Utwory na płycie:

• Overture
• Ah mostro, ah furia
• Occhi neri
• E tal mi lascia?
• Pugneran con noi le stelle
• Nasce il sol, e l'aura vola
• Reina, in sì bel dì
• Agitata da fiato incostante
• Esilena?
• Dell'Iberia al soglio invitto
• Signor, questo reciso orribil teschio
• Ti lascio alla pena
• Egregio Duce, il braccio tuo guerriero
• In mano al mio sposo
• Evanco, armato in campo ti fui nemico
• Eroica fortezza
• Frau' romori di Marte ... Con voci care in petto
• Ma lo stesso pensiero
• Stragi, morti, sangue ed armi
• Coronatemi, o sdegni
• O morte, o vendetta
• Mentre di mie vittorie
• Sommi Dei, se pur v'offesi
• Rodrigo, all'armi
• Esilena, cotesto pur è un segno fedel
• Vanne in campo
• Cor mio, non gir con fasto
• Per dar pregio all'amor mio

Rodrigo
Dramma per musica in three Acts, HWV 5
Libretto after Francesco Silvani
First performance at Teatro di Via del Cocomero, Florence, 30 October 1707

For a long time, a large portion of Handel’s early opera Rodrigo was thought to have been lost. It was back in 1707 in Rome that George Frideric Handel wrote Rodrigo, but it was not until 1974 that the printed libretto turned up again, and nine years later the third act was found in the Earl of Shaftesbury’s Handel collection. On August 29, 1984, finally, the work was revived during the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and in 2019 it’s on the programme at the Göttingen International Handel Festival. The opera narrates a freely adapted version of the end to the regency of the Last Visigoth King Roderich. In the libretto by Francesco Silvani, however, the reason behind it is less the lust for power on the part of his opponents than the thirst for vengeance of his spurned mistress.

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Live recording: 17 May 2019, Deutsches Theater Göttingen (Germany)