La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Jesus Christ / 1777 Salieri / @1730 Metastasio), oratorio (music), Vienna premiere (cast)

La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo <Italian> / The Passion of Jesus Christ (1777) is an oratorio, set to music by Antonio Salieri.

~ @1730 libretto by Pietro Metastasio; see La passione di Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Jesus Christ / 1730 Metastasio), libretto (oratorio).

Abstract

"Azione sacra per soli, coro, ed orchestra." Written in 1776, it was completed and first performed in 1777.

Cast

• Caterina Cavalieri = Mary Magdalene (soprano)
• Vincenzo Righini = Peter (tenor)

Performance history

Premiered in Vienna, Austria: Tonkünstler-Societät, 18 & 23 December 1777.

The work was very popular with contemporary musicians, including performances in Leipzig (1786), Copenhagen (1790), Leipzig (1791) and Berlin (1793). Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach performed the piece in Hamburg.

More recently, the work has been increasingly popular thanks to two available print editions, including 1995 in Verona, 1999 and 2002 in Heidelberg, 2000 in Vienna, 2002 in Brno, 2003 in Cologne, 2006 in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Leverkusen, and in Bitonto, Brindisi and Teatro la Fenice in Venice as well as Salieri's hometown of Legnago, 2007 at the Festival Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, Brindisi and Cerignola as well as in the French Caen, 2008 in the Dresden Frauenkirche .

Sound recordings

• La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ / 1995 Turco / @1777 Salieri), Verona production, sound recording (oratorio) -- Daniela Citino, soprano ; Maria Teresa Toso, alto ; Nikola Yovanovitch, tenor ; Mario Scardoni, bass ; Giovanna Scardoni, voce recitante ; Cappella musicale della Cattedrale di Verona ; Alberto Turco, conductor. -- Recorded live at the the Cattedrale di Verona, Mar. 30, 1995.

• 2004: CD avec le Neuen Orchester et le Chorus Musicus Köln sous la direction de Christoph Spering. Solistes: Melba Ramos (Soprano), Franziska Gottwald (Alto), Florian Mock (Ténor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Basse)92.

• 2006: CD avec le Salieri Chamber Orchestra et le Wiener Jeunesse-Chor sous la direction de Giovanni Pelliccia. Solistes: Michela Sburlati (Maddalena), Matteo Lee Yeong Hwa (Pietro), Chiarastella Onorati (Giovanni), Roberto Abbondanza (Basse)93.

External links

• Wiki.en -- Wiki.de
• Opening Night! (1777)