Mayr: L'amor conjugale Opera Fuoco & David Stern

• Giovanni Simone Mayr (1763 - 1845):
• 1 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale: Sinfonia 07:48
• 2 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena prima: Introduzione "Gira, gira, molinello" (Floreska) 02:14
• 3 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena prima: Allegretto "Vieni qua, vieni qua, figliuola" (Floreska, Peters) 02:11
• 4 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena II: Accompagnato "Sono qua mia cara, addio" (Zeliska, Floreska, Peters) 02:42
• 5 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena II: Cantabile "Caro oggetto d'un affeto il più tenero e contento" (Zeliska, Floreska, Peters) 02:28
• 6 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena II: Allegro "Lo son allegro, io son contento" (Zeliska, Floreska, Peters) 02:26
• 7 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena II: Recitativo "Si Malvino, sta allegro e gia da un pezzo" (Peters, Zeliska, Floreska) 04:27
• 8 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena III: Recitativo "Sempre più son contento" (Peters, Floreska) 00:38
• 9 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena III: Aria "Non so, cosa sia" (Floreska) 02:00
• 10 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena IV: Recitativo "Qui bisogna sbrigarsi" (Peters) 00:30
• 11 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena V, VI, VII: Recitativo "Siate pronti miei fidi" (Moroski) - Mio Signore (Peters) - Un espresso (Moroski, Peters) 00:47
• 12 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena VII: Accompagnato "Qui mi scrive" (Moroski) 00:54
• 13 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena VII: Aria "Ciel, che lessi quel periglio" (Moroski, Peters) 04:41
• 14 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena VIII: Recitativo "Lo vedesti" (Floreska, Zeliska) 01:07
• 15 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena IX: Recitativo "Floreska, ritirati" (Zeliska, Floreska, Peters) 00:35
• 16 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena X: Recitativo "Lode al Cielo, siam soli" (Zeliska, Peters) 02:06
• 17 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XI: Scena "Si, ne profittero" (Zeliska) 08:47
• 18 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XII: Recitativo "Lasciami, che ho da fare" (Floreska, Peters) 01:06
• 19 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XII: Aria "L'oro a un colore" (Peters) 04:20
• 20 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XIII: Recitativo "Sara ver quel che dice" (Floreska) 00:32
• 21 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XIV: Scena "Qual notte eterna, spaventosa!" (Amorveno) 06:17
• 22 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XIV: Aria "Cara immagine adorata" (Amorveno) 03:42
• 23 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XIV: Accompagnato "Oh Dio, dolce illusione" (Amorveno) 01:34
• 24 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XV: Recitativo "Animo, ma cos hai Paura" (Zeliska, Peters) 02:25
• 25 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XV: Romanza "Una moglie sventurata" - Prima stanza (Zeliska, Peters) 02:32
• 26 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XV: Recitativo "Ma che razza di canzon" (Zeliska, Peters) 00:13
• 27 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XV: Romanza "Scuopre alfin, che in nera tomba" - Seconda stanza (Zeliska, Peters) 06:40
• 28 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XV: Trio "Ah qual voce mi sorprende" (Amorveno, Zeliska, Peters) 04:11
• 29 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XVI: Quartetto "Fra l'orror di questo abisso" (Zeliska, Amorveno, Moroski, Peters) 08:24
• 30 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XVII: Accompagnato "Ecco tutto perduto" (Zeliska, Amorveno) 02:19
• 31 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XVII: Duetto "Ah, ti stringo al seno omai" (Zeliska, Amorveno) 05:20
• 32 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena XVIII: Finale - Sestetto "Vendetta, vendetta" (Zeliska, Floreska, Amorveno, Aderlao, Moroski, Peters) 03:33
• 33 Mayr: L'Amor Conjugale, Scena ultima: Ah, perche non t'apri, o terra (Zeliska, Floreska, Amorveno, Aderlao, Moroski, Peters) 03:36
• Total Runtime 01:43:05

Info for Mayr: L'amor conjugale

David Stern and Opera Fuoco have recorded Giovanni Simone Mayr’s L’amor conjugale in April 2021. This is the first recording of the full critical version of Mayr’s one act opera.

The story of Leonora, taken from the French novel by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is familiar to us through Beethoven's only opera. A daring wife disguises herself in order to be hired as a prison guard and thus rescue her unjustly detained husband. The same story also inspired Giovanni Simone Mayr, a German composer who lived and taught in Bergamo. An adept of Italian bel canto, he counted Gaetano Donizetti as one of his pupils. L'Amor Coniugale brought Mayr great success following it's 1805 premiere in Padua, and was revived many times. Love is not only at the center of the plot, but also of the score, which cleverly combines orchestral writing inherited from Mozart and Haydn with the Italian vocal tradition. Revisited by David Stern and his Opera Fuoco in a complete, critical version, this is an essential recording of nineteenth-century opera repertoire.

Chantal Santon Jeffery, soprano (Zeliska / Malvino)
Yu Shao, tenor (Amorveno)
Bastien Rimondi, tenor (Ardelao)
Olivier Gourdy, bass baritone (Peters)
Natalie Pérez, mezzo-soprano (Floreska)
Adrien Fournaison, bass baritone (Moroski)
Opera Fuoco orchestra
David Stern, musical direction

David Stern
is much admired in the worlds of music and opera as a fine conductor, a creator of inspiring original projects, an educator of the singers of tomorrow and an outstanding musician. His multi-faceted career has three main pillars: symphonic music, opera, and education.

As orchestral conductor, Stern has led recent performances with the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestras and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. He is a regular guest of the NDR Radiophilharmonie (Hannover).

In China, he frequently conducts the country’s three principal orchestras: the Shanghai Symphony, the China Philharmonic in Beijing, and the Guangzhou Symphony. In cooperation with the Shanghai Symphony Association, he is also the jury co-chair of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.

In the coming seasons he will appear with the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, the Kansai Symphony Orchestra in Osaka and the Marseille Opera Orchestra. He was the chief conductor of the Philharmonie Südwestphalen from 1995 to 1998. His orchestral recordings include French Romantic Cantatas with Karine Deshayes and Opera Fuoco Orchestra, John Field piano concertos with Concerto Köln and Andreas Staier, as well as works by Albert Roussel with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.

In the world of opera, his repertoire ranges from the mainstream to the eclectic. He is the former music director of the Israel Opera and of the Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland), and has worked with the Opera de Lyon, the English National Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera, among others. In the coming seasons, he will conduct the Maastricht Opera Zuid and the opera companies of Metz and Massy.

Stern has enjoyed collaborations with international stage directors including David Alden, Stéphane Braunschweig, Francisco Negrin, Robin Guarino, Sam Helfrich, Waut Koeken, Jakob Peters-Messer and Aron Stiehl, among many others. With Yoshi Oïda, he created iconic settings of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Britten's Curlew River for the Théâtre de la Ville and the Bouffes du Nord theaters in Paris.

In the field of special projects and education, he founded Opera Fuoco in 2003 as a platform for young professional singers in France, combining both a young artist program and a period-instrument orchestra under the banner of his company, which produces concertante, semi-staged and fully staged productions both nationally and internationally. David Stern and Opera Fuoco have been regularly invited to the Paris Philharmonie, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees, as well as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Luzern Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Shanghai Symphony hall.

A defining moment was his 2019 performance of Bach's B-minor Mass in Shanghai, Paris and at the Leipzig Bachfest with the Tölzer Knabenchor, Opera

Fuoco Orchestra, Andreas Scholl and Laurent Naouri as well as members of Opera Fuoco's Young Artists Program. The concert was featured in a documentary on YouTube entitled “Grasping and understanding the b minor Mass”.

Stern’s strong interest in working with and developing young voices grew out of the academy he launched with Stéphane Lissner at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival in 1998, the Académie International d'Art Lyrique. He has had regular engagements with young artists’ programs in Sweden, China and the United States, including productions with the opera programs of the Juilliard School in 2016 and an invitation to the Curtis Institute for 2023.

David Stern has recorded a wide range of opera repertoire, from Simone Mayr’s operas L'amor conjugale and Medea in Corinto, Johann Christian Bach's Zanaïda, Handel’s Semele and Jephtha and Florian Leopold Gassman Arias, with Anya Vegry and the NDR Radiophilharmonie (Hannover). His future plans include many exciting projects around the world, from baroque opera training in Nanjing to projects with Opera Fuoco, including Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, Così fan tutte, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and Mayr’s L’amor conjugale at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.

Stern received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and his Masters of Music from the Juilliard School. He is married to the violinist Katharina Wolff.

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