Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Elena (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 776 Mb | Total time: 73:38+77:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660462-63 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 776 Mb | Total time: 73:38+77:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660462-63 | Recorded: 2019
During the 1813–14 carnival season in Naples, Simon Mayr wrote a much-admired opera semiseria called Elena. The post-revolutionary Napoleonic era saw great enthusiasm for the rescue opera genre and Elena is a perfect example, in which a complex plot, based on French models, sees an innocent falsely accused of a capital offence. Mayr’s subtle accommodation of Neapolitan opera and Viennese Classicism ensures a series of choruses and recitatives that drive the action forward, punctuated with arias, romances, ensembles, lyric richness and moments of witty buffo colour.