FULL CORONIS (Sebastián Durón) Madrid 2023 Ana Quintans, Isabelle Druet, Victoire Bunel, Anthéa Pichanik, Marielou Jacquard, Cyril Auvity
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Coronis
- Composer: Durón Sebastián
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Real de Madrid, Spain
- Recorded: June 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Ana Quintans, Isabelle Druet, Victoire Bunel, Anthéa Pichanik, Marielou Jacquard, Caroline Meng, Cyril Auvity, Brenda Poupard, Olivier Fichet Orqueste Le Poème Harmonique
- Conductor: Vincent Dumestre
- Orchestra: Orqueste Le Poème Harmonique
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Teatro Real
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs
- Video Recording from: myoperaplayer FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The recovery of our Baroque opera patrimony had to endure a number of incomprehensible delays of diverse nature, but also because of certain prejudices, complexes and misunderstandings that are hard to eradicate. Fortunately, after a number of decades, this inertia is being reverted and never stops surprising us with unfamiliar and valued works. One of the latest and most spectacular is Coronis, a completely sung zarzuela attributed to Sebastián Durón – master of the Royal Chapel of Madrid – discovered by musicologists Raúl Angulo and Antoni Pon who have placed the piece historically in the court of Phillip V in the midst of the War of Spanish Succession, shortly before the composer’s exile in 1706.
With two intersected stories and a plethora of different types of characters –the nymph Coronis, the sea monster Tritón, the gods Neptune and Apollo and the amusing Menandro and Sirene–, this zarzuela of pastoral themes combines tragic and burlesque episodes and has a stimulating variety of stylistic registers – Spanish, French and Italian – in the form of sumptuous choruses, intense lamenti, animated ensembles and tonadas ( popular theatrical folksongs) which makes it one of the most surprising and enjoyable works of the Spanish Baroque repertoire.
Quoted from Teatro Real