Opera title: | Giulio Cesare |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Giulio Cesare Synopsis |
Libretto: | Giulio Cesare Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Sesto |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1.15 |
Previous scene: | Nel tuo seno amico sasso |
Next scene: | Tu la mia stella sei |
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY
Il Giardino Armonico
Conducted by Giovanni Antonini.
Pfingstfestspiele Salzburg, broadcast on 27.05.2012 .
G.-F. Händel ( (1685-1759)
"Giulio Cesare in Egitto" HWV 17. Aria of Sesto , Atto I Scena VIII
Dramma per musica , libretto by Francesco Haym after Giacomo Francesco Bussani "Giulio Cesare in Egitto ( music by Antonio Sartorio Venezia 1677).
First performed in London , at 20 February 1724 in King's Theatre, Haymarket. Händel revived it (with changes) in 1725, 1730, and 1732; it was also performed in Paris, Hamburg and Brunswick.
First cast:
Giulio Cesare - Francesco Bernardi Senesino
Cleopatra - Francesca Cuzzoni
Tolomeo - Gaetano Berenstadt
Cornelia - Anastasia Robinson
Sesto - Margherita Durastanti
Achilla - Giuseppe Maria Boschi
Curio - John Lagarde
Nireno - Giuseppe Bigonzi
Cara speme, questo core
Tu cominci a lusingar.
Par che il ciel presti favore
I miei torti a vendicar.
Aria Sesto
Cara speme, questo core
tu cominci a lusingar.
Par che il ciel presti favore
i miei torti a vendicar.
(partono Cornelia, Sesto e Nireno).
Sesto Air
Dear hope, this core
you begin to flatter.
For heaven to please
my wrongs to revenge.
(leave Cornelia, Sesto and Nireno).
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