La música vocal de Handel es una fuente inagotable de creaciones de extrema belleza. Ahora, del oratorio Hercules (HWV 60), estrenado en enero de 1745, les dejo un aria de la sexta escena del segundo acto. Canta la esposa de Hércules a través de la voz de Joyce DiDonato.
“Cease, ruler of the day, to rise” (Dejanira)
Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!
Did he not swear, when first he wooed my love,
the sun should cease to dawn, the silver moon
be blotted from her orb, ere he proved false?
Cease, ruler of the day, to rise,
Nor, Cynthia, gild the evening skies!
To your bright beams he made appeal
With endless night his falsehood seal!
George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
FURORE – Opera Arias
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Les Talents Lyriques
Christophe Rousset, conductor
Virgin Classics, 2008 [75’08’’]
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