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Composers of the Week:The Neapolitan Connection

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Donald Macleod explores the mid-18th-century Neapolitan opera seria and the cities and courts outside Italy where its composers flourished.
2/5. NiccoloJommelli (1714-74) in Stuttgart (Part 1)
Jommelli Didone Abbandonata (1753) (excerpts)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conductor Frieder Bernius Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Jommelli Didone Abbandonata
Conductor:
Frieder Bernius
Dido:
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Aeneas:
Martina Borst (mezzo)
larbas:
William Kendall (tenor)
Araspe:
Daniel Taylor (countertenor)
Osmida:
Arno Raunlg (countertenor)
Source: Radio Times

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