FULL IL TRIONFO DELLA FAMA (Conti) Bucharest 2025 Benedetta Mazzucato, Sophie Rennert, Maximiliano Danta, Martin Vanberg, Riccardo Novaro

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Il trionfo della fama  
• Composer: Conti Francesco Bartolomeo   
• Libretto: Francesco Fozio  
• Venue & Opera Company: Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, Romania  
• Recorded: September 6, 2025
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Benedetta Mazzucato, Sophie Rennert, Maximiliano Danta, Martin Vanberg, Riccardo Novaro
• Conductor: OTTAVIO DANTONE  
• Orchestra: ACCADEMIA BIZANTINA  
• Chorus: PURCELL CHOIR  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

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

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (20 January 1681 or 1682 – 19 July 1732) was an Italian composer and player of the mandolin and theorbo.

  Little is known about the biography of Conti. He was born in Florence, Italy. By 1700 he was already known as a theorbist not only in his native Florence, but also in other cities such as Ferrara and Milan. The fame he enjoyed by 1701 enabled him to obtain appointment as an auxiliary theorbist at the Habsburg court in Vienna with the same salary as the main theorbist, Orazio Clementi. At the 1706 carnival he made his debut as an opera composer with Cleotide, and in 1713 was appointed as a court composer. In 1708, with the death of Clementi, Conti was promoted senior theorbist, a position he held until 1726. In the same year he was elected a member of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna and in 1711 he was appointed vice-Kapellmeister (vice-maestro di cappella) in Vienna. In April of that year, after the death of his first wife, Theresia Kugler, Conti remarried to the prima donna Maria Landini, at that time the highest-paid singer in Vienna. She sang the main soprano roles in Conti’s operas from 1714 and 1721, but died in 1722. After her death Anna Maria Lorenzani was appointed prima donna and performed in three more of Conti’s operas. She became his third wife in April 1725. On 28 August 1723, Conti, as theorbist, took part in the first performance of the festival opera Costanza e Fortezza by Johann Joseph Fux. In 1726 and again during 1729 to 1732 Conti visited Italy because of health problems. He returned to Vienna in 1732, where he staged two new operas but in July of the same year he died. He was succeeded by his son Ignazio Conti (Florence 1699-1759).

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