Telemaco
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| Title: | Telemaco |
Title page of the libretto, Rome 1718 |
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| Shape: | Dramma per musica in three acts |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | A. Scarlatti |
| Libretto : | Carlo Sigismondo Capece |
| Premiere: | Carnival season 1718 |
| Place of premiere: | Rome , Teatro Capranica |
| Playing time: | approx. 3 ½ hours |
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Telemaco is an opera seria (original name: "Dramma per musica") in three acts by Carlo Sigismondo Capece , set to music by Alessandro Scarlatti . The opera is the composer's 109th stage work and was completed on January 29, 1718. It was premiered in the Roman Teatro Capranica during the 1718 Carnival season.
action
first act
Neptune, ruler of the seas and protector of Troy, furiously demands the death of Telemaco, whose father Odysseus had destroyed Troy. Minerva, who Telemaco has chosen to marry Antiope, the daughter Idomeneus, protests Telemaco's innocence and asks Neptune for mercy.
Like his father, Telemaco is shipwrecked and stranded on the island of Ogygia, the island of the nymph Calipso, the enemy Idomeneus. Although Calipso was promised Adrasto to the Prince of Corinth, she fell in love with Telemaco. Telemaco falls in love with Erifile, the slave of Calipso, at first sight. This enrags Sicoreo, Calipso's brother, because he is in love with Erifile and gave her to his sister as a slave. Mentore finds his friend Telemaco on the island and urges them to leave in order to find Antiope. Not wanting to sacrifice Telemaco, Calipso desperates how to appease Neptune. It invokes your father's ghost. The latter orders that the sacrificial altar be prepared. The gods themselves will then send the sacrifice.
Second act
Telemaco, who had previously hidden his name, confesses his identity to Erifile. This also urges him to leave the island. Sicoreo urges Telemaco to finally reveal himself, while Mentore urges them to leave. Silvina and Tersite prepare the altar. In the temple everyone is waiting for the sacrifice sent by the gods. Telemaco appears, reveals itself and wants to voluntarily sacrifice itself in order to appease Neptune. Calipso interrupts the sacrifice as the gods never punish innocents and she wants to prevent the gods from committing a crime. It turns out that Neptune has already been appeased by Telemaco's willingness to make sacrifices. Sicioreo incites Adrasto to kill Telemaco. Determined to do so, Adrasto Calipso threatens to assassinate Telemaco. Calipso, who knows nothing of Erifile's love for Telemaco, sends Erifile as a messenger of her love for Telemaco.
Third act
Adrasto injures himself while trying to kill Telemaco and tells Calipso of Telemaco's love for Erifile. Since they cannot have those they love, they want to hurt the hearts of the loved ones and kill their loved ones; so Calipso wants to kill Erifile and Sicoreo Telemaco. But neither of them have the heart and instead take her captive. The Mentores troops liberate Telemaco. Erifile reveals himself as Antiope. The gods have their will and Calipso complies with their fate and becomes Adrasto's bride. Minerva wishes everyone happiness and joy.
literature
- Thomas Hochradner: Alessandro Scarlatti. Telemaco (1717/18). In: Günter Brosche (Ed.): Musicians' manuscripts from Heinrich Schütz to Wolfgang Rihm. Reclam, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-010501-3 , pp. 22-23 (with illustration of the score, sheet 106r).
Web links
- Telemaco : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto (Italian), Rome 1718. Digitized version of the Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
- Telemaco (Alessandro Scarlatti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Online music magazine