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Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806)
"Cooperation between librettist and composer broke down badly [on L'isola
del piacere]. Martín y Soler was living in Da Ponte's house. He impregnated
a servant girl, admitted responsibility, and told [prima donna] Anna Morichelli
that he did so to protect Da Ponte, who was really the father. Then, having paid
off the girl, he 'went to live with Morichelli, and our long, pleasant, and
envied friendship cooled off.'" J. Milhous, G. Diderikson & R.D. Hume,
Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth Century London, Volume II: The Pantheon Opera
and Its Aftermath, 1789-1795, page 231, quoting from Da Ponte's Memoirs,
226-7.
Recordings
| Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806).
Il Sogno / La Dora Festeggiante (Complete Stage
Cantatas). RCOC. (2 CDs, September 2010).
Details. Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de
Cámara (RCOC). Nice/Apollo: Sunhae Im, soprano;
Egle/Minerva: Raffaella Milanesi, soprano; Fileno/Giove:
Magnus Staveland, baritone.
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FR |
DE |
 Vicente
Martín y Soler (1754-1806). Ifigenia in Aulide (Naples
1779). K617 192-2 (2 CDs, November 2006).
Background. Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de
Cámara. Ifigenia: Olga Pitarch, soprano; Achille: Betsabée Haas,
soprano; Arcade: Celine Ricci, soprano; Ulisse: Marina Pardo,
mezzo-soprano; Agamennone: Leif Aruhn-Solén, tenor. Great opera,
but heavily cut (only 98 minutes on 2 CDs!) and rearranged with
the ending the conductor thought the librettist should have
written. An annoying, closely-miked harp continuo makes
for a much less enjoyable listening experience than Otero's
equally bizarre rearrangement of Porpora's Angelica e Medoro.
As usual with K617, the only translation of the truncated
libretto is in French. This is the finest work by Martin y Soler
yet recorded. Hopefully someone else will be motivated to record
a complete and historically-inspired version.
UK |
DE |
FR |
JP |
| Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806). La
Madrileña o El Tutor Burlado. (Madrid 1778). Forthcoming.
Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano. |
 Vicente
Martín y Soler (1754-1806). La Capricciosa Corretta o La
Scola dei Maritati. (London 1795). Naïve Astrée AV8887 (2
CDs 2004). Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Christophe Rousset, Les
Talens Lyriques. Fiuta: Josep Miquel Ramée, baritone; Ciprigna:
Marguerite Krull, soprano; Lelio: Yves Saelens, baritone;
Bobario: Enrique Baquerizo, baritone; Don Giglio: Carlos Marín,
baritone; Isabella: Katia Velletaz, soprano; Cilia: Raffaella
Milanesi, soprano; Valerio: Emiliano González-Toro, tenor.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP |
| Vicente Martín y Soler (1754-1806). La
Madrileña o El Tutor Burlado. (Madrid 1778). EGT 687 (1 CD
1995), reissued on AVI 8020 (2001), reissued on Licanus CDM 0410
(2005). Carles Magraner, Capella de Ministrers. Violante: Olga
Pitarch, soprano; Pipo: Josep Miquel Ramée, baritone; Caballero
(Don Lelio): Antoni Aragón, tenor; Menica: Patricia Llorens,
soprano; Fabricio: Santiago Santana, baritone; Anselmo: Ricardo
Sanjuán, tenor.
UK |
DE |
FR |
JP |
 Martín
y Soler. Una Cosa Rara ossia Belleza ed Onestà. (Vienna
1786). Astrée E 8760 (3 CDs 1991). Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de
Catalunya. Maria Angeles Peters, Montserrat Figueras, Gloria
Fabuel, Ernesto Palacio, Iñaki Fresán, Fernando Belaza-Leoz,
Stefano Palatchi, Francesc Garrigosa. Substandard, live
recording of a mediocre performance. The non-HIP guitar continuo
sounds particularly odd in this classical opera. Despite a
174-page booklet, the singers' roles are not identified.
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UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
Books
| Dorothea Link. The Da Ponte Operas of
Vicente Martín y Soler. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Toronto, 1991). |
| Dorothea Link, L'arbore di Diana, a model
for Così fan tutte, in Stanley Sadie (ed.), Wolfgang
Amadè Mozart: Essays on his Life and his Music 362-373.
Oxford University Press, 1996.
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UK |
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Vicente
Martín y Soler (1754-1806). Ifigenia in Aulide (Naples
1779). K617 192-2 (2 CDs, November 2006).
Background. Juan Bautista Otero, Real Compañía Ópera de
Cámara. Ifigenia: Olga Pitarch, soprano; Achille: Betsabée Haas,
soprano; Arcade: Celine Ricci, soprano; Ulisse: Marina Pardo,
mezzo-soprano; Agamennone: Leif Aruhn-Solén, tenor. Great opera,
but heavily cut (only 98 minutes on 2 CDs!) and rearranged with
the ending the conductor thought the librettist should have
written. An annoying, closely-miked harp continuo makes
for a much less enjoyable listening experience than Otero's
equally bizarre rearrangement of Porpora's Angelica e Medoro.
As usual with K617, the only translation of the truncated
libretto is in French. This is the finest work by Martin y Soler
yet recorded. Hopefully someone else will be motivated to record
a complete and historically-inspired version.
UK |
DE |
FR |
JP
Vicente
Martín y Soler (1754-1806). La Capricciosa Corretta o La
Scola dei Maritati. (London 1795). Naïve Astrée AV8887 (2
CDs 2004). Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Christophe Rousset, Les
Talens Lyriques. Fiuta: Josep Miquel Ramée, baritone; Ciprigna:
Marguerite Krull, soprano; Lelio: Yves Saelens, baritone;
Bobario: Enrique Baquerizo, baritone; Don Giglio: Carlos Marín,
baritone; Isabella: Katia Velletaz, soprano; Cilia: Raffaella
Milanesi, soprano; Valerio: Emiliano González-Toro, tenor.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP
Martín
y Soler. Una Cosa Rara ossia Belleza ed Onestà. (Vienna
1786). Astrée E 8760 (3 CDs 1991). Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de
Catalunya. Maria Angeles Peters, Montserrat Figueras, Gloria
Fabuel, Ernesto Palacio, Iñaki Fresán, Fernando Belaza-Leoz,
Stefano Palatchi, Francesc Garrigosa. Substandard, live
recording of a mediocre performance. The non-HIP guitar continuo
sounds particularly odd in this classical opera. Despite a
174-page booklet, the singers' roles are not identified.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA