L'equivoco Stravagante Dramma Giocoso Per Musica - DVD

Rossini wrote L'equivoco stravagante ('The Curious Misunderstanding'), his first full-length opera, when he was only 19 years old. As it's title suggests, the plot of this dramma giocoso offers a panoply of absurdist stagecraft with one character being led to believe that the work's heroine is in fact a castrato trying to avoid military service. Full of his trademark buffo humor, melodious and musically buoyant, the opera ran foul of the censors and was swiftly banned, which accounts for it's rarity in performances and recordings. The new edition of the score used in this production corrects numerous previous errors.

I Shardana is set in a free Sardinia, an island where rigorous rules are in force and it's people do not tolerate invasions or spiritual contamination, a time when - as Ennio Porrino (b. 1910) specifies in the score - shepherds were warriors and judges, Inchwhen man did not believe in one God but in the power of the stars, and worshipped the dead and the watersInch.The opera's first drafts date from 1934-35, but the work only debuted years later, on 21st March 1959, at the San Carlo theatre in Naples, with it's final title of I Shardana and Porrino himself conducting. The composer would die suddenly a few months later.

Gorecki Chamber Choir Virtuosi Brunensis - L'equivoco Stravagante [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Released 2021 product/publication from Naxos