Rossini: La Scala di Seta

Rossini: La Scala di Seta

8.660512-13 (Naxos Records, CD, 2 discs)

DDD
FIRST RELEASE (10 June 2022)

Playing time: 46'56"/41'29" - TT 88'25"
Tracks: 9 + 9
Booklet pages: 18
℗ 2022 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
© 2022 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
Main country of recording: Germany
Country of manufacture: Germany
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Rossini: La Scala di Seta published on 10 July 2022

Remy Burnens, tenor (Dormont)
Claudia Urru, soprano (Giulia)
Meagan Sill, soprano (Lucilla)
Michele Angelini, tenor (Dorvil)
Eugenio Di Lieto, bass (Blansac)
Emmanuel Franco, baritone (Germano)
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
Gianluca Ascheri, music assistant, fortepiano
José-Miguel Pérez-Sierra, conductor

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868):

La Scala di Seta (The Silken Ladder) - farsa comica in one act (1812) to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa

CD1

1 Sinfonia
2 Va sciocco, non seccarmi
3 Siamo sicuri. Uscite
4 Io so ch'hai buon core
5 Oh senza cerimonie ...
6 Tu vuoi? Va lesto
7 Vedrò qual sommo incanto
8 Io non so conquistare un cor di donna?
9 Sì che unito a cara sposa

CD2

1 Va là, presto, va là!
2 Sento talor nell'anima
3 Bellissima! il casetto è proprio nuovo
4 Ma se mai
5 Il mio ben sospiro e chiamo
6 Brava: vada, si serva ...
7 Amore dolcemente
8 Cosa? come? a me Giulia un randevù?
9 Dorme ognuno in queste soglie

Recorded on 20 July 2021 at Offene Halle Marienruhe, Bad Wildbad, Germany.

Gioachino Rossini was only twenty when he was commissioned to compose La scala di seta. It is one of four farsa comica operas which fed popular demand for this genre in Venice in the early nineteenth century and was wildly successful with its original audiences. Assisted by the silken ladder of the title, the diverting romantic intrigues of the narrative revolve around secretive assignations and obtuse misunderstandings, by no means helped by the presence of the slow-witted manservant Germano, in one of Rossini's most successful comedies.