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Le Due Duchesse JOHANN SIMON MAYR LE DUEOPERA DUCHESSE IN 2 ACTS Schäfer ∙ Herbert ∙ Hasselhorn ∙ Mattersberger ∙ Mallmann Ahn ∙ Jo ∙ Choi ∙ Feith ∙ Lindemann ∙ Thum Simon Mayr Chorus and Members of the Bavarian State Opera Chorus Concerto de Bassus Franz Hauk 1 Sinfonia 6:52 Act II * Aria e Coro La Duchessa è ascosa là… 2:23 Act I (Coro, Pietro) 2 Introduzione Ecco il castello castel vietato 17:27 ( Recitativo Com’han fatto a vederla? 2:34 Johann Simon (Guglielmo, Loredano, Coro, Betzi, Berto) (Pietro, Loredano, Malvina) 3 Recitativo Parlare alla Duchessa? 1:12 ) Recitativo Che dici? 0:48 MAYR (Berto, Betzi, Laura) (Loredano, Malvina) (1763-1845) 4 Duetto Un marito cacciatore 6:47 ¡ Duetto Morte!… 8:08 (Laura, Berto) (Malvina, Loredano) 5 Recitativo Oggi mio caro Berto 1:50 ™ Recitativo Maledetto quel lupo! 2:28 (Laura, Berto) (Berto, Pietro, Coro) Le due duchesse 6 Sortita Giorni i momenti sono 6:25 £ Aria e Coro Ascoltate, o figlie oneste 5:01 ossia La caccia dei lupi (Malvina) (Berto, Coro di Villanelle e Villanelli, 7 Coro di Cacciatori) Opera semiseria in two acts (1814) Recitativo Quant dubbi e timori 2:07 (Malvina, Betzi, Enrico) ¢ Recitativo Amici, il bosco e il monte 2:14 Libretto by Felice Romani (1788–1865) 8 Duetto Per voler del mio Signore 9:35 (Artur, Ruggiero, Pietro, Malvina, Laura) (Enrico, Malvina) – Recitativo In quelle vesti!… 0:34 9 Recitativo Ahimè! Che brutto muso 1:24 (Malvina, Laura) ................................................................................................................ Edgar Young-Jun Ahn, Tenor (Berto, Betzi) § Sestetto Deh! Prendetevi una volta 13:47 Loredano .............................................................................................................Jaegyeong Jo, Bass 0 Coro Presto i nastri 1:11 (Laura, Malvina, Enrico, Berto, Edgar, Loredano) Malvina .......................................................................................................... Eun-Hye Choi, Soprano (Coro di Donzelle) ¶ Recitativo Come, diamine è andata ! la faccenda! 0:53 Enrico .............................................................................................................. Markus Schäfer, Tenor Recitativo Tant’è: non son contenta 0:35 (Laura, Betzi, Enrico) (Berto, Pietro) Artur ................................................................................................................Jörn Lindemann, Tenor @ Recitativo Comincio a poco a poco 2:36 • Coro Non più gioja 1:44 Ruggiero .............................................................................................................. Harald Thum, Tenor (Laura, Betzi, Berto, Enrico) (Coro di Vassalli) ª Laura .................................................................................................... Tina Marie Herbert, Soprano # Aria Passò quel tempo 7:02 Recitativo Lasciami 3:07 (Laura, Enrico, Betzi, Berto, Coro) (Edgar, Ruggiero, Artur, Enrico, Malvina) ..................................................................................................................... Betzi Anna Feith, Soprano $ Recitativo Laura con sì belli abiti! 0:32 º Recitativo Vostra consorte! 2:18 Berto....................................................................................................Samuel Hasselhorn, Baritone (Berto) (Malvina, Edgar) Guglielmo .......................................................................................................Niklas Mallmann, Bass % Coro ed Aria Viva! Viva! Un dì festivo 8:55 ⁄ Aria e Coro Deh! Per quel dolce oggetto 4:50 (Malvina, Edgar, Coro) Pietro .................................................................................................. Andreas Mattersberger, Bass (Coro, Edgar, Enrico) ^ Recitativo Ma dov’è la Duchessa? 2:14 ¤ Recitativo Ah! Se a scoprir Coro di Donzelle, Coro di Villanelle e Villanelli, Coro di Cacciatori, Coro di Vassalli (Edgar, Artur, Enrico, Ruggiero) l’inganno ancor tardava 0:48 & Finale I Perdonate 18:56 (Edgar, Artur) Simon Mayr Chorus and Members of the Bavarian State Opera Chorus (Edgar, Laura, Enrico, Ruggiero, Artur, Berto, ‹ Finale II Della provincia intera 14:52 Concerto de Bassus Loredano, Coro) (Coro, Berto, Laura, Edgar, Loredano, Ruggiero, Artur, Enrico, Malvina) Theona Gubba-Chkeidze, Concertmaster Franz Hauk, Harpsichord and Conductor Johann Simon Mayr (1763–1845) On the opening night there was generous applause both Ad fontes (Go to the sources): A note on the sources for the excellent cast – Giovanni David (Edgar, King of England; Le due duchesse tenor), Filippo Galli (Loredano, Earl of Devonshire; bass), This edition is based primarily on a copy of the full score held Mayr’s Le due duchesse – a magnificent opera buffa elements; the heroine’s name is changed to Malvina, one Francesca Maffei Festa (Malvina, soprano), Luigi Mari (Enrico, in the Biblioteca civica Angelo Mai in Bergamo (I-BGc Mayr in the Romantic style that often crops up elsewhere; she loses her aura of nobility Duke of Athelvold; tenor), Lorenza Corrèa (Laura; soprano) 186, 187). The Sinfonia is lacking in this transcript; in the and charges a double, her simple-minded chambermaid and Andrea Verni (Berto, chief huntsman and chatelain; bass) women’s chorus ‘Presto i nastri’ 0 much of the text hasn’t In the 18th century, the English Pre-Romantic poet William Laura, to deceive the hunting-mad king. Laura, who merely – and, above all, for the composer. Mayr was repeatedly called been written in; and harmonically abrupt transitions in the Mason (1724–1797) reworked legends surrounding the spouts quotations and proverbs and who is actually engaged out to take a bow. The critics were unanimous in highlighting recitatives suggest that they have been cut. During a two- 10th-century Anglo-Saxon king Edgar ‘the Peaceful’ (Latin: to Enrico di Athelwold’s chatelain and chief huntsman Berto, the originality and effectiveness of the work. The duets in day visit to Milan, the Archivio storico Ricordi kindly allowed Ēadgārus pacificus) and the legend of Æthelwold and is made palatable to Edgar as a consort befitting his social Act I (for Laura and Berto and for Malvina and Enrico) and us to consult the autograph score (I-Mr Le due duchesse Ælfthryth, taking Greek tragedy as his model and publishing rank (hence the title ‘The Two Duchesses’ and the subtitle ‘The Edgar’s big opera seria-style aria were singled out for special PART02690; formerly E.VI.3-4) for comparison. This score not his work in 1752 as the dramatic poem Elfrida. Towards the Wolf Hunt’). praise. Mayr had allowed himself a musical joke at the end only contains all the parts missing in Bergamo, it also shows end of the century, the poem found its way into Italian opera On 7 November 1814 the dramma semiserio per musica of this number, however, setting the lines ‘Amico, coraggio! a number of cuts and insertions in Mayr’s hand, and possibly when Giovanni Paisiello set the chivalric material using a text in due atti Le due duchesse ossia La caccia dei lupi was given Contento, allegria! E’ lecito al saggio far qualche pazzia’ as a in other handscripts. These affect in particular the entry of prepared by Gluck’s famous librettist Ranieri de’ Calzabigi. its first performance at La Scala in Milan. There was only one Ländler; a contemporary reviewer reports that this deliberate Malvina with harp solo: ‘Giorni i momenti’ 6, Recitative: Paisiello’s opera seria Elfrida premiered on 4 November 1792 revival, in 1819 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. As was amalgamation of stylistic registers, which was not untypical of ‘Quanti dubbi’ 7, Recitative: ‘Amici’, with a cut from ‘la faccia at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples sporting the then-obligatory usual in such cases, the buffo role of Berto was rewritten in Mayr, was the only thing that had failed to make an impression veder da’ cacciatori’ to ‘ma lasciatemi andar’ ¢, Malvina’s lieto fine or happy ending. It was a huge success and enjoyed Neapolitan dialect for the production. Romani was to recycle and had never been applauded. aria: ‘Deh per quel dolce oggetto’ ⁄ and Finale II ‹. These numerous revivals, including a modern production in Savona his libretto for the composer Filippo Celli (1782–1856), so that Around 1814 it was already impossible to avoid being later alterations are already incorporated in the libretto. This in 1990. the opera was given again, with a few textual changes and influenced, consciously and unconsciously, by the young also includes an appendix suggesting a cut in Scenes 6–8 Johann Simon Mayr was also fascinated by medieval fresh music, in Florence on 8 September 1824. genius Rossini, who was steadily conquering Italian opera which Mayr adopted in his work. ‘Dopo il Duettino di Malvina England, especially during his final creative phase. Shortly Romani’s libretto can justifiably be described as early (in a positive way). We therefore find in Mayr’s third and ed Enrico’, the autograph score has a secco recitative: before composing Le due duchesse, he wrote an opera about Romantic; this mindset was first able to develop freely in the last creative period numerous Rossinisms, though always ‘Altezza’. Articulation marks are more carefully distinguished, the Wars of the Roses (La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa, Genoa, genere semiserio, where there was no need to observe the tempered by his own nobility and restraint. To put it simply, even though telling a dot from a stroke is often problematical. 21.8.1813), and one of his last operas was to be about King conventions of opera seria. Opera semiseria is responsible Mayr’s individual style derives from the
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