NAXOS OPERA CLASSICS
Mayr / Simon Mayr Chorus / Hauk Due Duchesse CD
- SKU:
- 40373065
- UPC:
- 730099042277
- MPN:
- 8660422
- Condition:
- New
Description
As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century King Edgar. Huntsmen's and Knights' choruses and troubadour-like songs give great vivacity to a score that is both lyrical and dramatic. Mayr's compound of Viennese Classicism and Italianate melodic beauty, allied to his ambitious writing and a skillful libretto, produced an important and influential opera couched in his own unmistakable idiom.
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