ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΑ Η ΚΑΘΛΗΝ ΚΟΥΛΜΑΝ ΣΤΟ ΣΑΝ ΚΑΡΛΟ ΤΗΣ ΝΑΠΟΛΗΣ

Η KATHLEEN KUHLMANN ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΑΕΙ LEONARDO VINCI

(ARTASERSE: VO SOLCANDO UN MAR CRUDELE)

Contralto Kathleen Kuhlmann (here billed as mezzosoprano) singing Arbace's aria Vo Solcando Un Mar Crudele from Leonardo Vinci's last opera Artaserse. Gustav Kuhn is conducing. Video taken from a RAI broadcast of a semi-staged concert of operatic rarities from Teatro di San Carlo, Napoli in 1987, comemorating its 250th year. San Carlo is the oldest working theatre in Europe, 41 years older than Milano's La Scala and 51 years older than Venice's Fenice, and was built in 1737 by King Charles of Bourbon. Vinci composed this opera in 1730, but it was not to be performed in San Carlo until 1738. It was revived in 1743, due to its popularity.