Serse - Xerxes HWV 40 -Opera in three acts- Opera in 3 acts 韓德爾 賽瑟王 歌劇 騎熊士版
亨德爾於 1737 年 12 月 26 日開始創作《瑟瑟》，並於 1738 年 2 月 6 日完成第三幕。同年 4 月 15 日在 Haymarket 的國王劇院首演。之後共演出了四場，直到 1924 年才再次聽到這部作品"
作曲家: Handel, George Frideric
改編者: Köhs, Andreas
校訂者: Best, Terence
樂器: voice with instruments 聲樂與器樂
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
原文簡介:
Handel started writing “ Serse ” on 26 December 1737 and completed the third act on 6 February 1738. The première took place on 15 April of the same year at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket. Four performances followed, after which the work was not heard again until 1924.
The opera focuses on the Persian king Serse , who, rather than serving as a military commander or statesman, appears at the centre of a highly complex love story. Handel provided an admixture of buffo elements (the antics of the servant Elviro , the stupidity of the soldier Ariodate ) to the standard ingredients of opera seria , such as the broadly declaimed woes of Serse , Romilda , Arsamene , and Amastre .
This interweaving of seemingly incompatible stylistic resources arose in Naples and can already be found in the 17th century librettos that served as the principal sources of Handel’s Serse .
Though unsuccessful at the time, today “ Serse ” is prized precisely for its comic undertones and is regularly seen on stage.
Our new Urtext vocal score is based on the volume edited by Terence Best for the “Halle Handel Edition” (series II/volume 39).
Straightforward performance-oriented vocal score based on the Urtext of the “Halle Handel Edition”
Original Italian text with singing German translation