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Siroe, re di Persia is the title of the opera written by Johann Adolph Hasse on Pietro Metastasio`s libretto. The same topic is also mentioned in the creations of Leonardo Vinci, Antonio Vivaldi or Georg Friedrich Handel dated before Hasse`s opus presented for the first time in Bologna in 1733 and then in Naples and other European musical centres. The discographic version launched in Dresden on 3^rd November, 2014, brings forward Johann Adolph Hasse‘s improved version, at the court where the author was Kapellmeister almost three decades. While  the  restored version of the initial score performed again on stage in 2008,  meant almost four-and-a-half hours of music, this interpretation (including  the 3 acts of compositional material that were not played in the eighteenth century) seems more concentrated, reflecting a typological  transition from baroque opera to the galant style.

A History Page of the European Musical Life

A theme  that sends us to the seventh century, at a time of war between the neo-Persian king and a Christian emperor who ruled over territories that encompassed wider Mediterranean areas (including Egypt); nothing new for the common  actions  of many performances of Opere  Serie, all according to tradition,– with various romantic plots that interweave configuring complicated character stories. When Hasse's opera was heard for the first time, two of the most famous castrati voices starred in it: in the main role - Farinelli and Caffarelli sang beside him, the two young soloists being joined by prestigious names of the opera theatres of that time. Understandably, they performed the vocal lines, their extent and  wealth of ornaments,  with special virtuosity; in short, the brilliance of the writing that  tests the voice of each  current protagonist, a deployment of the instrumental ensemble that does not only function as ... decor.

A remarkable current interpretation

A gallery of exceptional voices of the present, but not only : musicians who seek the spirit of the age and the proper palette of style, but providing the adequate freshness of modern utterances, that captivates  by its naturalness; while  the attention is not stolen by the fantasy of some mounting whose theme  is drawn from the story line of the 1001 Nights, by its colour and perhaps extravagance, the hearing stays faithful to the fabulous performances of this cast: Max Emanuel Cenci and Franco Fagioli - countertenors, Julia Lezhneva and Laureen Snouffer - sopranos, Mary-Ellen Nesi - mezzo-soprano, Juan Sancho - tenor and the "Armonia Atenea" ensemble, in the musical by George Petrou. An album premiere on the "Opera in Famous Performances" on Sunday, 2^nd November, starting at 19:30, included in the "Vote the Best Classical Music Album of 2014" campaign on Radio Romania Music.