B&H launches Cherubini Edition at Martina Franca(July 2005) Boosey & Hawkes / Simrock launches its new critical edition of Luigi Cherubini’s works with the first modern stage performances of his opera Lo Sposo di tre e marito di nessuna (Betrothed to three, yet husband of none).
On 24 and 26 July the work is centre-stage at the Valle d’Itria Festival in the Puglian town of Martina Franca, a mecca for rare opera. A second production takes place in Tübingen and surrounding towns in September. Premiered in Venice in 1783, this early opera by Cherubini (1760-1842) is a satirical setting of Goldoni, creating a highly original blend of opera buffa, dramma giocoso, burlesque and commedia dell’arte. Simrock’s Cherubini edition will include new publications and performing materials of his operas from the 1780s, written before he achieved celebrity status in Paris with such works as Medea. The project, under the editorial direction of Helen Geyer, has been made possible thanks to new-found access to vital manuscript sources. The composer’s Italian operas were thought to have been lost in the Second World War when the scores were evacuated from the Prussian State Library in Berlin, but they were rediscovered in the Jaggelonian Library in Cracow and made available again to scholars. Performing materials for Lo Sposo di tre e marito di nessuna are now available on hire, and plans are underway for the publication of the full score and vocal score. For further information on the Cherubini edition, visit www.boosey.com/cherubini. > Further information on series: Cherubini Edition > Further information on Work: Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna, or Don Pistacchio > News Search |
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