- Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730): Didone abbandonata, Act I:
- 1 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Sinfonia 04:50
- 2 Didone abbandonata, Act I: No principessa, amico 05:18
- 3 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Dirò che fida sei 06:48
- 4 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Venga arbace qual vuole 00:31
- 5 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Marcia 01:00
- 6 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Vedi mio re 02:58
- 7 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Son regina e sono amante 04:09
- 8 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Araspe, alla vendetta 01:56
- 9 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Tra lo splendor del trono 04:08
- 10 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Già tel dissi o selene 02:03
- 11 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Quando saprai chi sono 03:31
- 12 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Da lui che brami 02:02
- 13 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Son quel fiume 04:47
- 14 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Lo so, quel cor feroce 00:17
- 15 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Sulla pendice alpina 05:14
- 16 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Come? Da' labbri tuoi dido saprà 03:40
- 17 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Non ha ragione 04:09
- 18 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Tanto amor, tanti doni 01:21
- 19 Didone abbandonata, Act I: Se resto sul lido 04:48
- Didone abbandonata, Act II:
- 20 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Mal dissimula i torti 02:08
- 21 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Leon ch'errando vada 03:47
- 22 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Ah contro Enea 01:19
- 23 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Ardi per me fedele 03:25
- 24 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Già so che si nasconde 04:22
- 25 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Se vuoi ch'io mora 07:59
- 26 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Io sento vacillar 01:06
- 27 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Vedi nel mio perdono 03:45
- 28 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Per poco che la sorte 00:40
- 29 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Son quest'idoli vani 03:05
- 30 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Di te sin'ora in traccia 01:19
- 31 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Sono intrepido nell'alma 04:09
- 32 Didone abbandonata, Act II: All'or che Araspe 01:03
- 33 Didone abbandonata, Act II: L'augelletto in lacci stretto 03:27
- 34 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Incerta del mio fato 06:04
- 35 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Chiamami pur così 03:27
- 36 Didone abbandonata, Act II: E pur in mezzo all'ire 00:24
- 37 Didone abbandonata, Act II: Prende ardire e si conforta 03:45
- Didone abbandonata, Act III:
- 38 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Compagni invitti 00:40
- 39 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Sinfonia 00:59
- 40 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Dove rivolge quest'Enea fuggitivo 01:26
- 41 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Vivi superbo 02:24
- 42 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Ed io son vinto 00:27
- 43 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Cadrà fra poco in cenere 03:55
- 44 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Già di Iarba in difesa 03:19
- 45 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Quando l'onda 03:19
- 46 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Addio Selene 01:21
- 47 Didone abbandonata, Act III: A trionfar mi chiama 03:00
- 48 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Dove amata Selene 01:02
- 49 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Se ti lagni sventurato 04:12
- 50 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Va crescendo il mio tormento 01:36
- 51 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Deh regina, pietà 03:42
- 52 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Già si desta la tempesta 02:09
- 53 Didone abbandonata, Act III: I miei casi infelici 08:13
- 54 Didone abbandonata, Act III: Vado ma dove... 02:39
Info for Vinci: Didone abbandonata
Didone abbandonata was one of the greatest successes in the rather brief operatic career of Leonardo Vinci, a musician who apparently led an adventurous life, based on what little we know about it. Written for Rome’s Teatro delle Dame, the opera was premièred during the 1726 Carnival season. It marked the start of a fruitful collaboration between Vinci and Pietro Metastasio – in the four years following Didone abbandonata, Metastasio went on to write no fewer than five new librettos for Vinci. The success of that Rome première is replicated in this live recording from the Teatro de Firenze, which represents the first modern performance of Didone abbandonata and the revival of one of the great masterpieces of early 18th-century opera.
“I am a Queen and I am a lover / and I want the Empire for myself / of my throne and of my heart”: these are the words which the poet Pietro Metastasio gave to Dido, the Queen of Carthage. The opera takes inspiration from the myth to present a resolute and proud woman, abandoned by her lover Aeneas, bothered by a suitor - Iarbas - who she does not want, tricked by her sister Anna, who she discovered was Aeneas’s lover, and betrayed by her confidante Osmida. The opera was a great success during the 1724 carnival in Naples, which led to more than 60 different musical versions: Metastasio’s libretto was also taken on by Händel, Paisiello and Mercadante. The version proposed here is from 1726 by Leonardo Vinci, considered to be one of the most important interpreters of the Neapolitan operatic school.
Roberta Mameli (Didone)
Carlo Allemano (Enea)
Raffaele Pé (Iarba)
Gabriella Costa (Selene)
Marta Pluda (Araspe)
Giada Frasconi (Osmida)
Giovanni Bellini, theorbo
Alessandra Artifoni, harpsichord
Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra
Carlo Ipata, conductor
Recorded at the Opera di Firenze Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, January 2017
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