Handel - Hercules "Where shall I fly?" Magdalena Kožená
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Uploaded by civileso on May 25, 2008
George Frideric Handel
Hercules, HWV 60
"Where shall I fly?"
Recitativo Accompagnato from the act III, sc.3 (Dejanira)
Hercules (HWV 60) is a drama in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The English-language libretto was by Thomas Broughton after the Trachiniae of Sophocles and the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/hercules.htm
Composed: 19 July - 17 August 1744
First performance: 5 January 1745: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket. (Also 12 January.)
In this recording:
Magdalena Kožená (from the album "Ah mio cor")
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Original cast from first performance:
Hercules : Henry Theodore Reinhold (bass)
Dejanira : Miss Robinson (mezzosoprano)
Iole : Elisabeth Duparc, called "La Francesina" (soprano)
Hyllus : John Beard (tenor)
Lichas : Susanna Maria Cibber (alto)
Revivals:
24 February 1749: London, Covent Garden Theatre (1 performance)
21 February 1752: London, Covent Garden Theatre (1 performance)
Dejanira:
Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?
Oh fatal error of misguided love!
Oh cruel Nessus, how art thou revenged!
Wretched I am! By me Alcides dies!
These impious hands have sent my injured lord
untimely to the shades!
Let me be mad!
Chain me, ye furies, to your iron beds.
And lash my guilty ghosts with whips of scorpions!
See! See! They come! Alecto with her snakes,
Megaera fell, and black Tisiphone!
See the dreadful sisters rise.
Their baneful presence taints the skies!
See the snaky whips they bear!
What yellings rend my tortured ear!
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@skitzo429 your ears are kind of ...
I like Magdalena, her voice and rather evrything she touches
long live relativity;)
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I the conductor. :P
Baroque ending without riterdando = amazing
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not sure what happened to the word "mad" at 1:06 but hey... she's amazing nonetheless.
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I love her, her voice is like a velvet.
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her voice is kind of ugly
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She goes too far occasionally, but for the most part this is exquisite!
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Me fascina esta pieza! Es excelsa
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Bravo!!!!
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cool AV
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UndeniableLust 2 years ago 5
her accent is awesome! XD
Seems a little musically sometimes; who am i to whine, though?
Satirike 3 years ago 4