Rani Calderon, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide (2007)
Rani Calderon, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 595 Mb | Total time: 76:25+77:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 533/1-2 | Recorded: 2006
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 595 Mb | Total time: 76:25+77:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 533/1-2 | Recorded: 2006
Meyerbeer’s opera, written four years before Rossini’s Semiramide, is based on an adaptation, probably done by Count Ludovico Piossasco Feys, of the libretto written by Pietro Metastasio in the far-off year of 1729, which had already been set to music several times by leading composers of the eighteenth century. Count Piossasco Feys worked skilfully and transformed the Metastasio tragedy, based on the classical alternation recitative - solo aria, into a more agile, modern structure, including a smaller number of arias, duets, trios and ensemble pieces. Meyerbeer’s opera was written for one of the most esteemed singers of the day, Carolina Bassi, a performer with a great vocal range that enabled her to give of her best both in contralto and in soprano roles. In the early part of the opera, where Semiramide dresses in men’s clothing, passing herself off as her son, Meyerbeer writes her part using a rather low register. Only after she has revealed her true nature as a woman can Semiramide free herself vocally and rise up to the higher notes of the soprano register. Perhaps because of the fact that it was made to measure for a singer with such peculiar vocal characteristics, and on account of the démodé nature of the libretto, Semiramide riconosciuta enjoyed only modest success in Italy, and after a few further performances in Bologna and Sinigallia in 1820, it disappeared completely from operatic repertoire. Yet in this opera Meyerbeer’s talent had ample possibilities to reveal itself on more than one occasion, as indeed listening to our CD will show, providing pages of clearly marked, personal profile, like for example Semiramide’s first-act aria, Il piacer, la gioia scenda, which interestingly enough Meyerbeer was to use again five years later in Il Crociato in Egitto.
Performed:
Semiramide – Clara Polito
Ircano, Scythian prince – Aldo Caputo
Scitalce, Indian prince – Eufemia Tufano
Mirteo, Egyptian prince – Federico Sacchi
Tamiri, princess – Stefania Grasso
Sibari, confidant – Roberto De Biasio
Slovak Choir of Bratislava
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia
Conductor – Rani Calderon
Tracklist:
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Semiramide
CD1:
01. Sinfonia
02. Atto I. Dall'Olimpo a noi scende (Sibari, Coro)
03. Marcia
04. Dall Sarmazia (Ircano)
05. Deh, sospendi la scelta (Sibari, Coro)
06. Sogno o son desto? (Scitalce)
07. Sperai su questa sponda (Scitalce)
08. Amico, in rivederti (Sibari)
09. Siam soli, or parlera (Semiramide)
10. Ella è la fiamma mia (Scitalce)
11. La scaltrezza che val (Sibari)
12. Che farò! (Ircano)
13. Udrai di strage orribile (Ircano)
14. Egli morrà (Sibari)
15. Più non si tardi (Semiramide)
16. Il piacer, la gioja scenda (Semiramide)
17. In lucido cristallo (Semiramide)
18. Qual sorpresa (Semiramide)
19. Di gioja, di pace (A tre)
CD2:
01. Mora l'Indo audace (Coro)
02. Ah, balena, minaccia sdegnato (Tutti)
03. Atto II. Mirteo non lusingarti (Tamiri)
04. D'un genio che m'accende (Tamiri)
05. Vieni Sibari - E dove? (Ircano, Sibari)
06. Barbaro non dolerti (Semiramide)
07. Crudele! Morir mi vedi (Semiramide)
08. Cedi il ferro (Mirteo)
09. Io prigionier! (Ircano)
10. No, non son vinto (Ircano)
11. Quanto ti deggio, amico (Mirteo)
12. Ah, più soffrir non voglio (Mirteo)
13. Nol voglio udir (Semiramide)
14. Io partir? Chi l'impone? (Ircano)
15. Parti; de' cenni miei (Semiramide)
16. Ove s'asconde? (Mirteo)
17. Mirteo, per quanto io tardi (Scitalce)
18. Non temere (Scitalce)
19. A forza io passerò (Ircano)
20. Taci! (E' tempo d'ardir) (Semiramide)
21. Se non nacqui (Semiramide)
22. Alma grande (Semiramide)
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Rani Calderon, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide (2007)
