Mercadante Il proscritto (Britten Sinfonia & Carlo Rizzi) Opera Rara

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Saverio Mercadante
IL PROSCRITTO
Melodramma tragico in three acts
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Premiered on 4 January 1842, Teatro San Carlo, Naples Critical edition by Roger Parker and Ian Schofield

GIORGIO ARGYLL ........................................................................Ramón Vargas
ARTURO MURRAY ..................................................................... Iván Ayón-Rivas
ANNA RUTHVEN ........................................................................ Sally Matthews
GUGLIELMO RUTHVEN, her son ......................................... Goderdzi Janelidze
ODOARDO DOUGLAS, son from Anna’s second marriage . Elizabeth DeShong
MALVINA DOUGLAS, daughter from Anna’s second marriage .. Irene Roberts
CLARA, Malvina’s maid ............................................................. Susana Gaspar
OSVALDO, first among the castle guards ............................ Alessandro Fisher
AN OFFICER OF CROMWELL ................................................... Niall Anderson
Women and knights of the Murray and Ruthven clans,
exiles, castle guards, archers............................................ Opera Rara Chorus

Stephen Harris, chorus director
Britten Sinfonia (Thomas Gould, leader)
Carlo Rizzi, conductor
Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London, June 2022


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*TRACK LIST*

ACT I

N.1 Introduzione e Cavatina Arturo
00:00:03 [1] ‘D’amista le soavi catene’ (Chorus, Osvaldo)
00:05:10 [2] ‘Ah! dite, Arturo?’ (Guglielmo, Chorus)
00:06:35 [3] ‘Vieni... abbracciami’ (Guglielmo, Arturo)
00:07:31 [4] ‘Son del tuo volto immagine’ (Arturo)
00:09:52 [5] ‘Lord Arturo’ (Anna, Arturo, Guglielmo, Chorus)
00:10:50 [6] ‘Soffri o cor’ (Arturo, Anna, Chorus)

N. 2. Scena e Duetto Malvina ed Odoardo
00:13:36 [7] ‘Giungesti alfin!’ (Clara, Odoardo, Malvina)
00:18:02 [8] ‘Il mar che freme’ (Malvina, Odoardo)
00:22:28 [9] ‘Vieni all’altare’ (Women, Odoardo, Malvina)
00:23:26 [10] ‘Ah! vieni...’ (Odoardo, Malvina, Women)

N. 3 Scena e Romanza Giorgio, e Finale
00:27:16 [11] ‘A Clara dunque?’ (Osvaldo, Giorgio)
00:30:13 [12] ‘L’aura ch’io spiro’ (Giorgio)
00:32:46 [13] ‘Guglielmo qui!’ (Giorgio, Malvina, Anna, Odoardo, Osvaldo, Guglielmo, Arturo, Chorus)
00:36:57 [14] ‘Omai l’arcan terribile’ (Guglielmo, Osvaldo, Anna, Clara, Arturo, Odoardo, Malvina, Chorus)
00:43:06 [15] ‘Murray, non e l’origine’ (Guglielmo, Malvina, Anna, Arturo, Odoardo, Clara, Giorgio, Chorus)
00:46:24 [16] ‘Il cor ne avvampa’ (Guglielmo, Osvaldo, Malvina, Odoardo, Arturo, Clara, Anna, Chorus)

ACT II

N.4. Scena e Duetto Arturo e Giorgio
00:48:27 [17] ‘Col proscritto, dicesti?’ (Arturo, Osvaldo, Giorgio)
00:52:08 [18] ‘Si, lo giuro’ (Giorgio, Arturo)
00:53:06 [19] ‘Ah! perche rovente acciaro’ (Arturo, Giorgio)
00:56:26 [20] ‘Gia morte inevitabile’ (Arturo, Giorgio)
00:57:39 [21] ‘Surto appena il di bramato’ (Arturo, Giorgio)

N.5 Coro di Proscritti e Scena ed Aria Odoardo
01:00:11 [22] ‘Ha steso la notte’ (Chorus of Exiles, Odoardo)
01:04:14 [23] ‘Udiste quel suono?’ (Chorus of Exiles, Odoardo)
01:07:12 [24] ‘Ahi! del giorno sanguinoso’ (Odoardo, Chorus of Exiles)
01:11:54 [25] ‘Qual mai speme a te soccorre’ (Chorus of Exiles, Odoardo)
01:13:24 [26] ‘Colui che m’ha quest’anima’ (Odoardo, Chorus of Exiles)

N.6 Scena e Duetto Malvina e Giorgio, e Finale Secondo
01:16:40 [27] ‘Piu mia non e’ (Giorgio, Odoardo)
01:22:02 [28] ‘Deh! t’affretta Malvina’ (Odoardo, Giorgio, Malvina)
01:25:00 [29] ‘Stretto agli avanzi fragili’ (Giorgio, Malvina)
01:29:32 [30] ‘Son tua sposa’ (Malvina, Arturo, Giorgio)
01:31:20 [31] ‘Ed osi?’ (Arturo, Guglielmo, Odoardo, Malvina, an Officer, Anna, Clara, Chorus)
01:33:20 [32] ‘Tutta in lui piombo del fato’ (Malvina, Odoardo, Clara, Anna, Guglielmo, Osvaldo, an Officer, Chorus)
01:37:34 [33] ‘D’obbedirti’ (an Officer, Giorgio, Odoardo, Guglielmo, Malvina, Arturo)
01:39:20 [34] ‘Al rivale perdona la vita’ (an Officer, Odoardo, Guglielmo, Malvina)

ACT III

N.7 Scena e Duetto Malvina e Arturo, e Finale Terzo
01:41:18 [35] ‘Ah! ritorna Odoardo’ (Malvina, Giorgio, Odoardo, Arturo)
01:46:16 [36] ‘Vanne dunque’ (Arturo, Malvina)
01:52:16 [37] ‘Dovea cotanto affetto’ (Malvina, Arturo)
01:55:00 [38] ‘Che far degg’io’ (Arturo, Giorgio, Malvina)
01:58:24 [39] ‘Nel sepolcro’ (Malvina, Arturo, Giorgio)

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