''Catone in Utica'' is a 1728 opera by
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 subsequ ...
. It was the original setting of
Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti.
Early life
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libretto of that name.
Recordings
*Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica
Max Emanuel Cencic
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(Arbace),
Franco Fagioli (Cesare),
Valer Sabadus (Marzia), Martin Mitterutzner (Fulvio),
Vince Yi (Emilia), Juan Sancho (Catone)
Il Pomo D'oro
''Il pomo d'oro'' (''The Golden Apple'') is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed ope ...
,
Riccardo Minasi
Riccardo Minasi (born 1978) is an Italian violinist and conductor in the field of historically informed performance.
Life
Born in Rome, Minasi received his first music lessons from his mother, studying modern violin with Paolo Centurioni and A ...
Decca 3CD 2015
[ BBC Music Magazine September 2015
Director Riccardo Minaso heats up hesense of rivalry - the variations get wilder, the yearning more palpable. All three countertenors are virtuosos, but Fagioli takes the laurels…the band contributes enormously throughout, its brash exuberance alternating with continuo realisations as delicate as they are original… superb premiere recording.]
References
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