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FRANCESCO CAVALLI L’AMORE INNAMORATO Nuria Rial soprano Hana Blažíková soprano L’ARPEGGIATA Christina Pluhar theorbo, baroque harp Doron David Sherwin cornetto Veronika Skuplik baroque violin Judith Steenbrink baroque violin Eero Palviainen archlute, baroque guitar Marcello Vitale baroque guitar Sarah Ridy baroque harp Margit Übellacker psaltery Elisabeth Seitz psaltery Lixsania Fernandes viola da gamba Rodney Prada viola da gamba Paulina van Laarhoven lirone Josetxu Obregon baroque cello Rüdiger Kurz violone Boris Schmidt double bass Haru Kitamika harpsichord, organ Francesco Turrisi harpsichord, organ David Mayoral percussion Christina Pluhar direction 1 L’Armonia (Prologo) 7:47 11 Affliggetemi, guai dolenti 2:23 L’Ormindo L’Artemisia 3 2 Sinfonia 2:31 12 Che città 3:34 Il Giasone L’Ormindo 3 Piante ombrose 3:07 Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger La Calisto 13 Toccata prima 5:30 4 Restino imbalsamate 4:20 14 Alle ruine del mio regno 7:07 La Calisto La Didone 5 Vieni, vieni in questo seno 3:39 15 L’alma fiacca svanì 4:23 La Rosinda La Didone 6 Verginella io morir vo’ 3:54 Andrea Falconieri La Calisto 16 La suave melodia 3:30 7 Ninfa bella 3:37 66:52 La Calisto 8 Non è maggior piacere 4:38 La Calisto 9 Dammi morte 4:33 L’Artemisia 10 Sinfonia 2:18 Nuria Rial 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15 L’Eliogabalo Hana Blažíková 1, 5, 7, 9, 11 4 Christina Pluhar L’Armonia (Prologo) Restino imbalsamate from L’Ormindo, 1644 from La Calisto, 1651 Libretto by Giovanni Faustini Libretto by Giovanni Faustini 5 Arr. Christina Pluhar Arr. -
Mcdonald, Bernard M. (2010) Cavalli's "Ormindo": Tonality and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century Venice
McDonald, Bernard M. (2010) Cavalli's "Ormindo": tonality and sexuality in seventeenth-century Venice. MMus(R) thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1958/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] Cavalli’s Ormindo: Tonality and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Bernard Michael McDonald Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Music to The Department of Music Faculty of Arts University of Glasgow April 2010 © Bernard McDonald 2010 ABSTRACT Ormindo, the third collaboration between the composer Francesco Cavalli and the librettist Giovanni Faustini, was created for the 1644 carnival opera season at Venice’s Teatro San Cassiano. This thesis, aimed at performers as well as scholars, begins with a brief consideration of the cultural context of early public opera in Venice and the emergence of the musical language of tonality. It goes on to examine how, in setting Faustini’s text, Cavalli represents desire and sexuality, constructs character, and creates a musical narrative. Cavalli’s implementation of the precepts of the seconda prattica is also considered in terms of textural and rhetorical devices. -
Francesco Cavalli
V O L U M E I Arias, duets and ensembles from the operas of Francesco Cavalli Edited, and with translations by Oliver Doyle E D I T I O N M V S I C A A N T I C A 1 Edition Mvsica Antica, Rotherhithe, London. © 2021 by Musica Antica Rotherhithe. This book has been made freely available to facilitate the study and performance of Francesco Cavalli’s music. Parts are also available on request; please write to [email protected] for further information. The manuscript sources consulted in the production of this book can be viewed on internetculturale.it, made available in a digitised format by the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice. For more editions of rare music and their performance in London, please visit www.musicaantica.org.uk. 2 Contents (by opera) Editor’s note v La Didone (1641) Padre, ferma i passi (S) 10 L’alma fiacca svanì (S) 16 L’Ormindo (1644) Prologo (S) 1 Tu per me ben felice (A) 20 Volate fuggite – D’Amor non si quereli (S, S, A, T) 25 Giasone (1649) Delizie, e contenti (A) 40 La Rosinda (1651) Vieni, vieni in questo seno (S) 45 La Calisto (1651) Restino imbalsamate (S) 48 Il Ciro (1654) Mia vita, mio bene (S, S, A, T ) 55 L’Erismena (1655) Piante odorose (S) 60 La Statira (1655) Cresce il foco (S) 66 Menfi, mia patria a (S) a 72 Io vivo (S) 78 3 L’Artemisia (1657) Ardo, sospiro e piango (S) 80 Dammi morte (S) 92 L’Elena (1659) Ecco l’idolo mio (S, S) 97 Mia Speranza (S, S) 104 Ercole Amante (1662) Come si beff’ amore (B) 114 Figlio, figlio (S, T) 124 Pompeo Magno (1666) Coetaneo con gli’astri (T) 128 Sonno, placido nume (A) 132 L’Eliogabalo (1667) Misero così va (S) 137 Pur ti stringo (S, S, S, S) 146 Sources 150 4 unless found in the sources consulted. -
Handel ALCESTE
HANDEL ALCESTE Lucy Crowe . Benjamin Hulett . Andrew Foster-Williams Early Opera Company CHANDOS early music CHRISTIAN CURNYN George Frideric Handel, 1749 Handel, George Frideric Painting by Thomas Hudson (1701 – 1779) © Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) Alceste, HWV 45 Incidental music to the play by Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771) Music texts probably by Thomas Morell (1703 – 1784) 1 1 Ouverture. [ ] – Allegro – A tempo ordinario 5:04 2 2 Grand Entrée 1:57 3 3 Accompagnato (Tenor). ‘Ye happy people’ 0:22 4 4 Soli and Chorus. ‘Triumph, Hymen, in the pair’. Andante allegro 2:34 Elizabeth Weisberg soprano Sian Menna mezzo-soprano 5 5 Solo (Soprano) and Chorus. ‘Still caressing, and caress’d’. Allegro 2:34 6 6 Air (Tenor). ‘Ye swift minutes as ye fly’. Allegro 3:27 7 7 Chorus. ‘O bless, ye pow’rs above’ 2:00 8 8 Air (Soprano). ‘Gentle Morpheus, son of night’. Largo e mezzo piano – ‘That when bright Aurora’s beams’. Andante – Largo – Air 8:07 9 Sinfonia from Admeto, re di Tessaglia, HWV 22 1:18 10 9 Air (Bass). ‘Ye fleeting shades, I come’. Andante 4:19 11 10 Chorus. ‘Thrice happy who in life excel’. Larghetto 1:57 3 12 11 Air (Tenor). ‘Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove’. Allegro, mà non troppo 5:14 13 Passacaille from Radamisto, HWV 12a 4:42 14 Si replica il Coro precedente ‘Thrice happy’ 1:58 15 12 Air (Soprano). ‘Come, Fancy, empress of the brain’. Allegro, ma non troppo – Adagio 5:33 16 13 Symphony and Accompagnato (Tenor). -
Partenope Cast Biographies
Partenope Cast Biographies English soprano Louise Alder makes her San Francisco Opera debut as the title role in Partenope. Louise won best Young Singer at International Opera Awards 2017 and represented England in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2017, winning the third round of the competition and the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize. Recent opera engagements include Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) at Bayerische Staatsoper, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Welsh National Opera, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Ilia (Idomeneo) for Garsington Opera, Eurydice in Rossi's Orpheus at the Wanamaker Globe for The Royal Opera, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Glyndebourne, Gilda (Rigoletto), Vixen Sharp Ears (Cunning Little Vixen), Sophie (Werther), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Atalanta (Xerxes), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), Frasquita (Carmen) with Oper Frankfurt. Her concert performances include Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at the BBC Proms, Zélide (Rameau’s Zaïs, UK premiere) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and appearances in Edinburgh, Munich, Budapest and Moscow, among others. She has sung in recital at the Brighton Festival and in venues including the Musikverein Graz, Frankfurt Opera, the Barber Institute, Birmingham, and the Southbank Centre. Her awards include the 2014 John Christie Award, and in 2017 she was named Young Singer of the Year at the International Opera Awards. Future engagements include the title role in Semele with John Eliot Gardiner at La Scala Milan, Philharmonie de Paris and Palau de la Música Barcelona, title role in La Calisto with Ivor Bolton and Teatro Real Madrid, Romilda (Xerxes), Monica (The Medium) with Oper Frankfurt, The Messiah at the New York Philharmonic and further debuts with Canadian Opera Company, English National Opera and returns to the Royal Opera House, Teatro Real Madrid and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. -
VIRTÙ-DE'-STRALI-D'amore-LA.Pdf
7 La Fenice prima dell’Opera 2008 7 2008 Fondazione Stagione 2008 Teatro La Fenice di Venezia Lirica e Balletto Francesco Cavalli more A lavirtù de’ strali d’ more a virtù de’ strali d’ de’ a virtù L A avalli C rancesco rancesco F FONDAZIONE TEATRO LA FENICE DI VENEZIA la virtù de’ strali d’amore opera tragicomica musicale in un prologo e tre atti libretto di Giovanni Faustini musica di Francesco Cavalli Teatro Malibran venerdì 10 ottobre 2008 ore 19.00 turni A1-A2 domenica 12 ottobre 2008 ore 15.30 turni B1-B2 martedì 14 ottobre 2008 ore 19.00 turni D1-D2 giovedì 16 ottobre 2008 ore 19.00 turni E1-E2 La Fenice prima dell’Opera 2008 7 «P. F. Caletti, detto il Cavalli», dall’Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, Istituto Giovanni Treccani, 35 voll., IX, 1931, p. 545. L’immagine compare per illustrare la voce «Cavalli, Francesco» di Gastone Rossi Doria, ma non v’è certezza che fissi le autentiche fattezze del compositore. La Fenice prima dell’Opera 2008 7 Sommario 5 La locandina 7 «Andiam ch’Amor ci invita ai bacci / andiam ch’Amor ci invita al letto.» di Michele Girardi 13 Ellen Rosand La virtù de’ strali d’Amore 31 Dinko Fabris Di necessità virtù: strali d’Amore e altre impertinenze nelle prime opere veneziane 45 Fabio Biondi La virtù mai tradita di essere ‘autentici’… Qualche osservazione su un’opera di Cavalli che ritorna a Venezia 47 Maria Martino L’esordio operistico dell’avvocato Giovanni Faustini 53 La virtù de’ strali d’Amore: libretto e guida all’opera a cura di Maria Martino 115 La virtù de’ strali d’Amore: in breve a cura di Maria Giovanna Miggiani 117 Argomento – Argument – Synopsis – Handlung 123 Maria Martino Bibliografia 129 Online: Novità nell’aria… a cura di Roberto Campanella 133 Dall’archivio storico del Teatro La Fenice Cavalli torna in repertorio a cura di Franco Rossi Frontespizio del libretto (Venezia, Pietro Miloco, 1642) della Virtù de’ strali d’Amore, rappresentata al S. -
Handel Serse
HANDEL SERSE Anna Stéphany . Rosemary Joshua . David Daniels Hilary Summers . Joélle Harvey . Brindley Sherratt . Andreas Wolf Early Opera Company CHANDOS early music CHRISTIAN CURNYN HANDEL SERSE G E O RGE F R ID ER IC HAND E L Marble sculpture, 1738, by Louis-François Roubiliac (c. 1702 – 1762), now at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London / AKG Images, London George Frideric HANdel (1685–1759) Serse, HWV 40 (1737 – 38) Opera in Three Acts On an anonymous revision of the libretto Il Xerse (Rome, 1694) by Silvio Stampiglia (1664 – 1725), in turn based on the libretto Il Xerse (Venice, 1655) by Count Nicolò Minato (c. 1630 – 1698) Performing edition prepared by Peter Jones Serse, King of Persia .................................................. Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano Arsamene, his brother, in love with Romilda................David Daniels counter-tenor Amastre, heiress to the kingdom of Tagor, betrothed to Serse ........................................................................Hilary Summers contralto Ariodate, a prince, vassal to Serse ..................................................Brindley Sherratt bass Romilda, his daughter, in love with Arsamene ................Rosemary Joshua soprano Atalanta, her sister, secretly in love with Arsamene ...................Joélle Harvey soprano Elviro, servant of Arsamene ....................................................Andreas Wolf bass-baritone Setting: Abydos, Persia in ancient times Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn 5 COMPACT DISC ONE Time Page 1 1 Ouverture. [ ] – Allegro – Adagio – Gigue 5:33 p. 82 Act I 2 2 Accompagnato. Serse: ‘Frondi tenere, e belle’ 0:41 p. 82 3 3 Aria. Serse: ‘Ombra mai fu’. Larghetto 2:21 p. 82 4 4 Recitativo. Arsamene: ‘Siam giunti, Elviro...’ 0:22 p. 83 with Elviro 5 5 Sinfonia e Recitativo. Arsamene: ‘Sento un soave concento’. Larghetto 1:49 p. -
HANDEL Flavio
HANDEL FLAVIO Tim Mead . Rosemary Joshua . Iestyn Davies . Renata Pokupic´ Hilary Summers . Thomas Walker . Andrew Foster-Williams Early Opera Company CHANDOS early music CHRISTIAN CURNYN HANDEL FLAVIO © Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library George Frideric HANdel (1685–1759) FLAVIO, RE DE’ LONGOBARDI, HWV 16 (1723) Opera in Three Acts Libretto by Nicola Haym afterIl Flavio Cuniberto by Matteo Noris Performing edition prepared by Peter Jones Personaggi Flavio, Re de’ Longobardi ..............................................................................Tim Mead counter-tenor Guido, figlio d’Ugone ............................................................................. Iestyn Davies counter-tenor Emilia, figlia di Lotario ............................................................................ Rosemary Joshua soprano Teodata, figlia d’Ugone ............................................................................Hilary Summers contralto Vitige, amante di Teodata ..............................................................Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano Ugone, consigliere di Flavio .............................................................................Thomas Walker tenor Lotario, consigliere di Flavio ...................................... Andrew Foster-Williams bass-baritone Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn 5 COMPACT DISC ONE Time Page 1 1 Overture 4:22 p. 76 Act I Scene I 2 2 Recitativo. Vitige. ‘Fra i ciechi orror’ notturni’ 0:42 p. 76 with Teodata 3 3 Duetto. Vitige and Teodata. ‘Ricordati, mio ben’ 4:29 p. 77 Scene II 4 4 Sinfonia 0:21 p. 78 5 5 Recitativo. Ugone. ‘Lotario, al sacro nodo’ – p. 78 with Lotario, Guido, Teodata Scene III Recitativo. Emilia. ‘Con l’alma reverente’ 1:46 p. 79 with Guido, Ugone, Lotario, Teodata 6 6 Aria. Emilia. ‘Quanto dolci, quanto care’ 3:48 p. 81 Scene IV 7 7 Recitativo. Guido. ‘Son pur felice al fine’ 0:25 p. 82 8 8 Aria. Guido. ‘Bel contento già gode quest’alma’ 5:27 p. 82 6 Time Page Scene V 9 9 Recitativo. Ugone. ‘O dell’Italo soglio, eccelso nume’ 1:35 p. -
Censoring Eliogabalo in Seventeenth-Century
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxvi:3 (Winter, 2006), 355–377. CENSORING ELIOGABALO Mauro Calcagno Censoring Eliogabalo in Seventeenth-Century Venice In the letter to the reader that begins his short treatise On Honest Dissimulation (1641), Torquato Accetto writes that his book has been left “almost bloodless” by self-inºicted wounds. Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-pdf/36/3/355/1710441/002219506774929818.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 “You will recognize the scars,” the author warns, “when you use good judgement.” Accetto calls this treatise the “small book”; be- hind it lies the forbidden “large book” which can be read only be- tween the lines of the “small book.” Accetto’s distinction between the book permitted and the one not permitted is symptomatic of a historical condition common to writers living in the early modern period: Censorship prevented them from writing their “large” books. To circumvent censorship, Accetto suggests that authors practice the art of dissimulation. But dissimulation, he adds, re- quires an active response from readers, the ability to decode and recover the “other text,” which conveys full authorial intention. By using the metaphor of “scars” (cicatrici), Accetto alludes to an episode in Book XIX of the Odyssey in which a scar on Ulysses’ body reveals that he is not an old beggar, but the master and hero of the household. Accetto’s point is that any text published in the age of censorship is metaphorically an injured body that readers should use their hermeneutic skills to recuperate.1 Accetto’s methodology of reading texts—a true hermeneutics of “suspicion” avant la lettre—is useful for the interpretation of works revised presumably under the pressure of censorship—in- cluding opera librettos. -
La Europa De La Europa
CICLOS MUSICALES Murillo La Europa de La Europa www.murilloysevilla.org Sevilla 40 0 años La Europa de Murillo Espacio Turina, Sala Silvio Un proyecto de: Con la colaboración institucional de: Con la colaboración de: Del 17 de octubre de 2018 al 18 de enero de 2019 Detalle de “SANTAS JUSTA Y RUFINA”, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Esteban Bartolomé RUFINA”, Y JUSTA “SANTAS de Detalle CICLOS MUSICALES CICLOS La Europa de Murillo L’Arpeggiata. L’Amore innamorato Viernes 7 de diciembre de 2018 Espacio Turina. 20.30 horas L’Amore innamorato Non è maggior piacere [La Calisto, Teatro San Apollinare, 1651; aria de Calisto] * Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) Che città [L’Ormindo, Teatro San Apollinare, 1649; Sinfonia [La Calisto, Teatro San Apollinare, 1651] aria de Nerillo] ** Prologue – L’Armonia [L’Ormindo, Teatro San Apollinare, 1649; aria de Armonia] * Lorenzo Allegri (1582-1652) Canario Sinfonia [Il Giasone, Teatro San Cassiano, 1649] Piante Ombrose [La Calisto, Teatro San Apollinare, Francesco Cavalli 1651; aria de Calisto] * Dammi morte [ L’Artemisia, Teatro San Giovanni e San Paolo, 1657; aria de Oronta] ** Verginella io morir vo’ [La Calisto, Teatro San Apollinare, 1651; aria de Calisto] * L’Alma fiacca svani [La Didone, Teatro San Cassiano, 1641; aria de Cassandra] ** Vieni, vieni in questo seno [La Rosinda, Teatro San Apollinare, 1651; aria de Nerea] ** Alle ruine del mio regno adunque [La Didone, Teatro San Cassiano, 1641; lamento de Canzon à 3 Hécuba]* Piangete, occhi dolenti [L’Egisto, Teatro San Cassiano, 1643; lamento de Climene]* L’Arpeggiata -
Cavalli and the Staging of Venetian Opera - Part One Transcript
Calisto a le stelle: Cavalli and the Staging of Venetian Opera - Part One Transcript Date: Monday, 22 September 2008 - 1:00PM Location: Barnard's Inn Hall RESTORING CAVALLI TO THE THEATRE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Ellen Rosand I. Cavalli could not have been restored to the theater in the 21stcentury if he had not been restored to history in the 20th. That is, prerequisite to the revival of Cavalli's operas was the revival of interest in Cavalli as a composer, and in Venetian opera as a historical subject. (You can look at the bibliography on the screen as I mention the various authors.) Slide 1 Already in the 19th century, the first German musicologists recognized Cavalli's importance in the development of opera. They were spurred in their interest by the availability of sources of information going back almost to Cavalli's time itself, many of them published. These included complete annual series of librettos, carefully amassed by collectors, and annotated chronologies based on them. The chronologies of Ivanovich, Bonlini, Groppo, and Allacci, each proporting to correct as it expanded upon its predecessors, established an almost unbroken link between the period they documented and the modern era. The author of the first of these chronologies, Cristoforo Ivanovich, was actually a contemporary of some of the librettists in his catalogue and had even seen some of the works in his list. He evidently supplemented the information he garnered from the librettos themselves with material drawn from more casual or informal sources, as well as by deduction. This is significant with respect to Cavalli, because Ivanovich attributed many more works to him than the evidence provided, and his "errori" were preserved for some three-hundred years, until the early 1970s, in fact, when a young American student, Thomas Walker, undertook to correct them. -
Palm Beach Opera Orchestra
insidewhat’s 2018-2019 SEASON Letter from Chairman 9 Artists 34 Board of Directors 10 Creative Team 39 General Director’s Welcome 11 Production Staff 41 Co-Producer Society & Palm Beach Opera Chorus 42 Program Sponsors 12 Palm Beach Opera Orchestra 44 La traviata 27 Benenson Young Artists 46 Cast of Characters 28 Apprentice Artists 47 Director’s Notes 29 Orpheus Legacy Society 54 Synopsis 30 Supporters 56 Production Team 32 Palm Beach Opera Staff 62 ADVERTISING Onstage Publications 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of Onstage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. PALM BEACH OPERA 5 LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN DEAR PALM BEACH OPERA PATRONS, On behalf of the Palm Beach Opera Board of Directors, welcome to our first opera weekend of the 2019 Season. Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata is rightfully one of the world’s most beloved operas and I’m confident you will enjoy this performance! Those of you who were at our A night of…Rising Stars & Classic Melodies concert in December were surely impressed with the performance of our Benenson Young Artists. These extraordinary emerging artists along with star mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves and the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra conducted by Greg Ritchey brought the house down! This season, we have 8 Young Artists and 10 Apprentice Artists…the largest group ever.