NEW RELEASE 2010 – DECEMBER
Composer
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
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Title
LA DIDONE
Conductor
FABIO BIONDI
Orchestra / Ensemble / Choir
Europa Galante
Code / (no. of supports)
CDS 537/ 1-2
(2 CDs)
Barcode: 8007144605377
Category: OPERA
Audio Format: DDD
Total running time: CD1 75’12 – CD2 65’59
Notes: Ita / Eng / Fre / Ger
Recording date & place: Sept. 2006 – LA FENICE
Packaging: Jewel box
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CAST
Didone
Enea
Iarba / Corebo
Cassandra / Giunone / Damigella
Ecuba / Mercurio / Ilioneo
Creusa / Anna / Damigella
Ascanio / Amore / Fortuna
Anchise / Sicheo / Eolo
Acate / Pirro
Sinon greco / Un vecchio
Venere / Iridde / Damigella
Giove / Nettuno / Un cacciatore
STRONG POINTS
Mc Fadden Claron
Staveland Magnus
Domènech Jordi
Custer Manuela
De Liso Marina
Lombardi Donatella
Alvarez Isabel
Lozano Antonio
Zoccatelli Gian Luca
Morace Filippo
Schiavo Maria Grazia
Abbondanza Roberto
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INFORMATION
Didone is an opera, set to a libretto by Giovanni
Francesco Busenello (later librettist for Claudio
Monteverdi). The opera was first performed at Venice's
Teatro San Cassiano during 1641.
The plot is based on Virgil's Aeneid (Book 4 in particular),
though Busenello, in his second libretto for Cavalli,
replaces Dido's tragic suicide of Virgil with a happy ending
in which Dido marries Iarbas, King of the Getuli, who saves
Dido from herself after Aeneas abandons her. The action
is divided into a prologue and 3 acts.
direction given to the original story by the librettist Gian
Francesco Busenello, noble amateur.
Likewise Pier Francesco Cavalli for the first time sets
about writing the music for a story that is both tragic and
heroic with an almost unwonted deployment of means and
new expressive intent.
He studies and enriches the work’s language inserting
dramatic substance and striving for a melodic conception
that certainly recalls that of his ‘maestro’ Monteverdi yet
also steps beyond it.
“This opera smacks of modern opinions. It is not made in
respect of the ancient rules; [...].” Thus begins the
composer in the “Argomento” that precedes the libretto
of Didone for performance at the San Cassiano Theatre in
Venice in 1641 and immediately delineates the new
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TRACKS
CD 1
Prologo
1
Caduta è Troia (Iride)
02’58
First act
2
Armi, armi di Enea (Creusa, Enea, Acate, Ascanio)
3
Non perdonate al tempio? (Cassandra)
4
L’alma fiacca svanì (Cassandra)
5
O con qual gusto (Sinon Greco)
6
Vaneggiante fanciullo (Anchise)
7
Omai pon freno (Venere)
8
Andianne, o genitore (Enea)
9
Diva, anzi più che diva (Venere)
08’27
08’33
04’26
03’06
03’34
02’18
04’04
04’42
Second act
10
Per eccesso d’affetto (Iarba)
11
Re de’ Getuli altero (Didone)
12
Stamane, mentre l’alba (Didone)
13
Le ceneri troiane (Giunone)
14
Smoderati insolenti (Nettuno)
15
Già del lido africano (Venere)
16
Campioni invitti e gloriosi eroi (Enea)
17
Mirate là signor (Acate)
02’49
07’32
04’46
04’38
01’48
03’34
04’15
03’32
TT.
75’12
CD 2
1
2
3
4
5
Giunge un ambasciator (Dama Prima)
Bellissima Regina (Enea)
Udiste, udiste o mie dilette (Dama Prima)
O castità bugiarda (Iarba)
O bella oltre ogni stima (Iarba)
04’58
04’01
03’49
04’04
03’00
Third act
6
Qual violenza interna (Didone)
7
O regina, o mia pupilla (Anna)
8
Pur t’ho colto, assassina (Iarba)
9
Al cinghiale, al cinghiale (Coro)
10
Mercurio, vedi tu (Giove)
11
Enea, che fai (Mercurio)
12
Dormi cara (Enea)
13
Perfido, disleale (Didone)
14
Enea rivolto ha il piede (Dama Prima)
15
Ecco Iarba impazzito (Mercurio)
16
Porgetemi la spada (Didone)
17
O dei, che veggio, o dei (Iarba)
05’54
04’14
04’09
02’33
01’19
02’42
02’46
07’21
01’21
03’32
03’47
06’19
TT.
65’59
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