Description:
Luigi Cherubini - Medea (2009) [DVD9 NTSC]
Label: Hardy
Catalogue No: HCD4038
Discs: 1
Release date: 2nd June 2009
NTSC/Color stereo Subtitles: English, Francais, italiano
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Medea), Giuseppe Filianoti (Giasone), Andrea Caré Cinzia Forte (Glauce), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Creonte), Erika Grimaldi (Prima Ancella), Luisa Francesconi (Seconda Ancella)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Torino, Evelino Pidò
Luigi Cherubini ; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries.
Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffmann (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée.
The opera was premiered on 13 March 1797 at the Théâtre Feydeau, Paris. It met with a lukewarm reception and was not immediately revived. During the nineteenth- and most of the twentieth-century, it was usually performed in Italian translation as Medea, with the spoken dialogue replaced by recitatives not authorised by the composer. More recently, opera companies have returned to Cherubini's original version.
The long-lost final aria, which Cherubini appears to have blanked out in his original manuscript, was discovered by researchers from the University of Manchester and Stanford University by employing x-ray techniques to uncover the blackened out areas of Cherubini's manuscript.
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