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‘Per desiderio di farsi onore’: Singers and the Adaptation of Arias in Italian drammi per musica of the Early Eighteenth-Century Italy Cover

‘Per desiderio di farsi onore’: Singers and the Adaptation of Arias in Italian drammi per musica of the Early Eighteenth-Century Italy

By: Anne Desler  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Farnace, Bologna 1731, Cast List

Figure 2

Substitute aria text for Artabano (Grimaldi), Artaserse, II.4, Bologna 1730

Musical Example 1

‘Amalo e se al tuo sguardo’, aria for Artabano (Grimaldi) in Hasse, Artaserse, II.4, Venice 1730, opening of vocal line, bars 13-17

Figure 2

Metastasio’s aria text for Semira, Artaserse, III.6, Rome, 1730

Figure 4

Substitute aria text for Artaserse (Caffarelli), Artaserse, II.4, Milan 1731

Tempest Arias in Demetrio, Vicenza 1734

Act IAct IIAct III
I.4 Alceste/Demetrio: ‘Scherza il Nocchier talora’ (Farinelli) III.4 Alceste /Demetrio ‘Son qual nave, che aggitata’ [sic] (Farinelli)
I.5 Olinto: ‘Da più venti combattuta’ (Francesco Bilancioni)I.7 Olinto: ‘Vede il Nocchier la sponda’ (Francesco Bilancioni)
I.9 Alceste/Demetrio ‘Navigante che sol spera’ (Farinelli) III.10 Barsene: ‘Se troppo crede al ciglio’ (Caterina Giorgi)

Tempest Arias in L’innocenza giustificata, Florence 1734

Act IAct IIAct III
II.1 Artabano: ‘Nell’orribile procella’ (Lorenzo Saletti)III.3 Astiage: ‘Benchè spiri a Ciel sereno’ (Farinelli)
I.8 Feraspe: ‘Vede orgogliosa l’onda’ (Angiolo Amorevoli)II.7 Astiage: ‘Non fidi al Mar, che freme’ (Farinelli)III.4 Arbace: ‘Fuggirò, ma non poss’io’ (Giovanna Guaetta)
I.14 Astiage: ‘Scherza il Nocchier talora’ (Farinelli)II.10 Astiage: ‘Colle procelle in seno’ (Farinelli)III.8 Trio: Statira, Astiage, Feraspe: ‘Da rea tempesta’ (Vittoria Tesi, Farinelli, Angiolo Amorevoli)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/muso-2021-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2353-5733 | Journal ISSN: 1734-1663
Language: English
Page range: 53 - 64
Published on: Dec 31, 2021
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
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