L. Vinci - Opera «Artaserse» Aria 'Vo solcando un mar crudel' | Franco Fagioli

Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730)

Opera Artaserse
Dramma per musica in tre atti.

Libretto: Pietro Metastasio

First performed at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome during the carnival season on 4 February 1730

Personaggi:
Arbace: Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Friend of Artaserse, in love with Mandane

ATTO PRIMO
Vo solcando un mar crudel (Arbace)

Vo solcando un mar crudele
senza vele, e senza sarte:
freme l'onda; il Ciel se imbruna,
cresce il vento, e manca l'arte;
e il voler della fortuna son constretto a seguitar.

Infelice in questo stato
son da tutti abbandonato:
meco e sola e l'innocenza,
che mi porta a naufragar.

I follow ploughing through a cruel sea
without sail, and without cables:
the waves tremble; the sky becomes dark,
the wind increases, and the art[?] lacks;
and the will of the fortune I am constrained to pursue.

Unhappy in this condition
I am abandoned by all:
I am alone, and the innocence
makes me to sink.


Performers:
Violins I: Markus Hoffmann, Stephan Sänger, Frauke Pöhl, Hedwig van der Linde
Violins II: Chiharu Abe, Antje Engel, Wolfgang von Kessinger, Horst-Peter Steffen, Bettina von Dombois
Violas: Antje Sabinski, Aino Hildebrandt
Cellos: Jan Kunkel, Davit Melkonyan
Double bass: Jean-Michel Forest
Oboes: Josep Domenech, Annette Spehr
Bassoon: Lorenzo Alpert
Horns: Ulrich Hübner, Reneé Allen
Trumpets: Hannes Rux, Almut Rux
Timpani: Stefan Gawlick
Harpsichords: Gianluca Capuano, Jonathan Brandani
Lute: Simon Martyn-Ellis

Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano
Concerto Köln Orchestra
Diego Fasolis, conductor

[on period instruments]

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Artwork: Portrait of Franco Fagioli in Opéra national de Lorraine Artaserse