Handel: Partenope "Chio parta?" Scholl
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G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
Recitativo: Rosmira, ove ti guida
Aria: Chio parta?
from Act III, Sc. 4 of Partenope, HWV 27
Comic opera in three acts
Libretto by: Silvio Stampiglia
Premiere: King's Theatre, London, 24 February 1730
Original Cast in 1730:
Partenope: Anna Maria Strada del Pò, soprano
Rosmira: Antonia Maria Merighi, contralto
Arsace: Antonio Maria Bernacchi, alto castrato
Armindo: Francesca Bertolli, mezzo-soprano
Emilio: Annibale Pio Fabri, tenor
Ormonte: Johann Gottfried Riemschneider, basso
In this video:
Andreas Scholl, countertenor (as Arsace)
Trine Bastrup Møller, mezzo soprano (as Rosmira)
Concerto Copenhagen,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Det Kongelige Teater (Gamle Scene), Copenhagen
11 October 2008
The cast:
Partenope: Inger Dam-Jensen
Arsace: Andreas Scholl
Armindo: Christophe Dumaux
Rosmira: Tuva Semmingsen
Emilio: Bo Kristian Jensen
Ormonte: Palle Knudsen
Concerto Copenhagen,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen
The recitativo in this performance is the abridged version as it appears in the Chrysander edition.
Handel wrote Partenope in 1730, a time in his life when he was free to choose a wider range of librettos.
"It was Handel's first comic opera, which broke away from the Opera Seria tradition. It was rejected by the Royal Academy of Music, because of its frivolous nature, with relatively few extended arias and more recitative." - Wikipedia.
"Arsace begs Rosmira to stop her revenge, but she wishes to go all the way and tells him to leave. He obeys, but reveals his genuine and now clear love for her."
Francesco Negrin
Recitativo
ARSACE
Rosmira, ove ti guida
sdegno tiranno e cieco?
Dove, Rosmira, e dove sei?
ROSMIRA (si presenta)
Son teco.
ARSACE
Di tormentarmi ancor sazia sei tu?
ROSMIRA
Vi resta ancor un non so che di più.
ARSACE
Dovresti al fin placarti...
già ti chiedo perdono.
ROSMIRA (sdegnata)
Arsace, parti.
Aria
ARSACE
Ch'io parta? sì, crudele,
parto, ma senza cor;
che nel mio sen fedele,
nel luogo ov'era il cor,
è il mio dolor.
Translation (by Marc D.):
Recitativo
ARSACES
Rosmira, where did your blind
and tyrannical disdain lead you?
Where, Rosmira? Where are you?
ROSMIRA (appearing)
Here I am.
ARSACES
With tormenting me again are you satiated?
ROSMIRA
A little something is still missing.
ARSACES
You should eventually be satisfied,
for I am already imploring your pardon.
ROSMIRA
Arsaces, leave.
Aria
ARSACES
You want me to leave? Yes, cruel one,
I'll leave, but without my heart;
for inside my faithful breast,
where my heart used to be,
there's now only my pain.