VA - Hit Overseas Auto Issue (2012)
Genre: Tracks | 100 Tracks | MP3 256 kbps | 676 MB

Landi Stefano - Il Sant' Alessio (William Christie, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic) [2008]
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR Auto Letterboxed | Italiano (LPCM, 2 ch); (DTS, 5 ch); (Dolby AC3, 5 ch) | 7,00Gb+4,17Gb (DVD9 +DVD5)
Classical | Label: Virgin | Sub: English, Deutsch, Espanol | 162 min | +3% Recovery

" Il Sant'Alessio began life in the tradition of Jesuit school plays, designed to emphasize the spiritual courage of saints. Cardinal Francesco Barberini and his brother, Taddeo, Prince Prefect of Rome, decided to put on one of these in a private showing at their splendid new family palace. They wanted to utilize the new musical form built around the heightened recitative style, what we would now call opera. The libretto was commissioned from a 30-year-old prelate, Giulio Rospigliosi, who would in time become Pope Clement IX, while the music was entrusted to Stefano Landi, a Roman contralto and composer who enjoyed substantial religious patronage throughout his career. As in the school plays, so here: castratos sang several of the major roles, while boy sopranos took the rest of the parts.

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