Il disperato innocente or BELLO TIEMPO PASSATO (Boerio) Naples 2023 Pino De Vittorio, Giuseppe Naviglio, Olga Cafiero, Rosario Totaro
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il disperato innocente or BELLO TIEMPO PASSATO
- Composer: Boerio Francesco Antonio
- Libretto: Bernardo Pisani Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Domus Ars, San Francesco delle Monache, Naples, Italy
- Recorded: March 13 & 14, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Pino De Vittorio, Giuseppe Naviglio, Olga Cafiero, Rosario Totaro
- Conductor: Antonio Florio
- Orchestra: Orchestra Cappella Neapolitana
- Stage Director: Pino De Vittorio
- Stage Designer: Turtle Studio, Antonio Genovese, Giacomo Sorrentino
- Costume Designer: Annalisa Giacci
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Dynamic
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: DVD & BD
- Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
- Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
BELLO TIEMPO PASSATO
In the early 1670s, soon after Venetian opera became established in Naples, a series of comic figures began to inhabit secular but also sacred operas. These stock characters included the Neapolitan, the Calabrian and the Boy, and all three plus a fourth, ‘The Spaniard’, appear in a comic intermezzo inserted in the 1673 opera Il disperato innocente by the little-known Francesco Antonio Boero. This is the oldest surviving Neapolitan comic intermezzo, and, along with its Prologue, seems to have been written by other authors. This video preserves a historically informed performance given by Antonio Florio with Pino De Vittorio that explores the tradition of the intermezzo in 17th century plots.
This is the earliest Neapolitan comic intermezzo of which we have record that was included in the manuscript, dated 1673, of the opera ‘Il disperato innocente’ by the composer Francesco Antonio Boerio and comes from the library of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory. Revision and reconstruction of the manuscript are by Antonio Florio
Available in July 2024 on Dynamic DVD (38016) / Blu-ray (58016) / CD CDS8016