Maurizio Benini, Ireland National Symphony Orchestra - Giovanni Pacini: Saffo (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 524 Mb | Total time: 78:01+59:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Label: Marco Polo | 8.223883-4 | Recorded: 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 524 Mb | Total time: 78:01+59:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Label: Marco Polo | 8.223883-4 | Recorded: 1995
Wexford has long been the home of lost operatic causes that speedily become winners. Giovanni Pacini’s Saffo is a good example. Widely acclaimed in its time (establishing itself as a favourite in North as well as South America), the opera gradually disappeared from view, as did the composer himself. Yet he wrote over 80 operas, and Saffo is generally considered his masterpiece: the first fully ripened fruit of a period, nearly five years long, of retirement from composition, during which he studied, thought and prepared. It appeared in 1840, the year of Donizetti’s La fille du regiment and La favorite, both of them written for the opera in Paris.