BOERIO (attr.) Bello tiempo passato Comic Intermezzo from Il disperato innocente, Naples 1673

In the early 1670s, soon after Venetian opera became established in Naples, a series of comic figures began to inhabit secular but also sacred operas. These stock characters included the Neapolitan, the Calabrian and the Boy, and all three plus a fourth, ‘The Spaniard’, appear in a comic intermezzo inserted in the 1673 opera Il disperato innocente by the little-known Francesco Antonio Boero. This is the oldest surviving Neapolitan comic intermezzo, and, along with its Prologue, seems to have been written by other authors. This video preserves a historically informed performance given by Antonio Florio with Pino De Vittorio that explores the tradition of the intermezzo in 17th century plots.

Available in DVD (38016) / Blu-ray (58016) / CD CDS8016

Recording place: Domus Ars (San Francesco delle Monache), Naples, Italy
Recording date: 13th-14th March 2023

ARTISTS:
Conductor: Antonio Florio
Stage movement: Pino De Vittorio
Costumes designer: Annalisa Giacci
Props: Cappella Neapolitana
Set designer: Turtle Studio, Antonio Genovese and
Giacomo Sorrentino
Musical assistant: Angelo Trancone
Musicological advice and text reconstruction: Dinko Fabris
Organisation: Domenico Molino

Cast:
Napoletano, Pino De Vittorio, tenor
Calabrese, Giuseppe Naviglio, bass
Ragazzo, Olga Cafiero, soprano
Spagnolo, Rosario Totaro, tenor

Orchestra Cappella Neapolitana:
Marco Piantoni, Nunzia Sorrentino violins
Manuela Albano, cello
Franco Pavan, archlute
Pierluigi Ciapparelli, theorbo
Luca Tarantino, Spanish guitar and calascione
Angelo Trancone, harpsichord

World Première Recording

This is the earliest Neapolitan comic intermezzo of which we have record that was included in the manuscript, dated 1673, of the opera 'Il disperato innocente' by the composer Francesco Antonio Boerio and comes from the library of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory.

Revision and reconstruction of the manuscript are by Antonio Florio

First staging in modern times.

RELEASE DATE: 19th July 2024

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