Molieri (Mozart and Salieri Arias)

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Adam Plachetka is a widely experienced singer, especially of the Mozart roles heard here, to all of which he brings a handsome, healthy tone, firm diction and a sense of character. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022 More…

Release Date: 28th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: PTC5187022
Label: Pentatone
Length: 58 minutes

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Mozart: Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso (from Le Nozze di Figaro)

Work length3:52

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: Nell’impero di Cupido (from Falstaff)

Work length3:29

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Mozart: Madamina, il catalogo è questo (from Don Giovanni)

Work length5:24

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: Mi dica il mio signore (from La scuola de’ gelosi)

Work length4:08

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture

Work length4:27

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Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: Misero abietto negro (from Axur, re d’Ormus)

Work length2:09

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Mozart: Hai gia vinta la causa! (from Le nozze di Figaro)

Work length4:38

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: Se il tuo sposo e assai brioso (from La grotta di Trofonio)

Work length5:01

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Mozart: A forza di martelli (from La Finta Giardiniera)

Work length3:47

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: La Grotta di Trofonio: Overture

Work length4:52

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Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Excerpt, Mozart: Tutto e disposto...Aprite un po' quegl'occhi (from Le Nozze di Figaro)

Work length4:26

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: Idol vano d'un popol codardo (from Axur, re d'Ormus)

Work length1:58

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Mozart: Fin ch'han dal vino (from Don Giovanni)

Work length1:26

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Salieri: Fate buona compagnia (from La scuola de'gelosi)

Work length3:23

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo (from Così fan tutte)

Work length5:35

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Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Roman Valek

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Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. Despite the fact that this is obviously not true, Salieri’s popularity has suffered from this popular myth-making, and most of his operas have sunk into oblivion. Molieri brings the two composers together, focusing on bass- baritone arias from their opera buffas. Famous arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas are heard in a completely different light when paired to excerpts from Salieri’s Falstaff, Axur, La grotto di Trofonio and La scuola de’ gelosi. It also makes clear why Salieri enjoyed such success, as well as why great composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt all wanted to study with him. Given the importance of Prague for Mozart’s operatic successes, the music fits the players of Czech Ensemble Baroque like a glove, and Plachetka possesses the optimal combination of vocal authority and agility to sing these buffo roles.

Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. The Czech Ensemble Baroque is one of the most important period instrument ensembles of the Czech Republic, and was founded by Roman Válek in 1998. Plachetka, Válek and the ensemble all make their Pentatone debut.

Reviews

Christmas Issue 2022

Adam Plachetka is a widely experienced singer, especially of the Mozart roles heard here, to all of which he brings a handsome, healthy tone, firm diction and a sense of character.

February 2023

It’s well-crafted music and Plachetka sings with enormous character, but there’s nothing to persuade me that the opera world suffers due to a lack of Salieri on the menu...Plachetka is an accomplished Mozartian. Vocally, he reminds me of a young Bryn Terfel.

Molieri (Mozart and Salieri Arias)

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