Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini

The story of Gaspare Spontini, a brilliant artist who rose from a small village in the Marche region, contrasting provincial life with universal musical invention in a quest for the relationship between art, love, and eternity.

For the festivities marking the Pergolesi's tercentenary in his native Jesi, Ignacio García created a new staging of the imperial drama Adriano in Siria. His staging in Jesi's exquisite 18th-century Teatro Comunale Pergolesi includes the delightful comic intermezzo Livietta e Tracollo, thus following the precedent set at the premiere in 1734. A fine Italian cast and the distinguished Accademia Bizantina are led by the Accademia's director, Ottavio Dantone. Contains the intermezzo Livietta e Tracollo.

Michal Znaniecki stages Pergolesi's Il Flaminio at the Teatro Valeria Moriconi in Jesi, using a deliberately theatrical setting to play truth against fiction and tragedy against comedy. Ottavio Dantone conducts the Accademia Bizantina, with Juan Francisco Gatell, Laura Polverelli and Marina De Liso leading the cast. Recording is from 2010.

Corrado Rovaris conducts Pergolesi's Il prigionier superbo in Henning Brockhaus's modern cave-set production from the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi, 2009. The opera follows two rival kings and the proud princess Rosmene amid imprisonment, political ambition and divided love.

Henning Brockhaus stages Pergolesi's comic intermezzo La serva padrona in a circus setting at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi, 2011. Corrado Rovaris conducts the Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani as the servant Serpina schemes to become master Uberto's wife.