Jone, o l’ultimo giorno di Pompei

Orchestra Sinfonica Municipale di Caracas, dir. Edoardo MULLER. Caracas1981.

ADELAIDE NEGRI, BRUNO SEBASTIAN, GIAMPIERO MASTROMEI, STELLA SILVA

Errico Petrella, was a Sicilian-Neapolitan composer, a contemporary of Verdi and Wagner and a maverick student of the Neapolitan school. Jone was composed for the 1857 carnival-Lent season of La Fenice in Venice, but was included instead in the 1857-58 season at La Scala and it made its debut in Milan’s leading opera house on January 26, 1858. The libretto, based on the historical novel, The Last Days of Pompei, by Bulwer-Lytton, is set in Pompei in 79 ad and was put into fairly elegant verse by the Venetian poet and patriot Giovanni Peruzzini. It tells the story of two young Greeks, Glauco and Jone, whose love is obstructed by the plotting of Arbace, the high priest of Isis. The plot mirrored the preferences of the day and was a percursor to the pro-oriental and pseudo-archeological trend that would characterize so much of European opera in the second half of the century.

Disc: 1

1. Sinfonia (Live) 08:33
2. Act I: Vuote so 02:47
3. Act I: Canti ch 02:57
4. Act I: Ahime!.. 01:49
5. Act I: Abbandon 02:15
6. Act I: Lo brami 02:55
7. Act I: È un gio 07:37
8. Act I: Oh, qual 02:21
9. Act I: Nel sol 02:57
10. Act I: L'amo, l 02:18
11. Act I: Godo in 01:49
12. Act I: Fra danz 03:21
13. Act I: Una schi 01:23
14. Act I: Quella s 04:24
15. Act II: Sotto l 03:37
16. Act II: Fa core 03:24
17. Act II: Ah!... 04:27
18. Act II: No, non 01:29

Disc: 2

1. Act II: E la... 07:08
2. Act II: In ques 05:07
3. Act II: O profa 06:26
4. Act II: Dell'Il 07:24
5. Act II: Vo' del 05:10
6. Act III: Chi vu 04:03
7. Act III: Inutil
8. Act III: Della 02:16
9. Act III: D'amor 01:37
10. Act III: Interm 04:27
11. Act III: Come m 10:01
12. Act III: Tu sol 05:51
13. Act III: Forsen 01:30
14. Act IV: Delle a 04:58
15. Act IV: Un ista 02:01
16. Act IV: O Jone! 04:40
17. Act IV: Glauco, 04:51
18. Act IV: L'ami t 03:02