Dal timor, dallo spavento from the opera Motezuma, RV 723
by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Inga Kalna, soprano
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis, conductor
Dal timor, dal spavento
mesto il core e l’almo sento;
tormentato, disperato,
mi preparo a lagrimar.
Dal destin spietato e amaro
chi defender può il mio re?
Che farò? Non v’è riparo:
sorte rea che si può far?
My heart and spirit are heavy
with fear and sorrow;
full torment and despair,
the tears well up in my eyes.
Who can defend my king
from a cruel and bitter destiny?
What shall I do? There is no remedy:
iniquitous fate, what is to be done?
The incomplete manuscript of Vivaldi’s Motezuma, long considered a lost opera, was discovered in Berlin in 2002 with much of the first and third acts missing. Only 17 of the 28 numbers in an extant libretto appear in the manuscript. Vivaldi scholar and violinist, Alessandro Ciccolini, undertook the task of composing the missing recitatives, completing partial arias, and re-working arias chosen from other Vivaldi operas. This aria is an example of the latter. The aria “Il mio core a chi la diede” from La fida ninfa has been transformed (following documented methods of Vivaldi) by moving it from F major to G minor and adding elements appropriate to the new text.
CD available from Archiv:
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Video features photographs of a miniature painted by Alexander Kataurov, aka Alessandro:
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