Armida al campo d'Egitto

Armida al campo d'Egitto

"Armida al campo d'Egitto" is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Giovanni Palazzo. It was first performed during the Carnival season of 1718 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice. Vivaldi's version is one of the more than 50 operas whose themes derive in varying degrees from the story of Rinaldo and Armida in Torquato Tasso's epic poem "La Gerusalemme liberata" ("Jerusalem Delivered"). [Jellinek, George (1994) p. 354] Armida was revived for the Carnival season of 1738, with much of the music rewritten, and arias by Leonardo Leo added. Act II of the original version of the opera is now lost.

Roles

The names of the singers given in the libretto for the first performance [ [http://www.italianopera.org/italianOPERAge.php?f=compositori/V/c221099.htm Libretti a stampa: "Armida al campo d'Egitto"] , www.italianopera.org. Accessed 30 September 2008] are in parentheses.
*Armida, "a royal princess" - contralto (Antonia Margherita Merighi)
*Califfo, "King of Egypt" (Annibale Imperatori)
*Tisaferno (Francesco Braganti)
*Adrasto - soprano (Costanza Maccari)
*Emireno, "a general" (Francesco Natali)
*Erminia, "a royal princess" - soprano (Chiara Orlandi)
*Osmira, "Califfo's niece" - soprano (Rosa Venturini)

Recordings

The overture to "Armida al campo d'Egitto" can be heard on:
*"Vivaldi: Opera Overtures" (I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor). Label: Apex 2564605372.

Two arias from the work, "Invan la mia pietà tenta l'ingrato" and "Chi alla colpa fà tragitto", can be heard on:
*"Vivaldi: Arie Per Basso" (Lorenzo Regazzo, bass; Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor). Label: Naive 30415.

References

*Booth, John (1989) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcmEO1cd5VYC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=Armida+al+campo+d'Egitto&source=web&ots=vLixMfqXh5&sig=1Z1DiU6Il-Zjb2Yk9CGCTx6AaOU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA71,M1 "Vivaldi] , Omnibus Press, p. 71. ISBN 0711917272
*Jellinek, George (1994) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Obqd_w6peooC&pg=PA354&lpg=PA354&dq=Armida+al+campo+d'Egitto&source=web&ots=tjudz70Ola&sig=frWhp6IjaCKaHe-rUFu3PD7c6ko&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA354,M1 "History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon"] , Pro/Am Music Resources, p. 354. ISBN 0912483903


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