Cappella Neapolitana is an

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ensemble based in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

and dedicated to the recovery of Neapolitan musical heritage, primarily from the

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

era.

The Cappella Neapolitana was founded in 2016 by the

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and conductor

Antonio Florio Antonio Florio (born 1956 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian conductor, musicologist and composer.Antonio Florio - Cavalli à la napolitaine, Opéra International, 2004 He studied under Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 Apri ...

( it), who studied under

Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

, as well as participating in events at the church Chiesa della Pietà dei Turchini. The name of church, conservatory, and now the modern cappella and music centre go back to the turquoise (Italian "turchino") shirts worn by the original children of the institute. The association between church, conservatory, and commercial opera productions goes back to the roots of the original Pietà de' Turchini, and the days when

Leonardo Leo Leonardo Leo (5 August 1694 – 31 October 1744), more correctly Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, was a Baroque composer. Biography Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (currently known as San Vito dei Normanni, province of Brindisi) in ...

used his students from the Conservatorio Pietà de' Turchini as chorus singers in his opera productions. Florio's work in recovering music which has lain unperformed for three centuries often involves reconstructing lost parts, or "discreetly recomposing" missing portions from larger works. A particular focus has been the recovery of the music of

Francesco Provenzale Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere ...

Giovanni Salvatore Giovanni Salvatore (ca.1620ca.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist. Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Nap ...

and

Cristofaro Caresana Cristofaro or Cristoforo Caresana (ca. 1640–1709) was an Italian Baroque music, Baroque composer, organist and tenor. He was an early representative of the Neapolitan operatic school. Born in Venice, his precise birthday is not known. After stu ...

, sometimes in cooperation with the musicologist

Dinko Fabris Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco Ca ...

. The concerts of the Cappella and other artists at the Centro di Musica are now widely acknowledged as a tourist attraction in Naples. The Capella commenced recording with the Symphonia label. Then entered cooperation with the Opus111 label founded by Yolanta Skura for the production of an ambitious and extensive series of recordings of Neapolitan music,'' Tesori di Napoli'', originally scheduled to contain 50 CDs. however this project slowed and then ceased after 2000 when Opus 111 was acquired by Naïve.

Discography

Symphonia * Vespro Solenne (Napoli 1632). G. M. Sabino, Majello, Bartolo. (Symphonia 91S04) 1993 * Cantate Napoletane Vol.I Oh cielo, oh amore. (Symphonia 91S09) * Lo Monteverde Voltato a lo Napolitano. Cerronio, A. Sabino, G.M. Sabino, F. Sabino, Falconieri, Stella (Symphonia 93S19) * Sui palchi delle stelle - Musica sacra nei all'epoca di Provenzale (Symphonia93S20) 1994 * Cantate Napoletane Vol.II Cantate, Canzonette e Dialoghi. Provenzale,

Gaetano Greco Gaetano Greco (c. 1657c. 1728) was an Italian Baroque composer. He was the younger brother of Rocco Greco ( c.1650 - before 1718). Both brothers were trained at, and later taught at the Poveri di Gesu` Cristo conservatory in Naples. Gaetano Greco's ...

(Symphonia 94S29) 1995 * Magnificat anima mea – Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600 Antonio Nola,

Fabrizio Dentice Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in Naples – 24 February 1581 in Naples) was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player. Fabrizio was the son of Luigi Dentice (1510–1566) who served the powerful Sanseverino family ...

("passeggiati da Donatello Coya"), Beatus Vir by Provenzale, Magnificat by Salvatore. (Symphonia 95138) 1996 * Cantate Napoletane Vol.III L'Amante Impazzito. Faggioli, Provenzale,

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(Symphonia 96147) Opus111 * Caresana. 'Per la Nascita del Verbo'. La caccia del toro. La tarantella. La pastorale. Florio (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol.1, reissued 2007. * Provenzale. Passione. Salvatore. Stabat Mater. Litanie (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol.2 * ''L'Opera Buffa Napoletana''. Leo. Arias from ''L'Alidoro. La Fente zengare''. Vinci. Arias. Florio (Opus111) 1996 Tesori di Napoli Vol.3. * Provenzale. sacred opera: ''La colomba ferita'' 1672 (2CD) Florio (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol. 4 * Provenzale. Vespro. 8 psalms. Caresana Vanitas vanitatum. (Opus111) 1998 Tesori di Napoli Vol.5 * Provenzale. Motetti – 4 motets for 2 sopranos. Avitrano sonatas. (Opus111) 1999 Tesori di Napoli Vol.6 * ''Napolitane'' -

villanelle A villanelle, also known as villanesque,Kastner 1903 p. 279 is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repe ...

, arie, moresche 1530-1570.

Luigi Dentice Luigi Dentice (1510 in Naples – 1566 in Naples) was an Italian composer, musical theorist, singer and lutenist who served the powerful Sanseverino family, and was father of Fabrizio Dentice (1539 – 1581), also a composer and lutenist. He was ...

, G.D. da Nola, da Milano,

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, di Maio, et al.

Ensemble Micrologus Ensemble Micrologus is an Italian group that performs vocal and instrumental medieval music, including both religious and secular pieces from the 12th to the 16th century in their repertoire. Through research into manuscripts, organology, and icon ...

and Cappella de' Turchini. (Opus 111) 1999 (Awards

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

de l'année) Tesori di Napoli Vol.7 *

Leonardo Vinci Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian composer known chiefly for his 40 or so operas; comparatively little of his work in other genres survives. A central proponent of the Neapolitan School of opera, his influence on subseque ...

. ''Li zite 'ngalera'' (The Lovers on the Galley) commedia per musica - opera buffa in Neapolitan dialect(2CD) (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol.8 * Jommelli. Veni Creator Spiritus. Jommelli,

Nicola Porpora Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included compose ...

, Barbella, Sabatino, and

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. (Opus111) 1999 Tesori di Napoli Vol.9 * Giuseppe Cavallo (d.1684).

oratorio An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is mus ...

: Il Giudizio universale 1681. (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol.10. *

Gaetano Latilla __NOTOC__ Gaetano Latilla (12 January 1711 – 15 January 1788) was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni (his nephew). Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservato ...

. ''La Finta Cameriera'' (Naples, 1738) 2CD (Opus111 30-275/276) Tesori di Napoli Vol. 11 * ''Festa Napolitana'' – Giramo, Giaccio, Piccinni, Negri, Cottrau. (Opus111) 2001 Tesori di Napoli Vol.12. * Jommelli.

intermezzo In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term ha ...

: Don Trastullo (Opus111) 2002 Tesori di Napoli Vol. 13 *

Paisiello Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini. Life Paisiello was born in T ...

Pulcinella vendicato (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol.14 *

Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverd ...

. Statira, Principessa di Persia. 2CD (OP 30382 Naïve) 2004 Tesori di Napoli Vol.15 * Provenzale. La bella devozione – Pangue lingua. Dialogo per la Pascua II. Caresana Missa a 8 Florio (Opus111) Tesori di Napoli Vol.16 * ''Napoli/Madrid'' - Vinci, Nebra, Petrini. Cantate e Intermezzi. (Opus111/Naïve OP 30274) 2007 Other * Badia. La Fuga in Egitto. Florio (ORF). recorded for radio 1996, released 2001 * Provenzale. Missa Defuntorum. Caresana. Dixit Dominus. Florio (Eloquentia) 2007 * P.A. Fiocco (1654–1714, father) Missa concertata quinti toni. Sacri concerti. Florio (Cyprès 3615) 2009 * Cantate napolitane del ‘700. Fiorenza,

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, Leo, de Majo,

Ugolino Ugolino is an Italian masculine given name that is a diminutive form of Ugo. It may also refer to: Artists and musicians * Ugolino di Nerio (1280?–1349), Italian painter active in Siena and Florence * Ugolino di Tedice (died after 1277), Italian ...

. (Eloquentia) 2009 * Leo. ''L’Alidoro (The golden wings)'' comic opera. Production at

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, February 2008, DVD

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- 2009 (Award:

Diapason d’or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

) Glossa * Caresana. ''L'Adoratione de' Maggi'' - 4 Christmas cantatas, Partenope, secular cantata, 2011*

Gaetano Veneziano Gaetano Veneziano (Bisceglie, 1656 – Naples, 15 July 1716) was an Italian composer.Julie Anne Sadie ''Companion to Baroque Music'' 1998 Page 77 "Veneziano. Father and son, who worked in Naples as organists, maestri di cappella and composers. Gae ...

. ''Tenebrae'', 2011 * reissue of 3 vols of Neapolitan cantatas 1991-96 as ''Il Canto della Sirena'' 2011 Provenzale et al. Glossa GCD 922603 (3 CDs Reissue of Symphonia SY91S09, SY94S29, & SY96147).

Pino De Vittorio Giuseppe De Vittorio, commonly known as Pino De Vittorio (born 24 December 1954) is an Italian tenor and actor. He has also sung as a sopranist. In 1976 with Angelo Savelli he founded La Compagnia Pupi e Fresedde which performed Apulian folk music ...

, tenor. * ''Il viaggio di Faustina''.

Roberta Invernizzi Roberta Invernizzi (born 1966, in Milan) is an Italian soprano. She originally studied piano and double bass before turning to singing. She specialises in early music from the baroque and classical period of music. She has sung in many operas ...

. Arias for

Faustina Bordoni Faustina Bordoni (30 March 1697 – 4 November 1781) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. In Hamburg, Germany, the Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is dedicated to her husband and partly to Bordoni. Early career She was born in Venice and brought up unde ...

. Bononcini, Hasse, Porpora, Mancini and Vinci. Glossa, ''in preparation 2012''. * ''Il Tesoro di San Gennaro''. Nicola Fago, A. & D. Scarlatti, Caresana and Veneziano. Glossa.

References

External links

* Italian Wikipedia entry for Church of the Pietà dei Turchini * Italian homepage o
L’Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de Turchini
* Italian homepage o
Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de' Turchini
* French Wikipedia entry for

* English:

List of early music ensembles An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier – broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are adv ...

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