Roberta Mameli: The Ghosts of Hamlet - Lost Arias from Italian Baroque Operas - COMPACT DISCS

Roberta Mameli: The Ghosts of Hamlet - Lost Arias from Italian Baroque Operas - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

The Ghosts of Hamlet - Lost Arias from Italian Baroque Operas

Artist:

Roberta Mameli

Label:

Arcana Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3760195735749

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-03-07

Number of Discs:

1

Ambleto is a fascinating curiosity in music history: a baroque libretto by Apostolo Zeno on the legend of Hamlet, not based on Shakespeare's tragedy but on it's primary source, the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Gramaticus. This swashbuckling drama has been first set to music by Francesco Gasparini (Venice 1705) - whose version served as the basis for a pasticcio (London 1712) with arias by various composers including Handel - then by Domenico Scarlatti (Rome 1715) and Giuseppe Carcani (Venice 1743). The surviving arias from these lost operas are brought back to life by the Concert de l'Hostel Dieu and the charismatic soprano Roberta Mameli, who lends her supple voice to the titular Danish Prince and to the strong women around him, his courageous lover Veremonda (Shakespeare's Ophelia) and his tormented mother Gerilda (Gertrude).

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