Ormisda |
‘Se non sa qual vento il guida’. Sung by Fabri (Arsace) in Rosmira, Perugia, July 1725 (Roberts, p. 177). Also sung by Fabri (Santippo) in anon., Marco Attilio Regolo, Bologna 1724, II.12, and by Giuseppe Ristorini (Unulfo) in Passotti (?), L’amor costante, Florence, Teatro Cocomero, carnival 1725. |
‘Se non pensi al dovere di figlio’. Provenance still unidentified. |
‘Sì, sì, lasciatemi’. Sung by Giovanni Paita in Orlandini, Lucio Papirio, Bologna 1718; sung as ‘Amor, deh lasciami’ by Luigi Antinori in anon., Elpidia, London 1725 (music concordant), and as ‘Sì, sì, lasciatemi’ by Fabri (Arsace) in anon., Rosmira, Perugia, July 1725 (Roberts, p. 177). Also sung as ‘Sì, lusingatemi’ (music concordant) by Fabri (Alceste) in Leo et al., Arianna e Teseo, Naples 1721 and 1722.33 |
‘Ti sento amor di padre’. Still unidentified: text in Zeno, Alessandro Severo, but music not concordant with Lotti 1717, Mancini 1718, nor Orlandini 1723.‘Speranze del mio cor’ (replacement for ‘Ti sento amor di padre’): sung by Fabri in Giacomelli, Zidiana, Milan 1728.‘Un lampo di speranza’ (another replacement for ‘Ti sento amor di padre’, see C. Timms, ‘Handelian and Other Librettos in Birmingham Central Library’, Music & Letters, vol. 62, no. 2, 1984, pp. 141–167 at 148): probably concordant with ‘Un lampo è la speranza’, sung by Senesino in Handel, Admeto 1727 (I.7) (Strohm, ‘Ormisda’, p. 374). |
Venceslao |
I.3 ‘Se tu vuoi dar leggi al mondo’. Zeno's original text ‘Se vuoi dar legge al mondo’ is in G. M. Capelli, Venceslao, Parma 1724; but the added syllable ‘tu’ in 1731 (making the line an ottonario instead of settenario) suggests that this is a parody of a different aria. |
I.9 ‘Ecco l’alba d’un giorno sereno’. Also sung by Fabri (Raimondo) in anon., L’ingratitudine castigata, Florence 1726 (I. 10). |
II.3 ‘Nel seren di quel sembiante’. Not musically concordant with Capelli, Venceslao, Parma 1724. Probably sung by Antonio Barbieri in Act III of Venceslao, Venice 1722 (Roberts, p. 177), with music by Antonio Pollarolo (Strohm, ‘Ormisda’, p. 380). Also sung by Ristorini (Unulfo) in Passotti (?), L’amor costante, Florence 1725.34 |
III.7 ‘Balenar con giusta legge’. Probably sung by Antonio Barbieri in Act V of Venceslao, Venice 1722 (Roberts, p. 177), with music by Capelli (Strohm, ‘Ormisda’, p. 380). |