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FULL La passione di Cristo secondo S. Marco (Lorenzo Perosi) Tortona 1984 Claudio Desderi, Enrico Fissore, Giuseppe De Matteis, Umberto Scala
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: La passione di Cristo secondo S. Marco
- Composer: Perosi Lorenzo
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Cattedrale di Tortona, Italy
- Recorded: June 27, 1984
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Claudio Desderi, Enrico Fissore, Giuseppe De Matteis, Umberto Scala
- Conductor: MASSIMILIANO CARRARO
- Orchestra: Orchestra del Festival Perusiano
- Chorus: "Scuola Corale Municipale L. PEROSI" di Tortona, "Polifonica A, GAVINA" di Voghera
- Chorus Master: DANILO DUSI
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Maestro Carraro
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The scenes on the “Life of Jesus” movie are shown to the music.
Adapted from the book of John in the Bible.
The film The Life of Jesus, originally “The Gospel of John”, was shown in a special presentation at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival. This three-hour drama film faithfully follows the Gospel of John in the Bible. It is a production of the Canadian company Visual Bible International. The film was directed by veteran British filmmaker Philip Saville. The famous actor Henry Ian Cusick plays Jesus.
Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 – 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his twenties, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote, “It’s not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country.”
Perosi’s fame was not restricted to Europe. A 19 March 1899 New York Times article entitled “The Genius of Don Perosi” began, “The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen.” Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: “The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of the [19th] century, were just like those a decade earlier for Mascagni.”[2] Perosi worked for five Popes, including Pope Pius X who greatly fostered his rise.
Quoted from Wikipedia