The Music of Semiramide
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Arias from the 18th and 19th Centuries for Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano
This elegant volume presents, in the first modern edition (and largely in the first edition in absolute), thirteen arias in a reduction for voice and piano from operas of the 18th and 19th centuries dedicated to the fascinating personality of Semiramide. The publication accompanies, in this rediscovery activity, the recording of Semiramide. La Signora regale (©2014 DHM-Sony), winner of The International Opera Award 2015.
Besides giving birth to an exciting musical journey on the traces of the historical and human personality of the first Queen of the Orient, this collection is of significant importance from a musicological point of view. In fact, the publication of the scene from La morte di Semiramide – attributed to Sebastiano Nasolini and sung by Isabella Colbran in Naples in August 1815 – in which are contained large sections composed by Gioachino Rossini completely unknown before the mentioned recording Semiramide. La Signora regale (2014), is testifying de facto – albeit in disguise – Gioachino Rossini’s debut in Naples on a date antecedent to the one always believed. The same importance for the historian as the performer assumes, furthermore, the publication of the first version of the Rossinian «Bel raggio lusinghier», reconstructed directly from the autograph manuscript of Semiramide, preserved today in Venice.
Between the copious and particularly beautiful musical pages proposed in the volume (that also consent to bring to light composers today unjustly forgotten as Bernasconi, Bertoni, or Borghi and, at the same time, to discover lesser-known jewels by celebrated Porpora, Caldara, Händel, Jommelli, and Paisiello), are indicated the intense cavatina «Son infelice, son sventurata», that has been discovered to have been written by Girolamo Crescentini, as well as «Al mio pregar t’arrendi» from Semiramis by Manuel García (Ciudad de México, 1828), “saved” from a state of serious deterioration that has made almost illegible the autograph manuscript.
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