Franco Fagioli – Messiah (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:12:13 minutes | 2,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Château de Versailles Spectacles
Château de Versailles Spectacles has released a new recording of Händel’s “Messiah“ under Franco Fagioli‘s musical direction and featuring Marie Lys, Margherita Maria Sala, Pablo Bemsch and Alex Rosen.
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Franco Fagioli, Kammerorchester Basel & Daniel Bard – Anime Immortali (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:14 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Counter-tenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, exploring the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate, the recorded works share a sublime and profound character, demonstrating Mozart’s strong connection to the castrato voice. With this album, Fagioli finally returns to the composer that inflamed his desire to become a musician during his youth.
Franco Fagioli is one of today’s most esteemed countertenors, and makes his Pentatone debut. The Kammerorchester Basel returns to the label after a recording of Haydn’s Stabat Mater (2023) with René Jacobs.
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Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle De Negri, Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey – Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Complete recording of the original version (Vienna 1762)) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:15 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon/ARCHIV Produktion
This is a full recording of the original Italian version (the “Vienna version” from 1762) of Gluck’s beloved take on the Orpheus myth, Orfeo et Euridice PLUS extra music written by Gluck for later performances of his opera. It includes virtuoso arias for Fagioli and as such represents a brilliant showcase for him and a collectible item for connoisseurs.
This is Franco Fagioli’s first ever recording of a complete opera in which he sings the title role and since, the role has become one of Franco’s calling cards in recent seasons. It is known for its absolutely gorgeous music, including one of opera’s most audience-pleasing tunes, the uber-famous aria “Che farò senza Euridice”.
This version of the opera (by far the most popular one) appears for the first time ever on period instruments on DG / Archiv, hence filling a major gap in our catalogue and is a substantial project featuring one of our exciting new signings in one of his finest roles.
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Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle De Negri, Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey – Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Orpheo – Highlights Of The Versions For Vienna (1762) And Paris (1774) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:37 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon/ARCHIV Produktion
This is a full recording of the original Italian version (the “Vienna version” from 1762) of Gluck’s beloved take on the Orpheus myth, Orfeo et Euridice PLUS extra music written by Gluck for later performances of his opera. It includes virtuoso arias for Fagioli and as such represents a brilliant showcase for him and a collectible item for connoisseurs.
This is Franco Fagioli’s first ever recording of a complete opera in which he sings the title role and since, the role has become one of Franco’s calling cards in recent seasons. It is known for its absolutely gorgeous music, including one of opera’s most audience-pleasing tunes, the uber-famous aria “Che farò senza Euridice”.
This version of the opera (by far the most popular one) appears for the first time ever on period instruments on DG / Archiv, hence filling a major gap in our catalogue and is a substantial project featuring one of our exciting new signings in one of his finest roles.
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Franco Fagioli – Veni, Vidi, Vinci (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:09 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Too often confused by journalists or distracted music lovers with the Italian Renaissance genius, Leonardo Vinci was an eighteenth-century Neapolitan Baroque composer whose reputation stems mainly from his thirty-seven operas composed for the great castrates of his time and performed at the Royal Chapel of Naples where he was the successor to Alessandro Scarlatti. After his album devoted to a selection of arias by Handel, Argentine countertenor Franco Fagioli chose a dozen arias from Leonardo Vinci’s operas, more than half of which are world premieres. These include voluptuous and virtuosic arias from Il trionfo di Camilla, Gismondo, re di Polonia, L’Ernelinda, Alessandro nell’Indie and Medo.
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Franco Fagioli, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou – Rossini (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Countertenor performances of 19th century opera are a historical and, ultimately, true novelty. This said, for those who love the sound of the countertenor voice and want to give it a try, there are several factors that recommend this release by countertenor Franco Fagioli, with the small orchestra Armonia Atenea under George Petrou. First is that castrati were still around in Rossini’s time, although on the decline, and the composer was reportedly intrigued by their voices. Second, Fagioli, unlike the vast majority of other countertenors, studied bel canto singing rather than Baroque repertory exclusively, and a certain distance present in the work of other countertenors is absent here. And third, and most important, is Fagioli’s voice itself. Of the countertenors active today, he’s the one with the range, the power, the attitude to make you suspend disbelief and think for a moment that you’re actually listening to a castrato. He enters into the various Rossini roles represented on this recording, several of which were mezzo-soprano “pants” roles; this adds to the layers of identity-switching happening, and the parts hit Fagioli’s vocal sweet spot. A bonus is that several of these are from Rossini opere serie that are little played or recorded. Semiramide is one that has continued to hold the stage, however; sample one of Fagioli’s arias of Arsace, the Assyrian commander, and marvel at the power and dramatic sense. This could be a breakthrough for Fagioli in the crowded countertenor field.
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Franco Fagioli – Handel: Serse (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:49:50 minutes | 3,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The entire opera of Serse by G.F. Handel with Franco Fagioli as Serse – which makes it the first recording of the opera with a counter tenor in the title role.
Serse is one of the most popular Handel operas. It is set in Persia (modern-day Iran) about 470 BC and is very loosely based upon Xerxes I of Persia. Serse, originally sung by a soprano castrato, is now regularly performed by a mezzo-soprano or countertenor.
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Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo d’Oro, Zefira Valova – Handel Arias (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:50 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album isn’t just for fans of the counter-tenor’s voice – Franco Fagiolo being one of the stars in the market – but also for lovers of the airs from Handel’s operas, and any serious baroque orchestra enthusiast, the orchestra here being Il Pomo d’Oro. When you unite all these elements together in a recording, the result is spectacular. This record includes the thrills of big hits like “Ombra mai fu” from Serse or “Cara sposa” from Rinaldo, as well as a number of no-less-interesting rarities, which have the advantage of shining a light on the lesser played works of the caro Sassone. After all,Ariodante, Partenope, Imeneo and Oreste (the album covers the composer’s entire period of lyrical creativity) all have some great moments, and completely original airs, often loaded with the instrumental surprises that Handel arranged so well. And so, fans, if all three of the big elements are there – or if you are just curious to hear a very well made record – get stuck in!
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Juan Sancho, Franco Fagioli, Max Cencic, Valer Sabadus, Martin Mitterrutzner, Vince Yi, Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi – Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:53:56 minutes | 4,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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World premiere recording of an opera by a Neapolitan master fast gaining a first-rate modern reputation. Max Emanuel Cencic gathers around him an intoxicating mix of stratospheric countertenors, a top tenor, and an orchestra who sizzle with excitement for a performance of an opera that will appeal to all fans of Baroque music’s unsung heroes.
As March’s ‘Five Countertenors’ album showcased, the age of the countertenor is here. Max Emanuel Cencic has gathered around him, once again, a superb cast to bring Vinci’s “Catone In Utica” to vivid life.
“Vinci is the Lully of Italy: true, simple, natural, expressive”- for generations Leonardo Vinci was just another obscure Baroque composer: this first-rate recording will lift the veil from this forgotten genius of Italian opera, and from the mysterious all-male world of the 18th-century Roman stage.
With a libretto by Metastasio, Vinci’s opera was unveiled in Rome in 1728 with an all-male cast (women having been banned from the stage by the Pope): countertenors took the three heroic male roles as well as the female parts.
As well as Cencic (Arbace), the other superb countertenors are Franco Fagioli (Cesare), Valer Sabadus (Marzia), and Vince Yi (Emilia). Tenor Juan Sancho takes the title role (Catone) in this stage work about Julius Caesar’s defeat of the Republican forces led by Marcus Portius Cato in 46BC, and Riccardo Minasi, who enjoys a considerable reputation for his recordings of Baroque repertoire, conducts.
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Franco Fagioli – Pergolesi : Adriano in Siria (2016/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:57:53 minutes | 3,32 GBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria is brought to vibrant life on this triple album by a topflight cast led by Franco Fagioli, accompanied by Capella Cracoviensis under the baton of Jan Tomasz Adamus. New love, revenge, disguise, mistaken identity and passionate devotion: the full spectrum of Baroque opera seria is here in a brilliant, vivid setting of the powerful and moving story.
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