- For over 200 years, the early work La fuga in maschera by the Italian conductor and composer Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) was considered forgotten

- Its rediscovery in 2007 is considered a special event in the history of Italian music

- The Commedia per musica was performed on August 31, 2012 at the Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi in co-production with the Teatro San Carlo in Naples

- The conductor is Corrado Rovaris, a well-known and popular figure in American opera

- Subject: Opera Classical

Gaspare Spontini: La fuga di maschera

Singers: Ruth Rosique, Caterina di Tonno, Alessandra Marinelli a. o.

I Virtuosi Italiani
Conductor: Corrado Rovaris

"A firework of humor and cheerful entertainment." (Opera Glass)
For more than 200 years, the early work "La fuga in maschera" by Italian conductor and composer Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) was considered lost. The commedia per musica in two acts was premiered in 1800 during the Carnival at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples and then disappeared from the stages of the world until 2007, when a phenomenal rediscovery took place and the municipality of Maiolati Spontini, Gaspare Spontini's birthplace, acquired the signed autograph. Thus, after 212 years of silence, the opera was performed again on August 31, 2012 at the Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi in a co-production with the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In Federico Agostinelli's revision, the work gains access to the present without distorting Spontini's handwriting. Episodes full of love affairs, promises and masquerades are humorously interwoven and allow a glimpse into Italian society around 1800, which Spontini mocks here with subtlety.

With Ruth Rosique as Elena, Caterina Di Tonno as Olimpia, Alessandra Marianelli as Corallina, Clemente Daliotti as Nardullo, Filippo Morace as Marzucco, Alessandro Spina as Nastagio and Dionigi D'Ostuni in the role of Doralbo, the brilliant soloists are convincing both vocally and in their acting.