Bruno de Sa: Roma Travestita | Erato 9029661980

Bruno de Sa: Roma Travestita

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 9029661980

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 16th September 2022

Contents

Works

Arena, Giuseppe

Achille in Sciro
» Del sen gl'ardori nessun mi vanti

Capua, Rinaldo di

Vologeso, re de' Parti
» Nell'orror di notte oscura

Cocchi, Gioacchino

Adelaide
» Nobil onda
» Timida pastorella

Conforto, Nicola

Livia Claudia Vestale
» Padre, germano... Vadasi pure a morte

Fajer, Francisco Javier Garcia

Pompeo Magno in Armenia
» Grato oblio, soave pace

Galuppi, Baldassare

Evergete
» Qual pellegrino errante

Piccinni, Niccolo

La buona figliuola
» Furie di donna irata

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Griselda
» Di che sogno, o che deliro
» Mi rivedi, o selva ombrosa

Vinci, Leonardo

Farnace
» Lasciero d'essere spietata

Vivaldi, Antonio

Giustino, RV717
» Per noi soave e bella
» Senza l'amato ben

Artists

Bruno de Sa (sopranist)
Il Pomo d’Oro

Conductor

Francesco Corti

Works

Arena, Giuseppe

Achille in Sciro
» Del sen gl'ardori nessun mi vanti

Capua, Rinaldo di

Vologeso, re de' Parti
» Nell'orror di notte oscura

Cocchi, Gioacchino

Adelaide
» Nobil onda
» Timida pastorella

Conforto, Nicola

Livia Claudia Vestale
» Padre, germano... Vadasi pure a morte

Fajer, Francisco Javier Garcia

Pompeo Magno in Armenia
» Grato oblio, soave pace

Galuppi, Baldassare

Evergete
» Qual pellegrino errante

Piccinni, Niccolo

La buona figliuola
» Furie di donna irata

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Griselda
» Di che sogno, o che deliro
» Mi rivedi, o selva ombrosa

Vinci, Leonardo

Farnace
» Lasciero d'essere spietata

Vivaldi, Antonio

Giustino, RV717
» Per noi soave e bella
» Senza l'amato ben

Artists

Bruno de Sa (sopranist)
Il Pomo d’Oro

Conductor

Francesco Corti

About

Bruno de Sá’s Erato debut, Roma travestita, could hardly be more striking. The young Brazilian singer – a rare example of a male soprano – explores a period when women were banned from the public stages of Rome and men assumed female operatic roles. Moreover, eight of the thirteen arias on the album are receiving their world-premiere recording.

Opera magazine has described Bruno de Sá as “astounding … with a high register of soprano purity. A true male soprano able to command thrillingly ringing tones …” In partnership with Il Pomo d’Oro and conductor Francesco Corti he performs arias from the 18th century: by Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Vinci, Galuppi and Piccinni, and by the rarely heard Capua, Arena, Cocchi, Conforto and García Fajer.

On stage, Bruno de Sá has already sung such roles as Sesto in both Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and the Little Mermaid in a new Hans Christian Andersen opera by Jherek Bischoff. “My goal is to sing what my voice allows me to sing,” he says. “It doesn’t matter which boxes it ticks or which gender it is.”

Reviews

This solo debut doesn’t so much throw down the gauntlet as hurl it into the listener’s face. Without so much as a nice-to-meet-you recitative, let alone an orchestral introduction (a single, snatched bar is all we get), Brazilian sopranist Bruno de Sá is off, joining the runaway semiquaver train of Alessandro Scarlatti’s ‘Dì, che sogno’ at top speed and dizzying altitude. It’s a bold start to ‘Roma travestita’ – a heady combination of new talent and new repertoire (almost half the tracks are premiere recordings) that’s hard to fault. ... Sopranists may be the next big thing, but it’ll be a rare one indeed who can beat this.  Alexandra Coghlan
Gramophone December 2022
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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