FRANCESCO CAVALLI Lamento di Enea Dormi cara Didone PDF SCORE

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Buy the PDF score here: • https://www.earlymusicscores.com/shop... • Composed by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676). From La Didone (1643), Atto III, scena 6. • Topi Lehtipuu, tenor • Le Concert d'Astrée • In act 3, scene 6, the gods have just informed Enea that he must leave Carthage. He knows that he is obliged to obey them, although he is reluctant to abandon his beloved Didone. Busenello provides him with a text in which Enea expresses his bitter conflict between his love for Didone and the realization that the god’s command is law. Cavalli set the first four strophes, in which Enea gives voice to his torment, in expressive recitative style. The most abrupt change, however, occurs at the fifth strophe, where recitative yields to aria. Cavalli set this strophe and the next as a kind of Lullaby in lyrical aria style; clearly responding to a change in the mood of Busenello’s text, he himself supplies, through music, an emotional climax to the turmoil expressed in the previous recitative strophes. Melodic restraint and balance rather fittingly convey Enea’s feelings, his tender sorrow, his hesitancy, his fear of disturbing Didone’s repose and of her awakening, perhaps to thwart his resolution. The more sustained build of musical tension and affect of the next strophe heightens the opposition between desire and destiny.—Ellen Rosand, Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre, 1991. • Translation: • Sleep, beloved Dido! • May kind heaven keep you from dreaming of my departure. • My feet move to the ship and my soul to you. • My yearning for you will never be quenched. • Slip under the pillow of my treasure my sighs! • And tell her that I am dying. • The breeze is starting, heaven calls me, o Dido: farewell, • I leave and sail to another land!

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