Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan De' Tartari
Mirco Palazzi (Cublai), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (TImur), Marie Lys (Alzima), Fabio Capitanucci (Orcano); Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Leading the show is Mirco Palazzi as the wilful despot Kublai Khan himself: courtiers plotting for or against him (Fabio Capitanucci, Äneas Humm), his childish son (Lauranne Oliva), young lovers...
Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan De' Tartari
Mirco Palazzi (Cublai), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (TImur), Marie Lys (Alzima), Fabio Capitanucci (Orcano); Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Leading the show is Mirco Palazzi as the wilful despot Kublai Khan himself: courtiers plotting for or against him (Fabio Capitanucci, Äneas Humm), his childish son (Lauranne Oliva), young lovers...
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Salieri's ‘Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari’ (1788) displays all its heroic-comic loquaciousness, for Giambattista Casti's libretto barely conceals its piquant parody of the European monarchical courts behind its plot set in Cathay. The figure of the Great Khan, in particular, is a droll evocation of Peter the Great. Censored even before its premiere, the work waited to be resurrected in its original version with the help of Les Talens Lyriques and their conductor Christophe Rousset, ardent defenders of Salieri's music.
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineJuly 2025Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2025
July 2025
Leading the show is Mirco Palazzi as the wilful despot Kublai Khan himself: courtiers plotting for or against him (Fabio Capitanucci, Äneas Humm), his childish son (Lauranne Oliva), young lovers (Marie Lys, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani) and Italian schemers (Giorgio Caudore, Ana Quintans) make up the rest of the characters in this colourful, crazy entertainment.
July 2025
Not for the first time, Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques produce a revelatory exhibition of Salieri’s underappreciated qualities.
24th April 2025
Rousset’s singers really let rip. Braggadocio oozes from Mirco Palazzi’s Cublai, the pleasure-seeking ruler of Cathay. Marie Lys is on fire too as Alzima, the Bengal princess needed for his dynastic plan...True, it’s long (159 minutes), yet fast-moving, with music that might not make Mozart jealous but still earns the right to be heard and enjoyed.
