FULL Diana schernita (Giacinto Cornacchioli) Ascoli Piceno 1995 Sara Mingardo, Marilena Laurenza, Juan Cabero, Jose’ Fardilha
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Diana schernita
- Composer: Cornacchioli Giacinto
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Ventidio Basso di Ascoli Piceno, Italy
- Recorded: October 1995
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sara Mingardo, Marilena Laurenza, Juan Cabero, Jose' Fardilha, Giuseppina Piunti
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Ensemble Da Ponte con strumenti d'epoca
- Choreographer: Luigi Martelletta
- Stage Director: Maurizio Di Mattia
- Stage Designer: Alfredo Troisi
- Costume Designer: Otello Camponeschi, Fabrizio Onali
Information about the Recording
- Published by: sb1giovanni
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Cornacchioli was born in 1599, the eldest of six children of the tailor Fulvio Cornacchioli. From the age of eight, Giacinto was one of the choirboys of the musical chapel of Ascoli. With the approval of the bandmaster Federico Raimondi, he was trained as an organist at the age of thirteen. Thanks to his hard work and talent, his annual income increased and Giacinto was able to make a valuable contribution to his family’s household budget. On December 28, 1616, another organist was hired and it is not known what he did after that. All that is known is that he lived in Ascoli until 1619. It is likely that Cornacchioli sought his fortune in Rome with his friend Giacomo Francesco Parisani (April 30, 1602) . Giacomo Francesco was the son of a wealthy family based in Ascoli who organized theatrical festivals on their estate during the carnival season. These events usually involved singers and musicians from the Cathedral of Ascoli, which is how the two boys met.
Rome experienced a period of prosperity under the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII. While half of Europe was reduced to rubble and ashes by the Thirty Years’ War, many artists accepted invitations from cardinals and the nobility to work in Rome. It is likely that Giacinto Cornacchioli also followed the call of money. On June 6, 1629, his first opera Diana Schernita , a Favola boscareccia in five acts, premiered in the residence of the German nobleman Johann Rudolph Freiherr von Hohenrechberg .
In 1635 Cornacchioli left Rome and moved to Vienna . He served at the Bavarian Court in Munich under the Kapellmeister Giovanni Giacomo Porro as court chaplain, “musicus” and singing teacher. Later he was in the service of the Grand Duke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria . From 1640 to 1642 he travelled across Italy as a musician, always hoping to find a job as a Kapellmeister. He was repeatedly turned down. Disappointed, he wanted to retire to the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz near Vienna, but his name is not recorded in the archives there.
In February 1651 he returned to his birthplace of Ascoli Piceno in Italy, where he found a job as a music director in the cathedral of Ascoli. He then moved to the cathedral in Fermo in 1657 and then back to his hometown of Ascoli. The last document in which he is mentioned is a letter in which his brother Simone promises him an annual pension of 36 scudi.
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