''Il Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso'' (''Telemachus on Calypso's Island'') is an

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Fernando Sor Fernando Sor (bapt. 14 Feb. 1778, died 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the Romantic music, Early Romantic era. Best known for writing solo classical guitar music, he also composed an opera (at the age of 19), thr ...

. The

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was by Carlo Sigismondo Capece. It was first produced in

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at the Teatro de la San Cruz on 25 August 1797. It was revived in the same city on 18 May 1798.A. Miró Bachs ''Cien músicos célebres españoles'' 1955 p48 "FERNANDO SOR 1778-1839 Genial guitarrista y célebre compositor, nacido en Barcelona ... Sor no regresó a Montserrat; continuó sus estudios musicales y estrenó, con gran éxito, su ópera Telémaco, en Barcelona (1796)." The work was thought lost for many years until a score was found in the early 1990s. A 1999 production of the opera was mounted at the Teatre Principal of

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by the Symphonic Orchestra of Garraf under conductor Joan Lluís Moraleda i Perxachs. The presentation was recorded on the Moleda label and was released on CD in 2000. Other operas with the same title were written by Giovanni Vincenzo Meucci (1773), Charles Lepicq (1776), João Cordeiro de Silva (1787), Countess Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt (1792), and

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(1797).

Roles

Recording

Sor: ''Il Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso'' - Cambra del Garraf Orchestra, Conductor: Joan Lluís Moraleda, Principal singers: Yolanda Auyanet, Matreu, Joan Cabero, Odena, Recording date: 2003 Label: Edicions Albert Moral (CD)

References

Sources

* * Brian Jeffery: "Fernando Sor", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 17, 2008)
(subscription access)Zazzerino page on the 2003 recording
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