Filippo Mineccia & Istante Collective - Arias for Giovanni Rubinelli (2026) [Hi-Res]

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Title: Arias for Giovanni Rubinelli
Year Of Release: 2026
Label: Glossa
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:15:06
Total Size: 351 MB / 1.28 GB
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Tracklist:

1. Sacchini: Calliroe: Aria. Suon funesto notte e giorno (Agricane) (3:57)
2. Anfossi: Lucio Silla: Aria. A partir tu mi condanni (Cecilio) (5:19)
3. Piccinni: Tigrane: Aria. Ah non resiste il core (Sesto) (2:41)
4. Traetta: Ifigenia in Tauride: Aria. Ah! per pietà placatevi (Oreste) (2:48)
5. Mysliveček: Atide: Aria. Affanni di quest'alma (Adrasto) (6:44)
6. Salieri: Europa riconosciuta: Duetto. Perder l'oggetto amatom (Isseo) (4:14)
7. Andreozzi: Arbace: Recitativo. Dove son? Che rimiro? In queste cupe (Arbace) (1:34)
8. Andreozzi: Arbace: Aria. Non fareste ombre di morte (Arbace) (2:23)
9. Sarti: Siroe: Aria. Mi credi infedele (Siroe) (2:29)
10. Tarchi: Ademira: Aria. Ah se in vita o mio tesoro (Flavio Valente) (6:21)
11. Paisiello: Antigono: Recitativo. Ch'io fugga, e lasci intanto (Demetrio) (1:39)
12. Paisiello: Antigono: Duetto. Non temer, non sono amante (Demetrio) (6:48)
13. Bianchi: Cajo Mario: Aria. Se fedel mi serbi amore (Annio) (5:58)
14. Handel: Poro, re delle Indie, HWV 28: Aria. Se possono tanto (2:57)
15. Handel: Riccardo primo, re d'Inghilterra, HWV 23: Duetto. T'amo sì, sarai tu quella (4:10)
16. Mortellari: Venere e Adone: Aria. Cercando l'idol mio (Adone) (3:01)
17. Nasolini: La morte di Cleopatra: Aria. Queste lagrime dolenti (Marc' Antonio) (2:26)
18. Cherubini: Didone abbadonata (Luigi Cherubini): Aria. Quando saprai chi sono (3:38)
19. Lenzi: Quoniam tu solus Sanctus (6:10)

The renowned music historian Charles Burney counted Giovanni Rubinelli (1753 - 1829) among the three great castrato voices of the late 18th century. At a time when the era of opera seria and castrati was drawing to a close, Rubinelli was one of its last great protagonists.

Numerous composers wrote specifically for his voice, which was not the favoured high soprano voice of a castrato, but that of a contralto.

This album traces Rubinelli’s artistic career: he made his debut in Ludwigsburg at the age of 16 in Calliroe by Antonio Sacchini, sang in Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta at the inauguration of La Scala in Milan in 1778, and made guest appearances in London in the late 1780s, performing in Handel’s Julius Caesar, among other works.

Countertenor Filippo Mineccia gives an emotive and virtuoso performance, creating a historical portrait of a singer who also stands for the development of opera from the virtuosity of the castrato stars to the sensitive arias of the new simplicity of Gluck’s opera reform.