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𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢̀ 𝗝𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗞 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼̀ 𝗝𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻: 𝟭𝟬 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝟭𝟰, 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮, 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗱: 𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟳𝟳𝟰, 𝗡𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 Among the great reforming figures of eighteenth-century opera,…

𝗝𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 - 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼 - 𝗜𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 - 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝘀 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁 https://www.patreon.com/posts/jomelli-per-il-156001703?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 𝗝𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶’𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗶̀ 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼 belongs to his Roman sacred period and was written for…

# **Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779)** **Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta** was one of the most important reformers of 18th-century opera, standing at the crossroads between **Italian opera seria** and the dramatic reforms that later culminated…

# **Francesco Feo — A Life** *The forgotten master of the Neapolitan Baroque* Francesco Feo (1691–1761) lived during one of the most brilliant periods in Italian musical history, when Naples stood at the center…

# **Johann Adolf Hasse – *****L’Olimpiade***** (1756 / versions 1735–1762) - Frieder Bernius** *A Masterwork of Opera Seria, Olympian Virtuosity, and Metastasian Drama * [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/hasse-lolimpiade-145081214?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/hasse-lolimpiade-145081214?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/hasse-lolimpiade-145081214?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **1. The Libretto: Metastasio’s Most Perfect Dramatic Architecture**…

𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝗖𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗔 (𝟭𝟳𝟰𝟵–𝟭𝟴𝟬𝟭) 𝗟’𝗢𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗱𝗲 https://www.patreon.com/ClassicMusicComposersGroup/posts/cimarosa-andrea-163220845?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝟮 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 Vicenza, 1784 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗼: 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁í𝗻𝗲𝘇, soprano — Aristea 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗭𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗹ü𝗵, soprano — Argene 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗸, mezzo-soprano — Megacle 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗻,…

𝗙𝗜𝗙𝗧𝗬 𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟳𝟱𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟴𝟮𝟱 — 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 The 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 was not merely the age of 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝗱𝗻, 𝗠𝗼𝘇𝗮𝗿𝘁 and 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻.…

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 The passage from the Baroque world to the Classical one was not a sudden revolution that happened in a single year, nor…

# **The Transition from Baroque to Classicism** ## The real driving composers and why ## **Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)** — the birth of Classical keyboard language Scarlatti is one of the most revolutionary figures in…

# **Catholicism and Freemasonry** **(Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) The attitude of educated and high-ranking Catholics in the eighteenth century toward religion was aptly captured—long before Mozart—by “Madame,” **Élisabeth Charlotte**,…

# **Bach J.C - Missa da Requiem - Miserere - Hans Christoph Rademann ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-j-c-missa-146666360?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-j-c-missa-146666360?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Johann Christian Bach’s sacred works are far less numerous than those of his father, yet they are **exceptionally revealing**…

# **Johann Christian Bach - Zanaida - Opera - 1763 - Opera Fuoco - David Stern** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-christian-146666131?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-christian-146666131?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *Zanaida* is one of the **most ambitious and revealing operas** by Johann Christian Bach, the so-called **“London…

# **Antonio Caldara - La Passione di Gesù Cristo Signor Nostro - Fabio Biondi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-caldara-145173511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-caldara-145173511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *A monumental Venetian–Austrian oratorio, where Pietro Metastasio’s poetry meets Caldara’s spiritual depth* ## **1. A Masterpiece Born at…

# **Francesco Feo - San Francesco di Sales - Oratorio - Bologna 1734 - Fabio Biondi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/francesco-feo-di-145171436?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/francesco-feo-di-145171436?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *A luminous masterpiece of Neapolitan sacred drama* Francesco Feo (1691–1761), one of the central composers of…