Almira, Queen of Castile HWV 1 -Opera in three acts- Opera in 3 acts 韓德爾 歌劇 騎熊士版

《阿爾米拉》是亨德爾的第一部歌劇，1705 年在漢堡 Gänsemarkt 劇院首演時廣受好評。導演是萊因哈特-凱澤爾（Reinhard Keiser），值得一提的是，他本人已經將弗裡德里希-克利斯蒂安-費斯特金（Friedrich Christian Feustking）的劇本譜成了曲。費爾南多一角由約翰-馬特森（Johann Mattheson）演唱。亨德爾使用的譯文保留了幾段義大利詠歎調的原文，使德語和義大利語交融在一起，令人賞心悅目"

作曲家: Handel, George Frideric
改編者: Köhs, Andreas
校訂者: Schröder, Dorothea
樂器: voice with instruments 聲樂與器樂
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
難度: 3
原文簡介:
“Almira”, Handel’s first opera, was well received when premiered in 1705 at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The director was Reinhard Keiser, who, remarkably, had himself already set Friedrich Christian Feustking’s text to music. The role of Fernando was sung by Johann Mattheson. The translation used by Handel leaves several Italian arias in their original language, resulting in a delightful mixture of German and Italian.

The opera which, after sundry entangled romances, ends in the wedding of three couples, is characterised by exuberant scenes: the procession at Almira’s crowning ceremony, a duel, a prison scene and a masked-ball involving the three continents Europe, Africa and Asia.

The vocal score to “Almira” by George Frideric Handel brings about a small sensation: Whilst conducting a reenactment of this work in 1732, Georg Philipp Telemann removed the Aria no. 28 “Ingrato, spietato” from his conducting score. Since then this aria has been deemed lost. Due to necessity only the edited vocal text devoid of any music was presented in the 1994 volume of the “Halle Handel Edition”.

Thanks to a recently discovered contemporary manuscript copy from the beginning of the 18th century which was found in the music library of the Mariengymnasium in Jever, this aria has now been made available to performers for the first time in this new vocal score edition. Previous to this the corresponding pages could only be seen as a facsimile in an article of the “Göttinger Händel-Beiträge”.

Now the aria can be performed again. Furthermore, with the help of this new source, missing measures in the basso continuo which had initially been completed by the editor of the “Halle Handel Edition” volume, could be reconstructed from the basso continuo part of the Bellante aria “Ich brenne zwar” (no. 71).

- Urtext edition based on the “Halle Handel Edition”

- Original German and Italian text with a German translation of the Italian arias

- Comprehensive foreword (Ger/Eng)

- Clear, straightforward piano reduction