C. Graupner - Dido, Königin von Carthago (Marcon, 2024)

DIDO, KÖNIGIN VON CARTHAGO
Singspiel in 3 acts
Composer: Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Libretto: Heinrich Hinsch (1650-1712), based on Virgil's Aeneid.
First performance: Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg (1707)

Anna, Juno: Alicia Amo
Dido: Robin Johannsen
Menalippe: Chelsea Zurflüh
Aeneas: Emiliano Gonzalez Toro
Achates, Disalces: Raphael Höhn
Juba: José Antonio López
Elgabal, Hiarbas: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Andrea Marcon
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Live recording from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (24 February 2024)

Original 1707 libretto available at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.mu...

Picture: "La mort de Didon" by Joseph Stallaert (c. 1872).

This recording has been generously provided by the owner of the classicalmusicinconcert blog.

ACT I
00:00 Overture
04:09 Aria "Die wütende Rache" (Juno I, 1)
05:39 Aria "Auf Dido, auf! Dich ruft" (Juno I, 1)
09:26 Aria "Wann ins Kerckers banger Brust" (Dido I, 3)
12:54 Aria "Süßeste freiheit"(Anna I, 5)
15:09 Aria "Holde Nahrung reger hertzen" (Anna I, 5)
19:15 Aria "Nume alato" (Anna I, 5)
20:43 Sextuor "Piu crudo Tiranno" (Aenas, Menalippe, Juba, Hiarbas, Achates, Iras I, 6)
23:54 Aria "Pur vi baccio, pur vi miro" (Juba I, 9)
30:48 Aria "Costante il mio cuore" (Juba I, 9)
33:27 Aria "Spunta il Sole, e airai nascenti" (Hiarbas I, 10)
34:51 Aria "E la rosa in su'l matino" (Hiarbas I, 10)
36:33 Aria "Holdestes lispeln der spielenden fluten" (Menalippe I, 11)
41:41 Aria "Bück dich du Reich der Sternen" (Aeneas I, 12)
46:50 Aria "Agitato del tempeste" (Dido I, 13)
49:57 Duet "Nichts kan diese Brust bewegen" (Aeneas, Dido I, 13)

ACT II
52:10 Quartet "Wie lange soll ich noch der liebe gaukel spiel" - "Cessate d'agitarmi" (Hiarbas, Menalippe, Juba, Anna II, 1)
58:15 Aria "Sonn und licht, folgt nacht und schatten" (Hiarbas II, 3)
1:02:54 Aria "Nichts ist, was dieses mein Hertze bewegt (Aeneas II, 8)
1:06:30 Aria "Mein Herz entweicht" (Juba II, 10)
1:10:08 Aria "Auf schlaffrige Sinnen" (Anna II, 11)
1:13:51 Aria "Holde Augen, meine lust" (Hiarbas, II, 13)
1:17:22 Aria "Io non bramo altro ristoro" (Hiarbas, II, 15)
1:19:53 Aria "Wozu wollt ihr euch nun entschließen" (Menalippe II, 15)
1:22:43 Duet "Auff Auff! zur flucht: auff! auff!" (Achates, Aeneas II, 16)
1:23:52 Sinfonia
1:24:12 Chorus "Großer Mithra, Byrsens Schutz" (II, 18)
1:33:07 Aria "In fido Cupido" (Dido II, 19)

ACT III
1:37:01 Chorus "Dido lebe!" (III, 1)
1:39:58 Duet "Lebe, Dido, lebe wohl!" (Achates, Aeneas III, 2)
1:43:04 Aria "Suonate o timpani" (Dido III, 3)
1:46:39 Duet "Ha piu tema che Speranza" (Hiarbas, Menalippe III, 4)
1:49:03 Aria "Cosi libero, e fugace" - "Cosi rapido, e veloce" (Juba III, 5)
1:53:11 Aria "Alma tradita" (Dido III, 8)
1:57:25 Aria "Apprestatemi, o Furie, de l'Erebo" (Dido III, 9)
1:59:47 Duet "Krantze mit Rosen!... Krohne mit Freuden!" (Anna, Juba III, 10)
2:02:53 Aria "Komm dann, komm gewünschter Todt!" (Dido III, 12)
2:10:49 Chorus "Friede, friede! Lust und Ruh!" (III, 17)