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L'opera Italiana Nei Territori Boemi Durante Il
L’OPERA ITALIANA NEI TERRITORI BOEMI DURANTE IL SETTECENTO V. 1-18_Vstupy.indd 2 25.8.20 12:46 Demofoonte come soggetto per il dramma per musica: Johann Adolf Hasse ed altri compositori del Settecento a cura di Milada Jonášová e Tomislav Volek ACADEMIA Praga 2020 1-18_Vstupy.indd 3 25.8.20 12:46 Il libro è stato sostenuto con un finanziamento dell’Accademia delle Scienze della Repubblica Ceca. Il convegno «Demofoonte come soggetto per il dramma per musica: Johann Adolf Hasse ed altri compositori del Settecento» è stato sostenuto dall’Istituto della Storia dell’Arte dell’Accademia delle Scienze della Repubblica Ceca con un finanziamento nell’ambito del programma «Collaborazione tra le Regioni e gli Istituti dell’Accademia delle Scienze della Repubblica Ceca » per l’anno 2019. Altra importante donazione ha ricevuto l’Istituto della Storia dell’Arte dell’Accademia delle Scienze della Repubblica Ceca da Johann Adolf Hasse-Gesellschaft a Bergedorf e.V. Prossimo volume della collana: L’opera italiana – tra l’originale e il pasticcio In copertina: Pietro Metastasio, Il Demofoonte, atto II, scena 9 „Vieni, mia vita, vieni, sei salva“, Herissant, vol. 1, Paris 1780. In antiporta: Il Demofoonte, atto II, scena 5 „Il ferro, il fuoco“, in: Opere di Pietro Metastasio, Pietro Antonio Novelli (disegnatore), Pellegrino De Col (incisore), vol. 4, Venezia: Antonio Zatta, 1781. Recensori: Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Bianconi Prof. Dr. Jürgen Maehder Traduzione della prefazione: Kamila Hálová Traduzione dei saggi di Tomislav Volek e di Milada Jonášová: Ivan Dramlitsch -
Opera Olimpiade
OPERA OLIMPIADE Pietro Metastasio’s L’Olimpiade, presented in concert with music penned by sixteen of the Olympian composers of the 18th century VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA Andrea Marcon, conductor Romina Basso Megacle Franziska Gottwald Licida Karina Gauvin Argene Ruth Rosique Aristea Carlo Allemano Clistene Nicholas Spanos Aminta Semi-staged by Nicolas Musin SUMMARY Although the Olympic games are indelibly linked with Greece, Italy was progenitor of the Olympic operas, spawning a musical legacy that continues to resound in opera houses and concert halls today. Soon after 1733, when the great Roman poet Pietro Metastasio witnessed the premiere of his libretto L’Olimpiade in Vienna, a procession of more than 50 composers began to set to music this tale of friendship, loyalty and passion. In the course of the 18th century, theaters across Europe commissioned operas from the Olympian composers of the day, and performances were acclaimed in the royal courts and public opera houses from Rome to Moscow, from Prague to London. Pieto Metastasio In counterpoint to the 2012 Olympic games, Opera Olimpiade has been created to explore and celebrate the diversity of musical expression inspired by this story of the ancient games. Research in Europe and the United States yielded L’Olimpiade manuscripts by many composers, providing the opportunity to extract the finest arias and present Metastasio’s drama through an array of great musical minds of the century. Andrea Marcon will conduct the Venice Baroque Orchestra and a cast of six virtuosi singers—dare we say of Olympic quality—in concert performances of the complete libretto, a succession of 25 spectacular arias and choruses set to music by 16 Title page of David Perez’s L’Olimpiade, premiered in Lisbon in 1753 composers: Caldara, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Leo, Galuppi, Perez, Hasse, Traetta, Jommelli, Piccinni, Gassmann, Mysliveek, Sarti, Cherubini, Cimarosa, and Paisiello. -
Le Cinesi. Revised Libretto by PIETRO METASTASIO, First Set by Nicola Conforto (1751 Aranjuez)
Le cinesi. Revised libretto by PIETRO METASTASIO, first set by Nicola Conforto (1751 Aranjuez). The scene represents a room in the house of Lisinga, decorated in the Chinese manner, with a table and four chairs. Lisinga, Sivene, and Tangia sit together drinking tea in an attitude of total preoccupation. Silango, listens unseen from the partly open door. Lisinga, after observing each of her companions for some time, finally breaks the silence. Bored, three young Chinese women ponder how they might amuse themselves in a manner that would be enjoyable, innocent, and different. Tangia has fleeting thoughts on the matter but they come to nothing. Much to their chagrin, Silango enters to offer his opinion, but since this is a room strictly off-limits to men, reputations are at stake and he must leave – but best to delay until darkness offers its cover. Meanwhile, in spite of his recent travels in Europe, he must realize that he is no longer in France or Italy and must readjust to the customs of his native China. Lisinga suggests that as a group, they perform a dramatic piece. All three agree, but in turning to such a European pastime, each one favours a different genre. Lisinga opts for an heroic drama, while Sivene would have a pastoral and Tangia a comedy. Thus Silango proposes that each one perform a scene in her preferred style and they will adopt the one they consider to be the best. Since her companions hesitate, Lisinga takes the lead and as Andromache, widow of Hector, plays out a scene in which the life of their child, Astyanax, is threatened by Pyrrhus, unless she agree to marry him. -
Pietro Metastasio Demetrio
Pietro Metastasio Demetrio www.liberliber.it Questo e-book è stato realizzato anche grazie al sostegno di: E-text Editoria, Web design, Multimedia http://www.e-text.it/ QUESTO E-BOOK: TITOLO: Demetrio AUTORE: Metastasio, Pietro TRADUTTORE: CURATORE: B. Brunelli NOTE: DIRITTI D'AUTORE: no LICENZA: questo testo è distribuito con la licenza specificata al seguente indirizzo Internet: http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/licenze/ TRATTO DA: "Tutte le opere" di Pietro Metastasio a cura di B. Brunelli, volume I Mondadori Milano, 1954 CODICE ISBN: mancante 1a EDIZIONE ELETTRONICA DEL: 11 dicembre 2002 INDICE DI AFFIDABILITA': 1 0: affidabilità bassa 1: affidabilità media 2: affidabilità buona 3: affidabilità ottima ALLA EDIZIONE ELETTRONICA HANNO CONTRIBUITO: Claudio Paganelli, [email protected] REVISIONE: Vittorio Bertolini, [email protected] PUBBLICATO DA: Claudio Paganelli, [email protected] Stefania Ronci, [email protected] Informazioni sul "progetto Manuzio" Il "progetto Manuzio" è una iniziativa dell'associazione culturale Liber Liber. Aperto a chiunque voglia collaborare, si pone come scopo la pubblicazione e la diffusione gratuita di opere letterarie in formato elettronico. Ulteriori informazioni sono disponibili sul sito Internet: http://www.liberliber.it/ Aiuta anche tu il "progetto Manuzio" Se questo "libro elettronico" è stato di tuo gradimento, o se condividi le finalità del "progetto Manuzio", invia una donazione a Liber Liber. Il tuo sostegno ci aiuterà a far crescere ulteriormente la nostra biblioteca. Qui le istruzioni: http://www.liberliber.it/sostieni/ 2 Pietro Metastasio Demetrio Rappresentato, con musica del CALDARA la prima volta in Vienna, nell’interno gran teatro della cesarea corte alla presenza de’ sovrani, il dì 4 novembre 1731, per festeggiare il nome dell’imperator Carlo VI, d’ordine dell’imperatrice Elisabetta . -
Operatic Danaids Peter Burian ([email protected]) CAMWS 2018
Operatic Danaids Peter Burian ([email protected]) CAMWS 2018 1. Ancient sources A. Apollodorus Bibliotheca 2.1.5 But the sons of Aegyptus came to Argos, and exhorted Danaus to lay aside his enmity, and begged to marry his daughters. Now Danaus distrusted their professions and bore them a grudge on account of his exile; nevertheless, he consented to the marriage and allotted the damsels among them. First, they picked out Hypermnestra as the eldest to be the wife of Lynceus…. When they had got their brides by lot, Danaus made a feast and gave his daughters daggers; and they slew their bridegrooms as they slept, all but Hypermnestra; for she saved Lynceus because he had respected her virginity: wherefore Danaus shut her up and kept her under ward. But the rest of the daughters of Danaus buried the heads of their bridegrooms in Lerna and paid funeral honors to their bodies in front of the city; and Athena and Hermes purified them at the command of Zeus. Danaus afterwards united Hypermnestra to Lynceus; and bestowed his other daughters on the victors in an athletic contest. (trans. J. G. Frazer) B. Hyginus Fabulae 168 Danaus son of Belus had 50 daughters by several wives. His brother Aegyptus had just as many sons, and he wanted to kill his brother Danaus and his daughters so that he alone would possess his father's kingdom. When Danaus first outage is realized what was going on, he fled from Africa to Argos with the help of Minerva, who, they say, built the first two-prowed ship so that Danaus when Egypt is found out could escape. -
MUSIC in the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Western Music in Context: a Norton History Walter Frisch Series Editor
MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Western Music in Context: A Norton History Walter Frisch series editor Music in the Medieval West, by Margot Fassler Music in the Renaissance, by Richard Freedman Music in the Baroque, by Wendy Heller Music in the Eighteenth Century, by John Rice Music in the Nineteenth Century, by Walter Frisch Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, by Joseph Auner MUSIC IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY John Rice n W. W. NORTON AND COMPANY NEW YORK ē LONDON W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William Warder Norton and Mary D. Herter Norton first published lectures delivered at the People’s Institute, the adult education division of New York City’s Cooper Union. The firm soon expanded its program beyond the Institute, publishing books by celebrated academics from America and abroad. By midcentury, the two major pillars of Norton’s publishing program— trade books and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family transferred control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of four hundred and a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published each year—W. W. Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest publishing house owned wholly by its employees. Copyright © 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Editor: Maribeth Payne Associate Editor: Justin Hoffman Assistant Editor: Ariella Foss Developmental Editor: Harry Haskell Manuscript Editor: JoAnn Simony Project Editor: Jack Borrebach Electronic Media Editor: Steve Hoge Marketing Manager, Music: Amy Parkin Production Manager: Ashley Horna Photo Editor: Stephanie Romeo Permissions Manager: Megan Jackson Text Design: Jillian Burr Composition: CM Preparé Manufacturing: Quad/Graphics—Fairfield, PA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rice, John A. -
METASTASIO COLLECTION at WESTERN UNIVERSITY Works Intended for Musical Setting Scores, Editions, Librettos, and Translations In
METASTASIO COLLECTION AT WESTERN UNIVERSITY Works Intended for Musical Setting Scores, Editions, Librettos, and Translations in the Holdings of the Music Library, Western University [London, Ontario] ABOS, Girolamo Alessandro nell’Indie (Ancona 1747) (Eighteenth century) – (Microfilm of Ms. Score) (From London: British Library [Add. Ms. 14183]) Aria: “Se amore a questo petto” (Alessandro [v.1] Act 1, Sc.15) [P.S.M. Ital. Mus. Ms. Sec.A, Pt.1, reel 8] ABOS, Girolamo Artaserse (Venice 1746) (Mid-eighteenth century) – (Microfilm of Ms. Score) (From London: British Library [Add. Ms. 31655]) Aria: “Mi credi spietata?” (Mandane, Act 3, Sc.5) [P.S.M. Ital. Mus. Ms. Sec.C, Pt.2, reel 27] ADOLFATI, Andrea Didone abbandonata (with puppets – Venice 1747) (Venice 1747) – (Venice: Luigi Pavini, 1747) – (Libretto) [W.U. Schatz 57, reel 2] AGRICOLA, Johann Friedrich Achille in Sciro (Berlin 1765) (Berlin 1765) – (Berlin: Haude e Spener, 1765) – (Libretto) (With German rendition as Achilles in Scirus) [W.U. Schatz 66, reel 2] AGRICOLA, Johann Friedrich Alessandro nell’Indie (as Cleofide – Berlin 1754) (Berlin 1754) – (Berlin: Haude e Spener, [1754]) – (Libretto) (With German rendition as Cleofide) [W.U. Schatz 67, reel 2] ALBERTI, Domenico L’olimpiade (no full setting) (Eighteenth century) – (Microfilm of Ms. Score) (From London: British Library [R.M.23.e.2 (1)]) Aria: “Che non mi disse un dì!” (Argene, Act 2, Sc.4) [P.S.M. Ital. Mus. Ms. Sec.B, Pt.4, reel 73] ALBERTI, Domenico Temistocle (no full setting) (Eighteenth century) – (Microfilm of Ms. Score) 2 (From London: British Library [R.M.23.c.19]) Aria: “Ah! frenate il pianto imbelle” (Temistocle, Act 3, Sc.3) [P.S.M. -
Pietro Metastasio Ipermestra
Pietro Metastasio Ipermestra www.liberliber.it Questo e-book è stato realizzato anche grazie al sostegno di: E-text Editoria, Web design, Multimedia http://www.e-text.it/ QUESTO E-BOOK: TITOLO: Ipermestra AUTORE: Metastasio, Pietro TRADUTTORE: CURATORE: B. Brunelli NOTE: DIRITTI D'AUTORE: no LICENZA: questo testo è distribuito con la licenza specificata al seguente indirizzo Internet: http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/licenze/ TRATTO DA: "Tutte le opere" di Pietro Metastasio a cura di B. Brunelli, volume I Mondadori Milano, 1954 CODICE ISBN: mancante 1a EDIZIONE ELETTRONICA DEL: 1 maggio 2003 INDICE DI AFFIDABILITA': 1 0: affidabilità bassa 1: affidabilità media 2: affidabilità buona 3: affidabilità ottima ALLA EDIZIONE ELETTRONICA HANNO CONTRIBUITO: Claudio Paganelli, [email protected] REVISIONE: Vittorio Bertolini, [email protected] PUBBLICATO DA: Claudio Paganelli, [email protected] Stefania Ronci, [email protected] Informazioni sul "progetto Manuzio" Il "progetto Manuzio" è una iniziativa dell'associazione culturale Liber Liber. Aperto a chiunque voglia collaborare, si pone come scopo la pubblicazione e la diffusione gratuita di opere letterarie in formato elettronico. Ulteriori informazioni sono disponibili sul sito Internet: http://www.liberliber.it/ Aiuta anche tu il "progetto Manuzio" Se questo "libro elettronico" è stato di tuo gradimento, o se condividi le finalità del "progetto Manuzio", invia una donazione a Liber Liber. Il tuo sostegno ci aiuterà a far crescere ulteriormente la nostra biblioteca. Qui -
Operatic Reform in Turin
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Artaserse LEONARDO VINCI (1690 – 1730)
©Photo : OpéraNationaldeLorraine Artaserse LEONARDO VINCI (1690 – 1730) > OPERA 2012 HDTV Opera (dramma per musica) in three acts filmeD aT Opéra national de Lorraine Libretto Pietro Mestastasio in November 2012 Created at Theatro Delle Dame, Roma – 4 February 1730 tv DirecTor Louise Narboni This was the last opera Vinci composed running Time 1 x 190’ Artaserse Artistic Information synopsis The main character of Metastasio’s Artaserse is based on the life of king Artaxerxes I of Persia, a ruler of the fifth century B.C., son of Xerxes I. The opera opens in a moonlit garden of the palace of Serse (Xerxes). Mandane, the daughter of King Serse, and Arbace, the son of the King’s general Artabano, are in love. Serse has opposed their marriage and banished Arbace from the palace. Arbace climbs the wall into the garden. As the young lovers express their love for each other and their despair at Arbace’s banishment, Artabano arrives carrying a bloody sword. His fury at Serse’s treatment of his son and his desire for Arbace to become King have led him to assassinate Serse. Artabano confesses the murder to Arbace and exchanges his bloody sword for that of Arbace. Artaserse, the King’s younger son, arrives with his guards. Artabano tells him of his father’s death and accuses Artaserse’s older brother Dario of the murder, « Who but he at dead of night could penetrate the palace? Who approach the royal bed? Nay, more, his royal ambition... » Artaserse commands Artabano to avenge his father’s death by killing Dario. -
Costumes Within Opera Seria Hierarchies: a Case Study from Dresden
CHRISTINE FISCHER COSTUMES WITHIN OPERA SERIA HIERARCHIES: A CASE STUDY FROM DRESDEN One of the most difficult aspects about historic opera performances is their interdisciplinarity: indeed, a broad-ranging expertise is necessary in order to approach historical settings and staging procedures, including costumes and their manifold meaning within a performance. To look at costumes ‘only’ as historical dresses for singers, e.g. from the viewpoint of an art historian, though necessary, does not take into account the network of other artistic codes in which the representation of a costume on an opera stage is interwoven. In this study I attempt, as a musicologist, to contextualize costumes within the performance beyond their own realm, in a constant dialogue with the other art forms on stage.1 SOURCES My case study centers on the Dresden court at the height of its operatic cul- ture during the 1750s during the pivotal collaboration between Pietro Metasta- sio and Johann Adolf Hasse. Three volumes held in Kupferstichkabinett Dres- den, which include costume drawings, are among others by da Ponte held in Vienna (Albertina), the most valuable sources concerning costumes for this time: 1) Dresden Kupferstichkabinett, Ca 103 Attilio Regolo, Hasse / Metastasio, Dresden, 1750 2) Dresden Kupferstichkabinett, Ca 104 L’Ipermestra, Hasse / Metastasio, Dresden, 1751 3) Dresden Kupferstichkabinett, Ca 105 L’Olimpiade, Hasse / Metastasio, Dresden, 1756 They were drawn by Francesco Ponte, who was Kammerzahlmeister of the Polish Queen and Saxon Electress Maria Josepha. Supposedly Ponte created costumes for the operas performed at the Dresden court from 1744 to 1756. The art historian Kathrin Schlechte described and analyzed these sources in a chap- ter of an exhibition catalogue and in her unpublished Master’s thesis.2 The vol- 1 The work presented here is the result of an interdisciplinary project conducted at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and funded by the Swiss National Foundation (for more details on this project see the following LINK). -
Transcripts of Dramatic Musical Works in Full Score
TRANSCRIPTS OF DRAMATIC MUSICAL WORKS IN FULL SCORE AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MUSIC DIVISION Compiled by Susan Clermont Senior Music Specialist Library of Congress Music Division A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRANSCRIPTS OF DRAMATIC MUSICAL WORKS IN FULL SCORE AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS This bibliography comprises close to 700 transcripts of dramatic musical works in full score copied from original music manuscripts and early imprints for the Library of Congress’s Music Division between 1903 and 1939. The original sources were located in over three dozen European libraries in Austria, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Russia. The majority of the operas cited in this document date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; about fifteen percent are reproductions of nineteenth-century works. Also included in this bibliography are transcripts of incidental music for dramas, melodramas, ballets, and pantomimes (see Appendix B). Finally, Appendix C comprises a short list of instrumental works, mostly for viola da gamba, that were transcribed over a two-year period when the parameters of this project were provisionally broadened. In 1902, a new set of guidelines for the systematic development of the newly-reorganized Music Division’s collections was instituted: opera immediately received a considerable share of attention because, “the peculiar condition of opera in the United States seemed to demand that a center of reference and research be created for the students of opera.” [Oscar Sonneck, Dramatic Music: Catalogue of Full Scores…, 1908] Accordingly, a series of “want lists” were compiled; however, when it was determined after a comprehensive search that hundreds of items included on the Music Division’s desiderata list for operas in full score were unprocurable in manuscript or print versions, the option of contracting copyists to generate transcripts was explored.