Cavalli - il Giasone "Delizie Contente" Cecilia Bartoli

I recommend full screen viewing, since I stupidly made the score look too small to read, oops:)

Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Il Giasone
"Delizie Contente"

This recording:

Cecilia Bartoli - Se tu m'ami (If you love me)
Piano: György Fischer


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Giasone (Jason) is an opera in three acts and a prologue with music by Francesco Cavalli and a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. It was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano during the Venetian carnival season of 1649. Giasone was "the single most popular opera of the 17th century".The plot is loosely based on the story of Jason and the golden fleece, but the opera contains many comic elements too."

from Wikpedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc...

"Cavalli was the most influential composer in the rising genre of public opera in mid-17th century Venice. Unlike Monteverdi's early operas, scored for the extravagant court orchestra of Mantua, Cavalli's operas make use of a small orchestra of strings and
basso continuo to meet the limitations of public opera houses.

Cavalli introduced melodious arias into his music and popular types into his libretti. His operas have a remarkably strong sense of dramatic effect as well as a great musical facility, and a grotesque humour which was characteristic of Italian grand opera down
to the death of Alessandro Scarlatti. Cavalli's operas provide the only example of a continuous musical development of a single composer in a single genre from the early to the late 17th century in Venice — only a few operas by others (e.g. Monteverdi and Antonio Cesti) survive. The development is
particularly interesting to scholars because opera was still quite a new medium when Cavalli began working, and had matured into a popular public spectacle by the end of his career.

Cavalli wrote thirty-three operas, twenty-seven of which are still extant, being preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Library of St Mark) at Venice. Copies of some of the operas also exist in
other locations. In addition, nine other operas have been attributed to him, though the music is lost and attribution impossible to prove."

for further reading:
http://www.hoasm.org/VIIF/Cavalli.html

Full libretto and further analysis on:
http://www.librettidopera.it/giasone/...



Italian Text:

Delizie contente, che l'alma beate fermate.
Su questo mio core deh più,
deh più non stillate le gioie d'amore.
Delizie mie care, fermatevi qui:
non so più bramare, mi basta così.

In grembo agli amori fra dolci catene morir,
morir mi conviene, dolcezza omicida a morte,
a morte mi guida, mi guida in braccio al mio bene.


English Translation (Bertram Kottmann):


Joyful delights, making my soul blissful, come to an end.
On my very heart
do not trickle the joys of love any more.
Dear pleasures, come to an end now:
I cannot desire any longer, it is enough.
In Cupid's lap, in sweet chains I would like to expire.
Mortal sweetness, guide me to death
in the arms of my beloved.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Francesco
• Cavalli
• Giasone
• Delizie
• Contente
• Cecilia
• Bartoli
• Mezzo
• Soprano
• Venice
• Opera
• classical

[beatriz170]

Hi! :) Can you please tell me where can I find this score online? Or maybe you could just send it to me... Because I'll have to sing this in my singing exam and I can't find it anywhere! Thanks

[civileso]

Did you really try to find it? It can be found in one of the most accessible books for vocal students. You gotta be able to find Parisotti's "Arie Antiche, Vol.II" if you have a music store somewhere in your area. And it beats me why your vocal teacher(s) can't provide it for you. Not to mention, it is available to download for free at Art Song Central website. Just do a Google search for it.

[sopranobrasile]

Of course!! Thank you, i'm going to ricordi to buy it..

I'm looking also for a compiltation called "LA Flora" but they told me it out of print..

looking from scores of Tamerlano di Handel.

[civileso]

You can find all Handel scores online at IMSLP website as pdf files.

[civileso]

Yes, I believe so. She shows an example of how to perform these arias the way they are in Parisotti's piano arrangements. I would still love to hear them performed as they were composed originally, for a change. See the Michael Chance version of this aria that I posted. Simply another world altogether. Another example: "Nel cor più non mi sento" by Paisielo sounds so different and beautiful as it appears in his opera "La Molinara".

[MisterPapageno]

@beatriz170 if you look on IMSLP and look for Parisotti, there is the second volume which contains this aria

[AleC88able]

I love Cecilia Bartoli, she is excellent and an example to any singer

[nimrodJohn2009]

I loved it. A varied melody and sensitively accompanied.

[mrkkerekes]

very nice...

[Sammyjda]

WOW ella si es sorprendente.... tiene una vocalizacion estupenda y un perfecto dialecto... mis respetos

[thedavid9010]

please tell me who singing delizie contente  in il giasone ... medeaa?? please answer me...

[Devil5Inside]

Very good!....

[zasesdea]

i love her....

[civileso]

For those who wonder what I replied to: "Bartoli's masterful interpretatation should feature her performance, as oposed to the score, which means little to the listener. Heartfelt ovation. K.Czerny."