Sacrati: La Finta Pazza

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Mariana Flores sings expressively enough to persuade you, almost, that Sacrati is as good as Monteverdi. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2022 More…

Release Date: 27th May 2022
Catalogue No: CVS070
Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice

Autumn 2022

Opera
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Baroque Vocal

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Sacrati: Sinfonia

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Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Prologo: Loquace Diva (La Fama, L'Aurora)

Work length4:14

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Julie Roset (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act I Scene 1: Il porto è qui di Sciro (Ulisse, Diomede, Capitano)

Work length6:08

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Carlo Vistoli (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Salvo Vitale (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act I Scene 2: Or che son giunti al destinato affare (Giunone, Minerva, Tetide)

Work length7:38

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Julie Roset (soloist), Norma Nahoun (soloist), Fiona McGown (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act I Scene 3: Ombra di timore (Achille, Deidamia)

Work length11:08

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Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Mariana Flores (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act I Scene 4: Mi vedete già tutto (Licomede, Ulisse, Diomede)

Work length5:20

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Alejandro Meerapfel (soloist), Carlo Vistoli (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act I Scene 5: O formano gli Dei (Diomede, Licomede, Deidamia,Eunuco, Achille, Tre Donzelle)

Work length15:27

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Alejandro Meerapfel (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Mariana Flores (soloist), Kacper Szelążek (soloist), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Aurélie Marjot (soloist), Anna Piroli (soloist), Sarah Hauss (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 1: L’amante modesto (Diomede, Ulisse)

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Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Carlo Vistoli (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 2: Dolce cambio di natura (Achille, Ulisse, Diomede)

Work length5:19

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Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Carlo Vistoli (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 3: Ferma, o fatal guerriero! (Vulcano, Achille)

Work length2:44

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Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Alexandre Miminishvili (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 4: È giustissimo il duolo (Nodrice, Deidamia)

Work length10:11

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Marcel Beekman (soloist), Mariana Flores (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 5: Cedi, cedi, e omai confessa (Achille, Diomede, Ulisse)

Work length1:47

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Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Carlo Vistoli (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 6: Ardisci, animo, ardisci! (Deidamia)

Work length5:28

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Mariana Flores (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 7: Ove comandi, o Padre (Vittoria, Giove)

Work length3:19

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Fiona McGown (soloist), Alexander Miminoshvili (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 8: Spalancatevi abissi (Capitano)

Work length4:22

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Salvo Vitale (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 9: Oh Dio, che sento? (Diomede, Eunuco)

Work length5:01

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Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Kacper Szelążek (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act II Scene 10: Guerrieri, all’armi (Deidamia, Eunuco, Diomede, Capitano)

Work length13:44

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Mariana Flores (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Kacper Szelążek (soloist), Salvo Vitale (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act III Scene 1: Quand’ebbi d’oro il crin (Nodrice, Eunuco)

Work length4:50

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Marcel Beekman (soloist), Kacper Szelążek (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act III Scene 2: Non paventate (Licomede, Deidamia, Nodrice)

Work length8:14

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Alejandro Meerapfel (soloist), Mariana Flores (soloist), Marcel Beekman (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act III Scene 3: Per ritardar l’imbarco (Ulisse, Eunuco)

Work length3:28

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Carlo Vistoli (soloist), Kacper Szelążek (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act III Scene 4: Come riveda Achille (Deidamia, Achille, Capitano, Diomede)

Work length13:59

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Mariana Flores (soloist), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Salvo Vitale (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act III Scene 5: Se ad un altro si sposa (Diomede)

Work length2:08

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Valerio Contaldo (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

Sacrati: La Finta pazza, Act III Final Scene: La soverchia allegrezza (Licomede, Ulisse, Deidamia, Nodrice, Capitano)

Work length6:42

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Alejandro Meerapfel (soloist), Carlo Vistoli (soloist), Mariana Flores (soloist), Marcel Beekman (soloist), Salvo Vitale (soloist)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón

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14 December 1645: for the pleasure of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria, and attended by a young King Louis XIV, Cardinal Mazarin put on the first Italian opera in Paris. The Italian company, invited at great expense, performed Sacrati’s La finta pazza, composed in Venice in 1641. To capture the young 7-year-old monarch's interest, a flurry of monkeys, bears and ostriches was added!

The opulent set decoration by Giacomo Torelli, boasting machinery the likes of which had never before been seen in France, cemented the triumph of this “Feigned Madwoman”, which also featured the first major scene of madness in history: Deidamia must feign madness to keep hold of her lover, the famous Achilles, himself disguised as a woman to escape his fate! Leonardo Garcia Alarcon leads a beautiful and colourful revival of this foundational masterpiece for opera in France, a true miracle of music.

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September 2022

Mariana Flores sings expressively enough to persuade you, almost, that Sacrati is as good as Monteverdi.

June 2023

[Alarcón's] large cast is exceptionally impressive, having no weaknesses and multiple strengths. It is dominated, as indeed it must be, by the Deidamia of the soprano Mariana Flores...The performance not only eloquently demonstrates why La finta pazza became one of the most popular operas of the 17th century, but why its composer has been compared to Monteverdi, to whose L’incoronazione di Poppea (1642) Sacrati is believed by some scholars to have contributed.

Schallplattenkritik Autumn 2022

Leonardo García Alarcón has put together a top-class ensemble for the no less than nineteen roles and celebrates a rich variety of sounds with his Cappella Mediterranea. A shining find and a listening pleasure in a class of its own!

Sacrati: La Finta Pazza

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