Cavalli - il Giasone "Delizie Contente" Michael Chance

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Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Il Giasone
"Delizie Contente"


Note: The score is in F minor. Chance is singing 2 full steps lower than the score.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Giasone (Jason) is an opera in three acts and a prologue with music by Francesco Cavalli and a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. It was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano during the Venetian carnival season of 1649. Giasone was "the single most popular opera of the 17th century".The plot is loosely based on the story of Jason and the golden fleece, but the opera contains many comic elements too."

from Wikpedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc...

"Cavalli was the most influential composer in the rising genre of public opera in mid-17th century Venice. Unlike Monteverdi's early operas, scored for the extravagant court orchestra of Mantua, Cavalli's operas make use of a small orchestra of strings and
basso continuo to meet the limitations of public opera houses.

Cavalli introduced melodious arias into his music and popular types into his libretti. His operas have a remarkably strong sense of dramatic effect as well as a great musical facility, and a grotesque humour which was characteristic of Italian grand opera down to the death of Alessandro Scarlatti. Cavalli's operas provide the only example of a continuous musical development of a single composer in a single genre from the early to the late 17th century in Venice — only a few operas by others (e.g. Monteverdi and Antonio Cesti) survive. The development is
particularly interesting to scholars because opera was still quite a new medium when Cavalli began working, and had matured into a popular public spectacle by the end of his career.

Cavalli wrote thirty-three operas, twenty-seven of which are still extant, being preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Library of St Mark) at Venice. Copies of some of the operas also exist in
other locations. In addition, nine other operas have been attributed to him, though the music is lost and attribution impossible to prove."

for further reading:
http://www.hoasm.org/VIIF/Cavalli.html

Full libretto and further analysis on:
http://www.librettidopera.it/giasone/...



Italian Text:

Delizie contente, che l'alma beate fermate.
Su questo mio core deh più,
deh più non stillate le gioie d'amore.
Delizie mie care, fermatevi qui:
non so più bramare, mi basta così.

In grembo agli amori fra dolci catene morir,
morir mi conviene, dolcezza omicida a morte,
a morte mi guida, mi guida in braccio al mio bene.


English Translation (Bertram Kottmann):

Joyful delights, making my soul blissful, come to an end.
On my very heart
do not trickle the joys of love any more.
Dear pleasures, come to an end now:
I cannot desire any longer, it is enough.
In Cupid's lap, in sweet chains I would like to expire.
Mortal sweetness, guide me to death
in the arms of my beloved.