Handel: Partenope "Dimmi, pietoso Ciel" Scholl

High resolution and stereo sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAyqbY5luWs&fmt=18

If you want to download the full radio broadcast recording of Copenhagen Partenope, here is the link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ET1H8BNT

Enjoy!


G.F. Handel (1685-1759)

Aria: Dimmi, pietoso Ciel

from Act I, Sc. 9 of Partenope, HWV 27
Comic opera in three acts

Libretto by: Silvio Stampiglia

Premiere: King's Theatre, London, 24 February 1730

Original Cast in 1730:

Partenope: Anna Maria Strada del Pò, soprano
Rosmira: Antonia Maria Merighi, contralto
Arsace: Antonio Maria Bernacchi, alto castrato
Armindo: Francesca Bertolli, mezzo-soprano
Emilio: Annibale Pio Fabri, tenor
Ormonte: Johann Gottfried Riemschneider, basso


In this video:

Andreas Scholl, countertenor (as Arsace)
Concerto Copenhagen,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Det Kongelige Teater (Gamle Scene), Copenhagen
11 October 2008

The cast:

Partenope: Inger Dam-Jensen
Arsace: Andreas Scholl
Armindo: Christophe Dumaux
Rosmira: Tuva Semmingsen
Emilio: Bo Kristian Jensen
Ormonte: Palle Knudsen

Concerto Copenhagen,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen


Handel wrote Partenope in 1730, a time in his life when he was free to choose a wider range of librettos.

"It was Handel's first comic opera, which broke away from the Opera Seria tradition. It was rejected by the Royal Academy of Music, because of its frivolous nature, with relatively few extended arias and more recitative." - Wikipedia.


ARSACE
Dimmi, pietoso Ciel,
di queste belle mie quale abbandono?

Se torno al primo amore,
par che il secondo esclami: "Ah, traditore!"
Se a questo poi mi volto,
quello gridare ascolto
con lamentevol suono:
"Ricordati, infedel, che il primo io sono."

Translation (by Marc D. and Eser):

ARSACES
Tell me, merciful Sky,
which one of these beauties do I abandon?

If I return to my first love,
the second one will cry, "Ah, traitor!"
If I turn to the latter,
I hear the former screaming
in a plaintive voice:
"Remember, unfaithful one, that I was first."

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[palcika1]

Thank you for all of these!

Could you post "Sento amor" from this performance, please? I'm dying to hear it again...

Or, if it's not asking too much, could you perhaps pass me the whole recording you made? I missed the broadcast.

[civileso]

I have some others to post. I try to do justice to other singers, too. So, I'll see about Sento amor.

About the recording: I wouldn't call it "whole"; there were many problems with the broadcast. But I'm preparing a little gift to my YT friends with what I have.

[LoRau]

He was singing with a cold, i think.

[hswatnik]

very interesting and instructive clip-

[ibe8pud]

I love this video

[Hamlynhyde]

Wonderful, as always! Thank you for posting!