ROSSINI, G.: Scala di seta Overture (La) (Prague Sinfonia, Benda) (from Naxos 8.570934)
Composer: Rossini, Gioachino
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Conductor: Benda, Christian
Prague Sinfonia
Year of Production: 9-2011
Playing Time: 00:06:03
Catalogue Number: NVF0104
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) dates from the same year and is a collaboration again with the librettist Giuseppe Foppa, after a French original. It was first performed at the Teatro San Moise in Venice on 9th May 1812.
Giulia's secret marriage to her lover Dorvil is happily revealed when she engineers the marriage of her guardian's chosen husband for her, Dorvil's friend Blansac, with her cousin Lucilla. The opera starts with a popular overture, a frequent concert opener, drawn from this early example of Rossini's skill in handling comedy of this kind. The overture follows a familiar pattern, after the startling opening bars. An Andantino oboe melody leads the way to a brilliant Allegro, its two themes returning in recapitulation before the final chords.
