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CHAN 9613 Book Cover.Qxd 17/10/07 1:19 Pm Page 1 CHAN 9613 Book Cover.qxd 17/10/07 1:19 pm Page 1 CHANDOS Chan 9613(2) S ALIERI Falstaff Alberto Veronesi The Madrigalists of Milan Orchestra Guido Cantelli of Milan Alberto Veronesi CHAN 9613 BOOK.qxd 17/10/07 1:21 pm Page 2 Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) Falstaff or The Three Tricks Comic opera in three acts Libretto by Carlo Prospers Defranceschi Sir John Falstaff ..............................................................................................Romano Franceschetto baritone AKG Mistress Alice Ford ....................................................................................................Lee Myeounghee soprano Mr Ford ....................................................................................................................Giuliano de Filippo tenor Mistress Slender, a friend of Mistress Ford ....................................................................Chiara Chialli soprano Mr Slender ..............................................................................................................Fernando Luis Ciuffo bass Bardolf, servant to Falstaff ..............................................................................................Filippo Bettoschi bass Betty, lady-in-waiting to Mistress Ford..............................................................................Natalia Valli soprano Chorus: Guests, Friends and Spirits The Madrigalists of Milan Orchestra Guido Cantelli of Milan Alberto Veronesi Antonio Salieri 3 CHAN 9613 BOOK.qxd 17/10/07 1:21 pm Page 4 COMPACT DISC ONE 13 Mistress Slender – “Comare, in questo punto…” 0:50 Overture 14 Duet – (Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender) 1 Allegro di controdanza 4:14 Mistress Slender – “La stessa, la stessissima” 1:13 15 Mistress Slender – “Ma parlando sul serio…” 0:52 ACT I Scene 1 Scene 7 2 Introduction (Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Slender, Slender, Guests) 16 Slender – “Ho capito, ma spero che non sarà poi vero…” 1:26 Falstaff and Guests – “Viva il comune amico” 3:17 3 Falstaff – “Sia pur l’ultimo bicchiere” 2:54 Scene 8 4 Mistress Ford – “Ma già l’alba s’avvicina” 1:59 17 Quartet (Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender, Ford, Slender) Mistress Ford – “Oh, quanto vogliam ridere” 5:00 Scene 2 5 Bardolf – “Vedete che capriccio…” 0:49 Scene 9 6 Accompanied recitative 18 Ford – “Eh! Mia moglie, compare…” 0:55 Bardolf – “Non reggo più dal sonno…” – 5:00 19 Aria Slender – “Venga, venga pure il cavaliere” 3:19 Scene 3 Bardolf – “Mangiar da principe…” – Scene 10 7 Duet (Falstaff, Bardolf) 2:24 20 Falstaff – “A un uom della mia sorte…” 0:57 Falstaff – “Con molta degnazione” 8 Falstaff – “Da scrivere…” 3:20 Scene 11 21 Mistress Ford – “Guten morgen, mein Herr…” 1:42 Scene 4 22 Aria 9 Bardolf – “Li porto o non li porto?…” 0:44 Mistress Ford – “Oh, die Männer kenn ich schon” 3:14 Scene 5 10 Cavatina Scene 12 23 Ford – “Vicino a rivedere” – Falstaff – “E che ti par, Falstaff?…” 3:56 24 Ford – “Di dubitar di lei non ho motivo…” 3:18 Aria Falstaff – “Nell’impero di Cupido” 3:20 Scene 6 25 Accompanied recitative 11 Mistress Slender – “Oh, tinozzo ambulante!…” 0:45 Ford – “Ah, vile! Ah seduttore!…” – 12 Aria Aria Mistress Slender – “Vendetta, sì vendetta” 2:02 Ford – “Or degli affanni i palpiti” 5:22 4 5 CHAN 9613 BOOK.qxd 17/10/07 1:21 pm Page 6 Scene 13 Scene 5 26 Mistress Ford – “Restate là vicini…” 2:06 8 Falstaff – “E il nostro Signor Broch…” – Scene 14 Scene 6 27 Finale (beginning) Bardolf – “Il Signor Broch vi attende…” 0:59 Falstaff – “Bricconcella, alfin t’ho colta” 7:45 TT 72:42 Scene 7 9 Ford – “Se un pranzo non vi basta…” 1:22 COMPACT DISC TWO 10 Accompanied recitative Scene 14 (cont.) Ford – “Che sento!… E quando ei venne…” – 1 Finale (conclusion) Falstaff – “Or dunque quella bestia…” 1:13 Ford – “Sì. Son geloso a torto” 8:27 11 Cavatina (Falstaff, Ford) Falstaff – “Nella stanza in un cantone” – Act II (first part) Falstaff – “Or, quando fui nel cesto…” 1:29 Scene 1 12 Cavatina 2 Betty – “Sentite pure…” 0:49 Falstaff – “Io, sotto titolo di roba sudicia” – 0:42 3 Trio – (Betty, Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender) 13 Betty – “Nell’acqua il buzzone” – Ford – “Signor, son penetrato del più vivo dolor…” 1:20 Mistress Ford – “Questa a buon conto…” 2:47 Scene 8 Scene 2 14 Accompanied recitative 4 Falstaff – “Ehi! Bardolfo! A chi dico?…” – Falstaff – “Stelle sogno o son desto?…” – Aria Scene 3 Falstaff – “Furie che mi agitate” – Falstaff – “Corpo di Satanasso!…” – Scene 4 Scene 9 Falstaff – “È preparato?…” 2:22 Mistress Ford – “Presto Betty, che torna già l’amico…” 2:24 15 5 Duet – (Betty, Falstaff) Duet – (Mistress Ford, Falstaff) Betty – “Ah, Signore, se sapesse” 0:59 Mistress Ford – “Su, mio core, a gioir ti prepara!” 2:48 6 Betty – “Si degni almen di legger questo foglio…” 0:40 7 Trio – (Betty, Falstaff, Bardolf) Scene 10 Falstaff – “Si mi vedeste il core” 3:27 16 Falstaff – “Ma siam sicuri?… – 6 7 CHAN 9613 BOOK.qxd 17/10/07 1:21 pm Page 8 Scene 11 Scene 15 Mistress Slender – “Ehi, comare presto!…” – 25 Falstaff– “Se in Londra si sapessero le mie delusioni…” 0:57 Duettino (Mistress Ford, Falstaff) 26 Aria Mistress Ford – “Pre carità, celatevi” 1:03 Ford – “La sua fede sì gradita” 1:37 17 Mistress Slender – “Siete sola?…” 1:38 27 Arietta 18 Trio (Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender, Falstaff) Falstaff – “Sorte pettegola, meco la vuoi” – Falstaff – “Primo ancor che Mastro venga” 1:04 Ford – “Chi dite mai?…” – 19 Falstaff – “Ma dunque, care amiche?…” – Arietta Falstaff – “Sorte pettegola, meco la vuoi” 0:56 Scene 12 Mistress Ford – “Ha, ha! Sarebbe bella se così travestito…” 2:40 Scene 16 28 Scene 13 Falstaff – “Che dici?…” 1:08 29 1:03 20 Accompanied recitative Falstaff – “Consolatevi amico…” Ford – “Ecco, amici! Ah! Ribaldo!…” 0:34 21 Ensemble (Betty, Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender, Ford, (Second part) Slender, Friends) Scene 17 Mrs Ford – “Che vedo! Oh, me infelice!” 2:52 30 Aria (Slender, Echo) 22 Ford – “Orben, colui che cerco…” 1:44 Slender – “Reca in amor la gelosia” – 23 Duet (Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender) Slender – “Zitto: vien qualchedun…” 2:54 Tutti – “Benedetto quel bastone” 0:50 31 Finale (Mistress Ford, Mistress Slender, Falstaff, Ford, Slender, Spirits) Scene 14 Slender – “Siete già qui” 7:25 24 Aria 32 Mistress Ford – “Fate verdi, turchine e bianche e nere” 7:32 Falstaff – “Sorte pettegola, meco la vuoi” 1:35 TT 69:25 8 9 CHAN 9613 BOOK.qxd 17/10/07 1:21 pm Page 10 composers of his time possessed. This kind of Falstaff, who has invited himself to the party, is Antonio Salieri: Falstaff experience, which he acquired above all in Les immediately characterized in the orchestra by an danaïdes and in Tarare, revealed its total functional insinuating and mincing group of semitones which character in the idea: “Prima la musica e poi le portray his gross and fraudulent character. Taking Salieri was born in 1750 in Legnago near Verona to a important experiments and innovations were taking parole”. This idea was also approached from a advantage of the absence of Mistress Ford’s husband, family of musicians. His elder brother Francesco, a place in the field of opera. It is well known that the different angle by Richard Strauss in Capriccio. he indiscreetly courts her while the chorus pupil of Tartini’s, taught him the violin while the catalyst that brought about the reform of opera But let us now consider Falstaff which, even comments on his villainy by associating it with the cathedral organist Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of seriosa was the Genoese count Giacomo Durazzo. though it was not the first setting of the comedy to effects of wine. Martini’s, gave him harpsichord and basso continuo In 1754 he became Generalspektakeldirektor and music, certainly represented the most successful Alice Ford pretends to play along with Falstaff lessons. In 1765 under the patronage of the powerful together with Gluck, the choreographer and dancer transposition into the language of the opera giocosa who, flattered, immediately plans not only an Mocenigo family, the young musician was able to Angiolini and the libretto writer Ranieri de’ of William Shakespeare’s immortal work of art. amorous approach but also a scheme to make study at the music school of the cappella of San Calzabigi, he produced the new pantomime ballet Studies so far assert that the first musical setting money. During a very refined minuet our hero Marco in Venice as a pupil of the opera composer Don Juan (1761) and in 1762 Orfeo of The Merry Wives of Windsor was performed on in intensifies his courting to include Mistress Slender Giovanni Battista Pescetti. There he met Florian (Calzabigi/Gluck), an opera of an undoubted December 1761 at the Comédie-italienne theatre in to the derision of the chorus. Mistress Slender and Leopold Gassmann, maestro of the imperial cappella innovative spirit even though it was only to have a Paris with the music of the first violinist Papavoine Mistress Ford decide to comply with Falstaff’s and an opera writer of great success who studied marginal influence on the Viennese scene. (c. 1720–c. 1793) under the title of Le vieux coquet comical play in order to punish him. At the under Father Martini and took Salieri to Vienna to After the Viennese successes Salieri turned ou Les deux amis. We do not know whether it was Capricorn Inn where Falstaff is staying his servant complete his musical and cultural education. A gifted towards Italy: two opera houses were inaugurated this subject or, as is more likely, Peter Ritter’s Bardolf, in a sharp and lively recitative, expresses a conductor, Antonio Salieri, when only nineteen, (Teatro alla Scala opened with Europa riconosciuta in singspiel Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor put on in servant’s usual complaints against his master’s directed the rehearsals for the operas at the Imperial 1778 and Teatro della Cannobiana with La fiera di Mannheim in 1794, that attracted the composer and stinginess and arrogance. In the meantime Falstaff court theatre where the following year (1770) he Venezia in 1779), and he also enjoyed great success libretto writer’s attention to the topic.
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