FULL Cecilia (Refice) Buenos Aires 2008 Negri
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Cecilia  
- Composer: Refice Licinio  
- Libretto: Emidio Mucci    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires, Argentina  
- Recorded: October 26, 2008
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Adelaida Negri, Miguel Geraldi, Walter Schwarz, Mariela Barzola, Sebastian Sorarrain, Roberto Falcone, Maria Laura Martorell, Matias Lechuga, Miguel Facal
- Conductor: Giorgio Paganini  
- Orchestra: Orquesta de la Casa de la Opera de Buenos Aires  
- Chorus: Coro de la Casa de la Opera de Buenos Aires, Coro Estable de Derecho de la U.B.A  
- Chorus Master: Victor Betinotti, Ezequiel Fautario, Martin Palmeri  
- Stage Director: Alejandro Atias  
- Stage Designer: Alejandro Atias  
- Costume Designer: Mariela Daga  
- Lighting Designer: Ernesto Bechara  
Information about the Recording
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs  
- Video Recording from: ok     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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Licinio Refice (Patrica, February 12, 1883 – Rio de Janeiro, September 11, 1954) was an Italian composer and priest. With Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi he represented the new direction taken by Italian church music in the twentieth century, and he left the popular song Ombra di nube (1935) as well as two completed operas.
His first opera Cecilia, about the legend of Saint Cecilia, created a sensation with its premiere in 1934 in Rome at the Teatro Reale dell’Opera, with Marcello Govoni as Opera Director; Claudia Muzio took the title role. His second opera, Margherita da Cortona, appeared in 1938. A third opera, Il Mago (1954), was left incomplete (within the first act).
Refice died in 1954 during morning rehearsals of Cecilia in Rio de Janeiro; Renata Tebaldi was singing the title role.