La danza (metastasio)

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Work data
Title: La danza
Title page of the libretto from 1755 (music by Christoph Willibald Gluck)

Title page of the libretto from 1755
(music by Christoph Willibald Gluck)

Shape: Cantata drammatica
Original language: Italian
Music: First setting by Giuseppe Bonno
Libretto : Pietro Metastasio
Premiere: April 1744
Place of premiere: Vienna
people
  • Nice , nymph
  • Tirsi , jealous shepherd boy

La danza (German: "The Dance") is a libretto for a cantata drammatica for two voices by Pietro Metastasio . It was performed for the first time in April 1744 in the setting by Giuseppe Bonno by a lady-in-waiting and a nobleman ("da una Dama, e da un Cavaliere") in the Hofburg in Vienna .

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Title page of the libretto, music by GCF for the apartment, Hall 1786

The two characters of the play are the amorous nymph Nice and the jealous shepherd boy Tirsi. In order for their love to be kept secret, Nice has to go to the ball without him. Tirsi says goodbye to her in an exaggerated way: “You gods know / Centuries fulfill my complaints / Only moments my jubilation!” (“Oh Dio! / Son secoli i miei pianti; / Le mie felicità son semper istanti”). Nice assures him of her love and loyalty, but still Tirsi cannot suppress his jealousy: “Can a fearful heart suppress its pounding, / When false longing storms always shower his gem? / May give such hearts, mine is not strong enough. "(" Ma chi potrebbe / Veder tranquillo al suo tesoro intorno / Semper alcun altro insidiator novello? / Ah, se v'é, chi può farlo, io non son quello. " ) Nice means that she is not really as beautiful as he sees her. But he could be proud if others recognized their value. However, Tirsi fears that she might reciprocate the admiration of the others, even if she does not notice it herself immediately. When she doesn't know how to calm him down, he asks her forgiveness and asks her to leave, because he now wants to trust her. Still, he fails to let go of her hand. Once again he wants to hear from her that she loves him. The work ends with a mutual love duet: "For you alone / Gods gave her - the sighs for me." ("Per te solo / sola / Io son nat ... as sospirar")

history

Metastasio himself saw this work only as a small casual work, as is evident from a letter to Farinelli . It has no real dramatic plot, but only consists of a short conversation in which Metastasio - as in some earlier works - works out the differences between words and feelings. The generic term “cantata” is somewhat misleading here. Until the 17th century it was still used for all types of vocal music. Only in the course of time did today's meaning develop in the sense of a small singing performance without stage design or costumes, which was written for the concert hall and not for the theater. However, in the 17th century there was another widely used type, very popular particularly in the Neapolitan School and in France, which was close to a small opera. These works have a clearly distinctive scenic character. Most of the works that Metastasios called “cantata”, as well as La danza, belong to this type .

Settings

The following composers set this libretto to music:

year composer premiere Performance location Remarks
1744 Giuseppe Bonno April 1744, Hofburg Vienna "Cantata drammatica"
1755 Christoph Willibald Gluck May 5, 1755, Castle Theater Laxenburg near Vienna GluckWV 1.18, “componimento drammatico pastorale” for the eighth birthday of Archduke Leopold as an introduction to a ballet;
sung by Caterina Gabrielli (Nice) and Joseph Frieberth (Tirsi);
also performed on May 30, 1756
1756 Nicola Conforto 1756 “Componimento drammatico” La Danza. Nice e Tirsi ;
does the aria contain Che chiedi? Che brami? by Farinelli
1766 Luciano Xavier Santos 1766, Palazzo Queluz Lisbon
1775 Johann Adolph Hasse 1775 Dresden "Cantata"
before 1786 GCF to the apartment before 1786
1788 Johann Friedrich Reichardt 1788 "Cantata a due voci"
1792 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel 1792 Berlin composed for Dresden
unknown Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli unknown "Cantata"
unknown Scondito duca Capece unknown "Cantata a 2 voci"
unknown Cellos unknown
unknown Jug unknown "Cantata à 2 voci con pfte"

Recordings and performances in recent times

Web links

Commons : La danza  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Digital copies

  1. ↑ a b Libretto (Italian) of the cantata by Giuseppe Bonno as digitized version at the Munich Digitization Center . In: Opere del signor abate Pietro Metastasio , Volume 1, Herissant, Paris 1780, pp. 385 ff.
  2. ^ Libretto (Italian) of the opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Vienna 1755. Digitized in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  3. ^ Libretto (Italian / German) of the GCF cantata zur Wohnung, Halle 1786 as digitized version at the Munich Digitization Center .
  4. ↑ Score of the cantata by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli as digitized version in the Internet Culturale portal .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Don Neville:  Metastasio [Trapassi], Pietro (Antonio Domenico Bonaventura). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ^ German translation of the GCF cantata von Wohnung.
  3. ^ Jacques Joly: Les fêtes théâtrales de Métastase à la cour de Vienne, 1731–1767. Pu Blaise Pascal, 1978, ISBN 978-2845160194 , p. 253 ff. ( Online at Google Books)
  4. ↑ List of stage works by Giuseppe Bonno based on the MGG at Operone, accessed on March 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g La danza in the Gluck Complete Edition , accessed on March 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ La danza (Christoph Willibald Gluck) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on March 24, 2015.
  7. ^ Niccolo Conforto. In: Dizionario Biografico - Treccani , accessed March 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ Sandro Cappelletto: La voce perduta: vita di Farinelli, evirato cantore , EDT srl, 1995, ISBN 9788870632231 , p. 189 ( online at Google Books ).
  9. ↑ La danza (Luciano Xavier Santos) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on March 24, 2015.
  10. ^ Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens : Hasse and the Graun brothers as symphonic orchestras , ISBN 3-487-40927-5 , p. 519 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ↑ La danza (GCF to the apartment) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on March 24, 2015.
  12. ^ Library record of the piano reduction of the cantata by Johann Friedrich Reichardt at WorldCat , accessed on March 24, 2015.
  13. ^ Memoir of Friedrich Heinrich Himmel. In: The Harmonicon No. XIX, July 1824 ( online at Google Books ).
  14. ^ Marchese di Villarosa: Memorie dei Compositori di Musica del Regno di Napoli , 1840, p. 205 ( online at Google Books ).
  15. ↑ Handbook of Musical Literature , Volume 2, Whistling, Leipzig 1829, p. 1232 ( online at Google Books ).
  16. ↑ Lionel Salter: Review of the CD Gluck La Corona & La Danza on Gramophone , 3/1988, accessed on August 16, 2018.
  17. ^ Johann Adolph Hasse: Il Ciclope / La Danza. CD information from Allmusic , accessed on March 27, 2015.