FULL LA DIRINDINA (Scarlatti) Naples 2023 Raffaella Ambrosino, Carmine Monaco, Enrico Vicinanza
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: La Dirindina
- Composer: Scarlatti Domenico
- Libretto: Girolamo Gigli Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Chiesa Barocca di Donna regina Museo Diocesano, Napoli, Italy
- Recorded: December 21, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Raffaella Ambrosino, Carmine Monaco, Enrico Vicinanza
- Conductor: Enzo Amato
- Orchestra: Orchestra da Camera di Napoli
- Stage Director: Riccardo Canessa
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Raffaella Ambrosino
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
La Dirindina is a comic intermezzo with a libretto by the comedian Girolamo Gigli 1 and composed to be performed during the interval of Domenico Scarlatti ‘s opera Amleto . The intermezzo , which was withdrawn after being banned by the Vatican censorship shortly before its premiere at the 1715 carnival at the Teatro Capranica in Rome, consists of eight recitatives and eight arias or trios.
What motivated the normally temperate Scarlatti to set Gigli’s text to music may be somewhat baffling, but it is less so given that his musical contribution is minimal, as if he were simply meant to keep the action going. Even in the arias, Scarlatti’s musical fabric never strays from his sole, superficial support of the vocal line.
The satirical Tuscan playwright Girolamo Gigli was the librettist of this work, whose printing was prohibited because it was scandalous for the time. Giovanni Battista Martini found a copy and contributed substantially to the music of the version performed today. The work was rediscovered and edited more recently by Francesco Degrada , 2 and a first recording was conducted by Riccardo Muti in Naples in 1968.
Aspiring opera singer Dirindina is being tutored by the elderly Don Carissimo, who seems more interested in his students’ physical attributes than their artistic ones. A young and loving Liscione, with whom Dirindina is in love, arrives to thwart Don Carissimo’s plans. The young woman’s tutor is upset by his arrival, but even more so by the fact that he brings an invitation for Dirindina to perform at an opera house in Milan. Don Carissimo insists that his student is not ready; but Liscione tells her that her success does not depend solely on her singing ability, and proceeds to teach her to use her feminine charms to advance in the music business. She teaches him her lessons in a scene from Dido and Aeneas. In the first she reprimands her second for having abandoned her and for having been unfaithful to her. Don Carissimo believes that the scene is real and that Dirindina is about to commit suicide. When he sees that it was just an act, he is relieved to the point of blessing the young lovers, congratulating them and wishing them all the best for her happiness.
Quoted from Wikipedia