Alcina (2:43:09) -- Giulio Cesare: Priva son d'ogni conforto. Tu la mia stella sei. Va tacito e nascosto. V'adoro, pupille. si spietata, il tuo rigore. Venere bella. Se pietà di me non senti. Piangerò la sorte mia. Aure, deh, per pietà. Sperai né m'ingannai. Da tempeste il legno infranto (48:11).
Note
The 1st work an opera in three acts; 2nd work opera excerpts.
Libretto to the 1st work by the composer, adapted from the opera L'isola d'Alcina by Riccardo Broschi (Rome, 1728); libretto to the 2nd work by Nicola Haym.
Language (note)
Sung in Italian.
Author
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, composer.
Title
Alcina ; Giulio Cesare highlights / Handel.
Publisher
New York : Decca, [1992]
Copyright date
℗1962
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Series
Grand opera
Grand opera.
Performer
In the 1st work: Joan Sutherland, Graziella Sciutti, Mirella Freni, sopranos ; Teresa Berganza, mezzo soprano ; Monica Sinclair, contralto ; Luigi Alva, tenor ; Ezio Flagello, bass ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Richard Bonynge, conductor. In the 2nd work: Joan Sutherland, soprano ; Margreta Elkins, Marilyn Horne, mezzo sopranos ; Monica Sinclair, contralto ; Richard Conrad, tenor ; New Symphony Orchestra of London ; Richard Bonynge, conductor.
Event
1st work Recorded Walthamstow 1962 March-April.
2nd work recorded 1963 July Decca studio no. 3, West Hampstead.