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Professor Michael Burden's new edition of Stradella's Il Trespolo tutore published

Friday 14 March 2025

 

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Professor Michael Burden's new edition of Alessandro Stradella's opera Il Trespolo tutore, has been published by Edizioni ETS as part of the Stradella Opera Omnia.

This is the first modern published edition of the opera, which tells the tale of the dotty old tutor who has terrible eyesight and is in love with the maidservant Despina. The plot devices - which include a will, the dictation of a letter, and a mad scene - come thick and fast.

Stradella is known today mostly through performances of the oratorio San Giovanni Batista, as the source for Handel's borrowings in Israel in Egypt, and as the subject of the salacious opera Stradella by Friedrich von Flotow, a work which kept the composer's name before the public during the 19th century. His music is currently the subject of various recording activities, including The Stradella Project:

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