Max Emanuel Cencic Celebrates 250 Years of Porpora with Two Recordings
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Max Emanuel Cencic Celebrates 250 Years of Porpora with Two Recordings
OPERA ARIAS Out Today
GERMANICO IN GERMANIA Previously Released January 12
02 March 2018 (Toronto, ON) – To commemorate 250 years since Nicola Porpora’s death, Grammy-nominated countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic releases Opera Arias and Germanico in Germania via Decca Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Out today, Opera Arias is available online now, along with Germanico in Germania which arrived earlier this year on January 12.
Today’s release of Opera Arias is a solo album of Porpora Opera Arias arriving the day before the anniversary. It features no less than seven world premiere recordings including “Se rea ti vuole il cielo” from Carlo il Calvo. Cencic is joined by Armonia Atenea and conductor George Petrou. Listen to the album HERE.
Germanico in Germania is a world premiere recording of Porpora’s forgotten opera performed on period instruments. Cencic takes the title role alongside star soprano Julia Lezhneva and Capella Cracoviensis under the baton of Jan Tomasz Adamus. The 3CD set is out now. Listen HERE.
Both releases celebrate the work of Neapolitan composer Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) whose remarkable output includes many Baroque operas as well as oratorios, solo cantatas, motets, and vocal serenades. He was also famed in his day as a renowned singing teacher and his students included the castrato, Farinelli.
Cencic breathes new life into Porpora’s works. He offers fresh insights into the composer’s music through these new recordings and performs with skill and flair. As Opernwelt (Germany’s magazine for opera, operetta, and ballet) commented, “Cencic is blessed with the finest countertenor voice of our day.”
Max Emanuel Cencic - Germanico in Germania:
CD1:
- Act I
CD2:
- Act II
CD3:
- Act III
Cast:
- Max Emanuel Cencic (Germanico)
- Julia Lezhneva (Ersinda)
- Mary-Ellen Nesi (Arminio)
- Juan Sancho (Segeste)
- Dilyara Idrisova (Rosmonda)
- Hasnaa Bennani (Cecina)
- Capella Cracoviensis
- Jan Tomasz Adamus (Conductor)
Max Emanuel Cencic - Porpora Opera Arias:
- Se tu la reggi al volo (from Ezio)
- Torbido intorno al core (from Meride e Selinunte)
- Tu spietato non farai (from Ifigenia in Aulide)
- Ove l'erbetta tenera e molle (from Filandro-Philander)*
- Destrier che all'armi usato (from Poro)
- Chi vuol salva la patria e l'onore (from Enea nel Lazio)*
- Va per le vene il sangue from (Il trionfo di Camilla)
- Se rea ti vuole il cielo (from Carlo il Calvo)*
- Quando s'oscura il cielo (from Carlo il Calvo)*
- Lieto sarò di questa vita (from Ezio)*
- So che tiranno io sono (from Carlo il Calvo)*
- Torcere il corso all'onde (from Il trionfo di Camilla)*
- D'esser già parmi quell'arboscello (from Filandro-Philander)
- Nume che reggi il mare (from Arianna in Naxo)
*World premiere recordings
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