Bello Tiempo Passato : The Earliest Neapolitan Intermezzo. [CD]

In the early 1670s, soon after Venetian opera became established in Naples, a series of comic figures began to inhabit secular but also sacred operas. These stock characters included the Neapolitan, the Calabrian, and the Boy, and all three, plus a fourth, The Spaniard, appear in a comic intermezzo inserted in the 1673 opera Il disperato innocente by the little-known Francesco Antonio Boero. This is the oldest surviving Neapolitan comic intermezzo, and, along with its Prologue, seems to have been written by other authors. This recording preserves a historically informed performance given by Antonio Florio with Pino De Vittorio that explores the tradition of the intermezzo in 17th-century plots.

1 sound disc

Edition Number: DYN 8016
Publisher Number: 8016
Distributor Number: DYN8016
UPC: 8007144080167