Marco Beasley (26 February 1957,
Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...
) is an Italian tenor, voice-actor and musicologist.
With composer and harpsichordist
Guido Morini, Beasley was one of the three founding members of the
Accordone early music ensemble in 1984; Stefano Rocco was later replaced by violinist
Enrico Gatti
Enrico Gatti (born 1955) is an Italian violinist, known for playing baroque violin, Baroque music.
Gatti was born in Perugia, Italy. He graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Geneva Conservatory as a student of :en:Chiara Banchi ...
. Beasley is a notable advocate in baroque performance practice for the revival of the
recitar cantando of baroque Italy and the
frottole of Naples, though his "folk" touches are not equally appreciated by all classical music critics.
Beasley sang the lead role of the
Ancient Mariner
''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' (originally ''The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere''), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ''Lyrical Ballads'', is a poem that recounts the ...
in
Luca Francesconi
Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, later with Karlheinz Stockhausen and then Luciano Berio.
Early years
Luca Francesconi was born in Milan. His father was a painter who edited ...
's opera ''Ballata'' at the
Leipzig Opera
The Leipzig Opera () is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany.
History
Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Singspiel perfo ...
in 2002.
Selected discography
*
Stradella opera ''Moro per Amore''. Velardi.
Bongiovanni
* ''Musique Baroque a Naples'', E. Barbella, F. Mancini, sonatas
Gaetano Latilla
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Gaetano Latilla (12 January 1711 – 15 January 1788) was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni (his nephew).
Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservator ...
: T'aggio voluto bene
Giulio Cesare Rubino: cantata ''Lena'',
Giuseppe Porsile: Cantata sopra l'
arcicalascione. Marco Beasley, with Bruno Ré, Paolo Capirci, Fabio Menditto, Federico Marincola, Andrea Damiani, as Ensemble Musica Ficta (Italy).
Pierre Verany PV. 789023, 1989
[Fanfare – Volume 13, Page 411 Joel Flegler – 1990 "PIERRE VERANY 789023 .. Ensemble Musica Ficta thus belongs to the first generation of Italian early-music ensembles, with all that implies. Though Marco Beasley's tenor sounds ...]
* ''Canzoni Villanesche: Neapolitan Love Songs of the 16th Century'' Daedalus Ensemble 1994
* ''Past Time in Good Company'' – 10 year anniversary disc for
Alpha Records: 1 track with
L'Arpeggiata
L'Arpeggiata is a European early music group led by Christina Pluhar, and founded by her in 2000. The group has presented both traditional early music and also several collaged and themed performances and recordings.
The group focuses on Italian ...
, directed
Christina Pluhar 1998
* ''Meraviglia d'amore'' Private Musicke, Pierre Pitzl ORF
* ''Il Sogno d'Orfeo'' Accordone
ORF 2002
* ''L'Amore Ostinato'' Accordone ORF 2002
* ''Vox Clamans in Solitudine'' Accordone 2002
* ''Il Salotto Napoletano'' – salon songs Accordone ORF
* ''Novellette E Madrigali'' Madrigalisti delle RSI and Ensemble Vanitas 2002
* ''La Bella Noeva'' Accordone Alpha 2003
*
Stefano Landi: ''Homo fugit velut umbra'' – L'Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar
Alpha Records 2003
* ''La
Tarantella
Tarantella () is a group of various Southern Italy, southern Italian Italian folk dance, folk dances originating in the regions of Calabria, Campania, Sicilia, and Apulia. It is characterized by a fast Beat (music), upbeat tempo, usually in Ti ...
– Antidotum'' L'Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar 2003
* ''All Improvviso'' L'Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar 2004
* ''
Frottole''.
Accordone Cypres Records 2006
* ''Recitar cantando'' Accordone Cypres 2006
*
Guido Morini: ''Una Odissea''
Netherlands Wind Ensemble 2007
* ''Il Settecento Napoletano'' Accordone 2007
*
Alessandro Scarlatti
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque music, Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan sch ...
: Il Martirio di Santa Cecilia dir.
Diego Fasolis
Diego Fasolis (born 19 April 1958) is a Swiss classical organist and conductor, the leader of the ensemble I Barocchisti. He has conducted operas in historically informed performance at major European opera houses and festivals, and has made award- ...
2008
* Guido Morini: Si Dolce Netherlands Wind Ensemble 2009
* ''Vivifice Spiritus Vitae Vis'' Accordone 2009
* ''Fra Diavolo'' Accordone
Arcana Records 2011
*
Bellerofonte Castaldi ''Ferita d'amore''. Lute solos, with 2 tracks with Beasley. Arcana 2011
* ''Storie di Napoli'' Accordone Alpha 2012
* ''Cantate Deo'' Accordone Alpha 2013 – Beasley sings both parts of tenor duets
External links
Website o
Marco Beasley
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beasley, Marco
Italian tenors
1957 births
Living people
Musicians from Naples