MICHAEL SPYRES singing the title role in António Maria Mazzoni's opera ANTÍGONO showing in the aria "Tu m'involasti un regno" a range of three full octaves.
This was the first performance of the opera in modern times
Ensemble Il Divino Sospiro
conducor: Enrico Onofri
http://www.fischerartists.com/michael-spyres.html
no apparent sound track on this clip
raunchy9305 4 days ago
Fabulous, if anyone is wondering, the high note is G above high C (in mezzo-soprano range) and down to G below low C (bass-baritone range).
primohomme 1 week ago
Does anyone have a suggestion of where to find a score for this opera or even just this aria?
Grey159 4 weeks ago
AMAZING PERFORMANCE! BRAVO! do you have any more arias from this live opera please! I LOVE GALANTE-ERA REPERTOIRE! so sad it is sooooo rarely performed. I have Mazzoni's setting of Aminta, il Re Pastore; to my favorite librettist Metastasio!Mozart presented his take on it, and who can compete with that, so that is my favorite version, but sadly Mozart never did enough opere serie, as the genre style was slowly declining by then. I would have enjoyed his rendition of Antigono, even more so!
whistlenotelover 1 month ago
Eu também...
MrDivinoSospiro 6 months ago
@MrDivinoSospiro Eu sei, mas queria mais!
obizin 7 months ago
Michael "5th Element" Spyres...!! what else?
MrDivinoSospiro 7 months ago
@obizin why don't you say it to the National Opera Theatre that never invested in such repertoire? They should be the ones entitled to do such work and they are given money for this. I am just gratefull to have gotten the chance for this two recitas after 250 years of silence and then got it back with such quality.
MrDivinoSospiro 7 months ago
The final fermata is quite astonishing! I admire how Michael Spyres managed to perform it, although for most of contemporary listeners high-notes in falsetto have a weird effect. Thanks for posting this!
geigestimme 7 months ago
I watched this opera at CCB and you are the first to post a video of this unique aria - and for that I thank you - of an opera who had only two "récitas"... To only exibit an opera two nights is not just strange, is injust to the composer... His word deserved more attention.
obizin 8 months ago