FULL ADAMO ED EVA (Sorosina) Innsbruck 2023 Carlotta Colombo, Marie Theoleyre, Marta Fumagalli

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Adamo ed Eva - La caduta del primo uomo  
• Composer: Sorosina Pietro Nicolò   
• Libretto:
• Venue & Opera Company: Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Austria  
• Recorded: March 24 , 2023
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Carlotta Colombo, Marie Theoleyre, Marta Fumagalli, Massimo Lombardi, Davide Benetti
• Conductor: Marian Polin  
• Orchestra: Ensemble der Innsbrucker Hofmusik  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Südtirol in concert  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Eleonora Gonzaga, the third wife of Emperor Ferdinand III, established the tradition of the Sepolcri, the Holy Week oratorios in front of the Holy Sepulchre, at the Imperial Court in Vienna. Her daughter Eleonore, who resided in Innsbruck as the wife of the imperial governor Charles of Lorraine, introduced this genre to the Tyrolean royal seat.

The Innsbruck court music director Pietro Nicolò Sorosina created his oratorio “Adamo ed Eva” perhaps during his time as organist for the Dowager Empress Eleonora in Vienna or later in Innsbruck – the work has come down to us in the so-called “bedroom library” of Eleonora’s stepson, Emperor Leopold, who specialized in music He liked to exchange issues with his stepmother. Leopold, himself a composer and a real music fanatic, tried throughout his life to attract the best musicians to his court and to acquire the most interesting works for his collection.
The Venetian-born Marc’Antonio Ziani was a singer at San Marco and bandmaster in Mantua before Emperor Leopold appointed him deputy bandmaster in 1700. Under Charles VI Ziani even rose to the position of imperial court music director. His oratorio “La Passione dell’Orto” is preserved in a manuscript dated 1708 in the music collection of the Austrian National Library – a masterpiece that has so far received little attention.

Quoted from tiroler-landesmuseen.at