FULL Beyond the Shadows: The Music of Mercadante New York 2025 Angela Lomurno, Annunziata Loporcaro

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Beyond the Shadows: The Music of Mercadante  
• Composer: Mercadante Saverio   
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University  
• Recorded: April 24, 2025
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Angela Lomurno, Annunziata Loporcaro
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Alfredo Luigi Cornacchia, PIANO  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: CasaItalianaNYU  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Commemorating the 230th anniversary of Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)

  To honor the 230th anniversary of Saverio Mercadante’s birth (1795, Altamura), We Are Puglia and the United Pugliesi Federation, with the support of Regione Puglia, present an evening dedicated to the composer, in partnership with Club Federiciano and the Coro Polifonico ‘Saverio Mercadante’

  Program:

  Music by
  Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)

  “Qual prece o voto”
  from the opera Orazi e Curiazi (Lomurno)

  La sposa de lo marinaro
  Neapolitan song (Loporcaro)

  La prece dell’orfano
  Chamber aria (Lomurno and Loporcaro)

  “Madre che in ciel sei”
  from the opera Elena da Feltre (Lomurno)

  “La posa…ma negli estremi istanti”
  from the opera Il Giuramento (Loporcaro)

  “Di mille colpe reo”
  from Le Sette Ultime Parole di Nostro Signore sulla Croce (Lomurno)

  T’amo
  Chamber aria (Loporcaro)

  Ah! che nel dirti addio
  Chamber aria (Lomurno)

  L’uocchie de nenna mia
  Neapolitan song (Loporcaro)

  La resposta a Retella
  Neapolitan song (Lomurno)

  L’abbandonata
  Chamber aria (Loporcaro)

  Salve Maria
  Sacred music (Lomurno)

  La Stella
  Chamber aria (Loporcaro)

  Born in Altamura, Saverio Mercadante learnt to play the flute from his older brother and moved to Naples around the time of the Parthenopean Republic and the Altamuran Revolution (1799). He became a virtuoso on the flute while training as an opera composer at the Naples Conservatory, embarking on a distinguished composing career that encompassed chamber music, numerous operas (which would bring him fame across Europe), as well as sacred music and popular songs. His first opera premiered at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples when he was only 24 years old.
  Mercadante received commissions from La Scala in Milan, as well as in Rome, Bologna, Venice (La Fenice), Turin, Mantua, Vienna, Spain, and Portugal. He served as Maestro di Cappella in Novara, was invited to Paris by Rossini, and eventually became director of the Naples Conservatory. He earned the esteem of Verdi and collaborated with him; however, his popularity waned after the mid-19th century. While his works are less frequently performed today, Mercadante’s compositions retain their artistic merit, attracting the admiration of connoisseurs and esteemed performers like Petrucci, Trapani, Griminelli, Pavarotti, Domingo, Pertusi, Vargas, who recognized their enduring beauty.
  The audience at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò will have the opportunity to enjoy some of his finest compositions, performed by Maestro Cornacchia (pianist, composer, and conductor of the Coro Polifonico ‘Saverio Mercadante’) and the choir’s soloists, sopranos Angela Lomurno and Annunziata Loporcaro.

   

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