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Gioachino Rossini
SEMIRAMIDE
Tragic melodrama in two acts
Libretto by Gaetano Rossi
Premiered on 3 February 1823, La Fenice
SEMIRAMIDE, Queen of Babylon ................................................................... Albina Shagimuratova
ARSACE, Commander of the Army ...................................................... Daniela Barcellona
ASSUR, an Assyrian Prince.....……………….…………................................................ Mirco Palazzi
IDRENO, an Indian King ..................................................................................... Barry Banks
OROE, High Priest of the Magi ………..………………………......................................... Gianluca Buratto
AZEMA, an Assyrian Princess ………………………………………….…........................................... Susana Gaspar
MITRANE, Captain of the Royal Guards ……………………..…………………………………………..David Butt Philip
L’OMBRA DI NINO, Nino’s Ghost ....................................................................... James Platt
Satraps, Magi, Babylonians, Indians, Egyptians, Scythians,
Princesses, Citharists, Foreign Gentlewomen ................................................. Opera Rara Chorus
Madeleine Venner, chorus master
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sir Mark Elder, conductor
Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, August/September 2016
© 2018 Opera Rara
ACT I
00:00:00 [1] Sinfonia
00:12:27 [2] Oroe ‘Sì, gran Nume, t’intesi’
00:15:32 [3] Chorus ‘Belo si celebri, Belo s’onori’
00:19:02 [4] Idreno, Assur, Oroe, Chorus ‘Là dal Gange a te primiero’
00:25:18 [5] Chorus ‘Di plausi qual clamor giulivo echeggia’
00:27:32 [6] Oroe, Semiramide, Idreno, Assur ‘Di tanti regi e popoli che miri a te d’intorno’
00:31:33 [7] Assur, Semiramide, Idreno, Oroe, Chorus ‘Regina all’ara, e giura’
00:32:45 [8] Semiramide, Idreno, Oroe, Assur, Chorus ‘Ah! già il sacro foco è spento’
00:36:13 [9] Recitativo – Semiramide, Oroe, Idreno, Assur ‘O tu de’ Magi venerabil capo’
00:40:01 [10] Recitativo – Arsace ‘Eccomi alfine in Babilonia’
00:45:28 [11] Cavatina – Arsace ‘Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento’
00:51:18[12] Recitativo – Arsace, Oroe, Assur ‘Ministri, al gran Pontefice annunziate’
Duetto – Arsace, Assur
00:55:42 [13] ‘Bella imago degli Dei’
00:59:17 [14] ‘D’un tenero amore, costante, verace’
01:02:20 [15] ‘Io tremar? di te? m’avvio’
01:06:28 [16] Recitativo – Azema, Idreno ‘O me felice!’
Aria – Idreno
01:08:15 [17] ‘Ah dov’è, dov’è il cimento’
01:12:09 [18] ‘E se ancor libero – E il tuo bel core’
01:16:07 [19] Recitativo – Azema ‘Se non avesse e meritasse Arsace’
Coro di Donne e Cavatina - Semiramide
01:16:29 [20] ‘Serena i vaghi rai’
01:22:51 [21] ‘Dolce pensiero’
01:25:45 [22] Recitativo – Semiramide, Mitrane, Arsace ‘Ne viene ancor!’
01:30:12 [23] Duettino – Semiramide, Arsace ‘Serbami ognor sì fido il cor’
01:38:35 [24] Recitativo – Assur, Oroe ‘Oroe dal tempio nella reggia’
Finale Primo – Chorus, Semiramide, Arsace, Idreno, Oroe, Assur, Azema, L’ombra di Nino
01:41:28 [25] ‘Ergi omai la fronte altera’
01:46:56 [26] ‘I vostri voti omai’
01:48:02 [27] ‘Giuri ognuno a’ sommi dèi’
01:53:37 [28] ‘L’alto eroe, che dell’Assiria’
01:57:53 [29] ‘Qual mesto gemito’
02:04:17 [30] ‘D’un Semidio che adoro’
02:08:26 [31] ‘Ah! sconvolta nell’ordine eterno’
ACT II
02:11:41 [32] Recitativo – Mitrane, Semiramide, Assur ‘Alla reggia d’intorno cauto’
Duetto – Semiramide, Assur
02:16:30 [33] ‘Se la vita ancor t’è cara’
02:20:32 [34] ‘Quella ricordati notte di morte’
02:24:45 [35] ‘Ma implacabile di Nino’
02:26:26 [36] ‘La forza primiera ripiglia il mio core’
02:30:21 [37] Chorus, Oroe ‘In questo augusto soggiorno arcano’
02:36:04 [38] Recitativo – Arsace, Oroe ‘Ebben, compiasi omai’
Aria – Arsace, Chorus, Oroe
02:39:03 [39] ‘In si barbara sciagura’
02:42:02 [40] ‘Su, ti scuoti, rammenta chi sei’
02:44:30 [41] ‘Al gran cimento t’affretta ardito’
Recitativo – Mitrane, Azema, Idreno
02:47:55 [42] ‘Calmati, Principessa’
Aria – Idreno, Chorus
02:49:56 [43] ‘La speranza più soave’
02:51:59 [44] ‘Tu mia sposa, a questo seno’
Recitativo – Semiramide, Arsace
02:57:17 [45] ‘No, non ti lascio’
Duetto – Semiramide, Arsace
03:00:45 [46] ‘Ebbene, a te, ferisci’
03:06:02 [47] ‘Giorno d’orrore! E di contento’
03:10:34 [48] ‘Madre, addio’
03:11:31 [49] ‘Tu serena intanto il ciglio’
Scena, Recitativo e Aria – Assur, Chorus
03:14:51 [50] ‘Il dì già cade’
03:19:33 [51] ‘Ah! la sorte ci tradì’
03:22:09 [52] ‘Sì, vi sarà vendetta’
03:23:35 [53] ‘Deh! ti ferma, ti placa, perdona’
03:26:52 [54] ‘Ah! signore... Assur!’
03:28:30 [55] ‘Quei numi furenti’
03:31:14 [56] Recitativo – Mitrane ‘Oh nero eccesso’
Finale Secondo – Chorus, Arsace, Oroe, Assur, Semiramide, L’ombra di Nino
03:32:22 [57] ‘Un traditor. Con empio ardir’
03:37:54 [58] ‘Qual densa notte!’
03:41:03 [59] ‘Al mio pregar t’arrendi’
03:43:47 [60] ‘Dei! qual sospiro’
03:44:20 [61] ‘L’usato ardir... il mio valore dovè?’
03:46:41 [62] ‘Ninia, ferisce’
03:49:20 [63] ‘Vieni, Arsace, al trionfo’
