Dame Joan Sutherland – “Tornami a vagheggiar” Aria of Alcina I Act Scene XV – “Alcina” (1735) – Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel (1685 – 1759).
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\nUnique Opera Records & Melodram – \u2117 1981
\nRecorded in K\u00f6ln on May 15, 1959. Radio broadcasting.
\nSutherland sang the role of Alcina for the first time in Italian at very short notice. Wunderlich and Monti both came to rehearsal expecting to sing the role of Oronte and Wunderlich sight-read the part of Ruggero and sang it in performance a few days later (See \u00abA Prima Donna’s Progress\u00bb by Joan Sutherland p.77).
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\nCappella Coloniensis
\nK\u00f6lner Rundfunkchor
\nConductor M.\u00b0 Ferdinand Leitner
\nAlcina – Dame Joan Sutherland
\nRuggiero – Fritz Wunderlich
\nBradamante – Norma Procter
\nOronte – Nicola Monti
\nMorgana – Janette van Dijck
\nMelisso – Thomas Hemsley.
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\nIn the original libretto of Alcina the aria “Tornami a vagheggiar” is sung by Morgana. “Several other sources attribute ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ to Alcina, instead of Morgana, for example the fundamental 1868 Leipzig edition
\nhttp:\/\/www.dlib.indiana.edu\/variations\/scores\/abu7619\/large\/index.html act I scene 15 p. 51
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\nhttp:\/\/www.librettidopera.it\/zpdf\/alcina.pdf p 13\/35 (“Alcina sola” = alone).
\nThe aria-database says about Alcina and Tornami a vagheggiar: different versions of this opera give this aria to different characters. While originally this aria was sung by Morgana, other versions give it to Alcina.
\nhttp:\/\/www.aria-database.com\/search.php?individualAria=1053
\nAccording to “Il dizionario dell’opera” (ed. Baldini & Castoldi) ‘from 1736 several changes [to Alcina] became necessary. The aria ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ (I, 15), written originally for Morgana, was given to Alcina, perhaps for rivalry between singers’ (a partire dal 1736 si resero necessarie diverse modifiche: l\u2019aria \u201cTornami a vagheggiar\u201d (I,15), scritta originariamente per Morgana, fu affidata ad Alcina, forse in seguito a rivalità tra le interpreti).
\nhttp:\/\/www.operamanager.it\/cgi-bin\/process.cgi?azione=ricerca&tipo=OP&id=147
\nAll these evidences are “redundant”, if one knows a little the history of music and the extreme freedom once enjoyed by singers, that often moved arias and scenes from an opera to another, or asked their preferred composers to replace an aria or scene they didn’t like.”<\/p>\n
TORNAMI A VAGHEGGIAR<\/p>\n
Tornami a vagheggiar,
\nte solo vuol amar
\nquest’anima fedel,
\ncaro mio bene.
\nGi\u00e0 ti donai il mio cor;
\nfido sar\u00e0 il mio amor;
\nmai ti sar\u00f2 crudel,
\ncara mia speme.<\/p>\n
(Return to me to languish,
\nOnly you it wants to love
\nthis faithful heart,
\nMy dear, my good one, my dear!<\/p>\n
Already I gave you my heart :
\nI trust you will be my love;
\nbut you will be too cruel,
\nmy dear hope.<\/p>\n
Translation by Robert Glaubitz).<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6E88eI2ignM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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