Label: Warner Classics \/ Erato
\nDiana Damrau,\u00a0D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Rancatore, Daniela Barcelona, Giuseppe Sabbatini,\u00a0Genia K\u00fchmeier
\nRiccardo Muti,\u00a0conductor
\nLuca Ronconi,\u00a0director<\/p>\n
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In 1778 Antonio Salieri\u2019s\u00a0Europa riconosciuta<\/b><\/i>\u00a0became the first work to be performed at the Milanese theatre later known as the Teatro alla Scala. Despite this honour,\u00a0Europa riconosciuta<\/i>\u00a0(Europa recognised) fell immediately into neglect and remained unperformed for 226 years until 2004, when Riccardo Muti, then Music Director of La Scala, chose it to reopen the legendary theatre after three years of renovation work.<\/p>\n
It tells the story of Princess Europa, who is shipwrecked with her husband Asterio, King of Crete, on the coast of her native Tyre. She has returned there so that she can claim back the throne from her cousin Semele. At La Scala, Europa was sung by soprano Diana Damrau, who has appeared on numerous Erato recordings and DVDs. It is a dazzlingly virtuosic role that rises even higher than the Queen of the Night in Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Damrau\u2019s signature role at the time this recording was made. \u201cI love Salieri,” she has said. “He was an important man and a musical authority in Vienna, a teacher and an heir to Gluck as a successful opera composer. And, like, Mozart he was a dramatist in music.\u00a0Europa Riconosciuta<\/i>\u00a0is masterly in its construction and builds up step by step. It’s a thriller!\u201d Further vocal thrills were provided by another radiant coloratura soprano D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Rancatore, by two further Italians \u2013 the heroic mezzo Daniela Barcellona and the elegant lyric tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini \u2013 and by the creamy-voiced Austrian soprano Genia K\u00fchmeier.<\/p>\n
The spectacular, Classically-inspired production was created by two major figures in Italian theatre, the director Luca Ronconi (who died in 2015) and the designer Pier Luigi Pizzi. It showed off La Scala\u2019s new technical facilities to impressive effect \u2013 running to 25 rapid scene-changes in the two-hour course of the opera.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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