Cappella Neapolitana is an

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ensemble based in

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

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

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era.

The Cappella Neapolitana was founded in 2016 by the

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and conductor

Antonio Florio Antonio Florio (born 1956) is an Italian conductor, musicologist and composer. In 1987, Florio founded the Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini music ensemble, renamed Cappella Neapolitana in 2016. Biography Antonio Florio was born in Bari in ...

( it), who studied under

Nino Rota Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (; ; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) 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 Visconti. He also composed ...

, 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 music, Baroque composer. Biography Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (currently known as San Vito dei Normanni, province of ...

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.Fabris 2016. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'i ...

Giovanni Salvatore Giovanni Salvatore (c.1620 – c.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, N ...

and

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

, sometimes in cooperation with the musicologist Dinko Fabris. 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,

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(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' ...

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

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. 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'' -

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, arie, moresche 1530-1570. Luigi Dentice, G.D. da Nola, da Milano,

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, di Maio, et al.

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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 Baroque 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 ...

. ''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 Giacinto 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 include ...

, Barbella, Sabatino, and

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

oratorio An oratorio () is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble. Similar to opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguisha ...

: 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 Conservator ...

. ''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.

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

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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 Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading op ...

. 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, Grillo,

, 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), Ital ...

. (Eloquentia) 2009 *

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

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, tenor. * ''Il viaggio di Faustina''. Roberta Invernizzi. 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 und ...

. Bononcini, Hasse, Porpora, Mancini and Vinci. Glossa, ''in preparation 2012''. * ''Il Tesoro di San Gennaro''. Nicola Fago, A. & D. Scarlatti, Caresana and Veneziano. Glossa, 2013. * ''La Santissima Trinità (Oratorio, Naples 1693)''. Gaetano Veneziano. Glossa, 2014. * ''Ghirlanda Sacra: Early 17th-century music in Naples". Glossa GCD C80019, 2015.

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Cappella Della Pieta De' Turchini Early music groups Italian classical music groups Musical groups established in 1987 1987 establishments in Italy