La passione di Gesù Cristo (The Passion of Jesus Christ / 1749 Jommelli / @1730 Metastasio), oratorio (music), Rome premiere

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La passione di Gesù Cristo <Italian> / The Passion of Jesus Christ (1749) is an oratorio, set to music by Niccolò Jommelli.

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

Abstract

Performance history

Premiered in Rome [Italy]: 1749. Also performed in London (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1770) and Florence (1772).

Sound Recordings

  • 1983: CD avec le Società Cameristica di Lugano sous la direction de Arturo Sacchetti. Solistes: Sofia Mukhametova (Maddalena), René Jacobs (Giovanni), Gianni Puddu (Pietro), Carlo de Bortoli (Giuseppe d’Arimatea)
  • 1996: CD avec la Berliner Barock-Akademie sous la direction de Alessandro De Marchi. Solistes: Anke Herrmann (Maddalena), Debora Beronesi (Giovanni), Jeffrey Francis (Pietro), Maurizio Picconi (Giuseppe d’Arimatea)

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