FULL La Principessa Filosofa (Carles Baguer) & I due gobbi (Marcos Portugal) Barcelona 2021 ESMUC Aleksandra Gladysheva, Maria Isidoro, Maria Amaral, Enrique Padilla

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: La Principessa Filosofa o Il Contraveleno, I due gobbi  
• Composer: Baguer Carles   
• Libretto: Carlo Gozzi, Portugal Marcos    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain  
• Recorded: April 30, 2021
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Aleksandra Gladysheva, Maria Isidoro, Maria Amaral, Enrique Padilla, Xavier Casademont, Alejandro López, Robin Sansen, Oriol Quintana, Sílvia Bel
• Conductor: Marzio Conti  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE MÚSICA DE CATALUNYA (ESMUC)  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  La principessa filosofa
  Musicological research sheds new light on preconceived ideas. In some way, by evaluating the manuscripts preserved in the Montserrat Music Archive, scholars have confirmed that what was thought to be the complete score of La principessa filosofa by Carles Baguer only includes the original overture. The rest of the materials turn out to be a false attribution: neither the characters nor the autograph correspond to Baguer’s work.

  After many hours of playing at reconstructing the puzzle, the misclassified work in this folder is parts of another opera, La confusione della somiglianza, o siano I due gobbi, by Marcos Portugal (1762-1830), an important figure in Portuguese musical heritage who ended his days in Brazil.

  Born in Lisbon, Marcos Portugal achieved, in his time, great fame as an opera composer, and I due gobbi was one of his first successes. Premiered at the Teatro degli Intrepidi in Florence on May 8, 1793, it immediately began to be performed in numerous theaters in European cities such as Dresden, Genoa, Padua, Turin, Amsterdam and London, and on June 16, 1794 it finally arrived in Barcelona, ​​at the Teatre de la Santa Creu, by the Italian company that offered this dramma giocoso.

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