{"id":4235,"date":"2017-02-17T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T16:45:46","slug":"dame-joan-sutherland-ma-quando-tornerai-let-the-bright-seraphim-bis-encore-after-a-performance-of-alcina-1735-live-in-venezia-1960-georg-friedrich-handel-1685-1759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/dame-joan-sutherland-ma-quando-tornerai-let-the-bright-seraphim-bis-encore-after-a-performance-of-alcina-1735-live-in-venezia-1960-georg-friedrich-handel-1685-1759\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Joan Sutherland &#8211; &#8220;Ma quando tornerai&#8221; (&#8220;Let the Bright Seraphim&#8221;) &#8211; Bis (&#8220;Encore&#8221;) after a performance of &#8220;Alcina&#8221; (1735) &#8211; LIVE in Venezia &#8211; 1960 &#8211; Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel (1685 &#8211; 1759)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Joan Sutherland &#8211; &#8220;Ma quando tornerai&#8221; (&#8220;Let the Bright Seraphim&#8221;) &#8211; Bis (&#8220;Encore&#8221;) after a performance of &#8220;Alcina&#8221; (1735) &#8211; Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel (1685 &#8211; 1759) &#8211; LIVE in Venezia &#8211; 1960.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;After a stupendous reintroduction of Handel to the Italian audience, Sutherland encored here, from the 1960 live recording at La Fenice in Venice, &#8216;Ma quando tornerai,&#8217; from &#8216;Alcina&#8217;, set to Handel&#8217;s &#8216;Let the Bright Seraphim-&#8216; Following this performance, she became known, deservedly, as La Stupenda.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;This recording captures the encore to Alcina that Sutherland sang at the end of her first Italian performance in February, 1960. It is sung to the words of &#8216;Ma quando tornerai,&#8217; one of Alcina&#8217;s arias.<br \/>\nImagine singing this piece directly after singing the title role! No wonder they first called her La Stupenda after this performance.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nOrchestra &#8211; Teatro la Fenice di Venezia<br \/>\nChorus &#8211; Teatro la Fenice di Venezia<br \/>\nConductor M.\u00b0 Nicola Rescigno.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nCast:<br \/>\nAlcina &#8211; Dame Joan Sutherland<br \/>\nRuggiero &#8211; Monica Sinclair<br \/>\nBradamante &#8211; Oralia Dom\u00ednguez<br \/>\nOronte &#8211; Nicola Monti<br \/>\nMorgana &#8211; Cecilia Fusco<br \/>\nMelisso &#8211; Plinio Clabassi.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nLIVE Recording of the first performance of &#8220;Alcina&#8221; sung by Dame Joan Sutherland at Teatro La Fenice &#8211; Venezia (I) &#8211; February, 1960<br \/>\nCompact Disc Bella Voce &#8211; Unknown year of releasing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MA QUANDO TORNERAI&#8221; (&#8220;LET THE BRIGHT SERAFIM&#8221; sung with the words of &#8220;Ma quando tornerai&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Ma quando tornerai<br \/>\ndi lacci avvinto il pi\u00e8,<br \/>\nattendi pur da me<br \/>\nrigore e crudelt\u00e0.<br \/>\nE pur, perch\u00e9 t&#8217;amai,<br \/>\nho ancor di te piet\u00e0.<br \/>\nAncor placar mi puoi,<br \/>\nmio ben, cor mio; non vuoi?<br \/>\nMi lascia, infido, e va&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joan Sutherland - 1960 Let the bright seraphim (in Italian)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-I7mJ8bFtIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Joan Sutherland &#8211; &#8220;Ma quando tornerai&#8221; (&#8220;Let the Bright Seraphim&#8221;) &#8211; Bis (&#8220;Encore&#8221;) after a performance of &#8220;Alcina&#8221; (1735) &#8211; Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel (1685 &#8211; 1759) &#8211; LIVE in Venezia &#8211; 1960. &#8211; &#8220;After a stupendous reintroduction of Handel to the Italian audience, Sutherland encored here, from the 1960 live recording at La Fenice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}