FULL Leonor (Fonseca) Recife 2019 Festival de Ópera de Pernambuco

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Leonor   
• Composer: Fonseca Euclides   
• Libretto:  Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro de Santa Isabel, Recife, Brazil, Festival de Ópera de Pernambuco  
• Recorded: 2019
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers:
• Conductor: Wendell Kettle  
• Orchestra: Sinfonieta UFPE  
• Chorus: Academia de Ópera e Repertório da UFPE, Coro Infanto-juvenil da Ópera de Papel  
• Stage Director: Wendell Kettle  
• Stage Designer: Marcondes Lima  
• Costume Designer: Marcondes Lima  

Information about the Recording

• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Quote from revistacontinente.com.br

Leonor , a lyrical drama in an act with a vernacular libretto by José Afonso de Araújo, about the legend of the jasmine sleeves, takes place on the island of Itamaracá and was written for a mixed choir, orchestra and three soloists: Leonor (dramatic soprano), D. Antônio, his beloved (tenor), and D. Nuno Coutinho, the protagonist’s brother (bass). The musical drama premiered on September 7, 1883, produced by Clube Carlos Gomes – which Euclides had founded in honor of the already renowned Campinas operist – and with the presence of Nepomuceno on the first violins.

Leonor’s reduction for singing and piano and some instrumental parts are now found in the library of the Instituto Ricardo Brennand, along with about a dozen arrangements made by Fonseca and 71 original works, including three operettas and the Ave Libertas , anthem composed for raise funds for the abolitionist cause. The collection, gathered by historian Zilda Fonseca, was sent by her to her friend and historian Leonardo Dantas, who assigned it to the institute. Before she died, Zilda, the widow of a grandson of the musician, reported in her book Euclides Fonseca: Half a century of musical life in Recife (Ed. Universitária, 1996) that many other works were mentioned in the press, but were lost.