Il pomo d'oro (ensemble)

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Il pomo d'oro is an Italian baroque ensemble founded in 2012 in the field of historical performance practice . The founder and chief conductor is the violinist Riccardo Minasi . In January 2016 Maxim Emelyanychev (* 1988) became the musical director of Il pomo d'oro .

Name, focus, success

The name of the ensemble refers to the title of the opera Il pomo d'oro by Antonio Cesti , which he composed in 1666 on the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Leopold I and Margarita Teresa of Spain in Vienna. This opera was the culmination of the pompous celebrations, during which 300 horses danced ballet and finally 73,000 fireworks were fired. Il pomo d'oro , with its numerous special effects on 24 different stages, with 50 different roles and ten hours of performance, was probably the most excessive work of the then still young genre.

The focus of the orchestra is on baroque opera , although Il pomo d'oro also performs instrumental music in various formations.

The ensemble 's first two CD releases - Vivaldi's L'Imperatore (with Minasi at the podium) and Vivaldi's violin concertos Per Pisendel with Dmitry Sinkovsky (as soloist and conductor) - were awarded prizes. a. with the Diapason d'or . In the year it was created, Il pomo d'oro also released three solo albums with the countertenors Max Emanuel Cenčić , Franco Fagioli and Xavier Sabata (all three conducted by Minasi), as well as an album with Venetian Barcaroles sung by Vincenzo Capezzuto . In 2013 numerous concerts were on the program, including a. in Paris, Munich, London, Lyon, Barcelona, ​​St. Petersburg, Versailles and Zurich, the first opera recording with Handel's Tamerlano , as well as a CD recording with Agrippina- Arien by various composers, sung by Ann Hallenberg , also conducted under Riccardo Minasi . The ensemble made its debut at the Theater an der Wien in December 2013 with a concert performance of Rinaldo and achieved substantial success with audiences and the press. In 2014 the ensemble recorded operas by Leonardo Vinci and Johann Adolph Hasse and in 2018 La Doriclea by Alessandro Stradella under Andrea De Carlo .

Individual evidence

  1. Biography of Maxim Emelyanychev
  2. ^ Crusaders in the Magic Garden , Opera in Vienna, December 14, 2013