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Ut Orpheus Edizioni has been chosen as the exclusive publisher for the “Neapolitan School” project, created by Maestro Riccardo Muti, who is running it at the helm of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. For five years, starting in 2007, in association with the Ravenna Festival, the Salzburg Festival will produce, for the Whitsun Festival, operas, oratorios and masses of great musical relevance, rarely performed or even unheard.
In 2007 and 2008 Il ritorno di don Calandrino by Domenico Cimarosa and Il matrimonio inaspettato by Giovanni Paisiello were performed, together with La Vergine addolorata, oratorio for 4 voices and orchestra by Alessandro Scarlatti, and the oratorio for 5 voices and orchestra I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore by Adolph Hasse.
The Demofoonte by Niccolò Jommelli (Salzburg: 29, 31 May - Paris: 13, 16, 18, 20, 21 June - Ravenna: 3, 5, 7 July), in coproduction with the Opéra National de Paris, and the Missa Defunctorum by Paisiello (Salzburg: 1 June - Ravenna: 28 June) are on the programme for 2009.
The oratorio for 4 voices and orchestra Betulia Liberata by Niccolò Jommelli is on the programme for 2010.
Ut Orpheus Edizioni is publishing the critical edition of the music in the series “Naples and Europe”, in the section “Masterpieces of the Neapolitan School selected by Riccardo Muti for the Salzburg Whitsun Festival project in association with the Ravenna Festival”. Furthermore, the publisher is producing for each work the vocal score and the orchestral material on hire for other productions.
The first title in the series is Demofoonte by Jommelli (1770), edited by Tarcisio Balbo, published in April 2009. |
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