| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Zaide, K. 344 / 336b
(1998)
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| Cover Front |
Album |
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| Composer |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
| Conductor |
Paul Goodwin |
| Orchestra / Ensemble I |
The Academy of Ancient Music |
| Length |
74:57 |
| Format |
CD |
| Genre |
Vocal; Opera |
| Index |
368 |
| Out of Print |
No |
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| Musicians |
| Soloist |
Dawson; Blochwitz; Bar; Lippert; Purves |
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| Credits |
| Producer |
Andrew Keener |
| Label |
Harmonia Mundi France |
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| Track List |
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| 01 |
Act I: No. 1: Coro "Brüder, lasst uns lustig sein" |
01:00 |
| 02 |
Act I: No. 2: Melologo "Unerforschliche Fügung" |
07:26 |
| 03 |
Act I: No. 3: Aria "Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben" |
05:54 |
| 04 |
Act I: No. 4: Aria "Rase, Schicksal, wüte immer" |
04:00 |
| 05 |
Act I: No. 5: Duetto "Meine Seele hüpft vor Freuden" |
02:10 |
| 06 |
Act I: No. 6: Aria "Herr und Freund, wie dank' ich dir" |
03:47 |
| 07 |
Act I: No. 7: Aria "Nur mutig, mein Herze, versuche dein Gluck" |
03:53 |
| 08 |
Act I: No. 8: Terzetto: "O selige Wonne" |
06:22 |
| 09 |
Act II: No. 9: Melologo "Zaide entflohen" |
03:44 |
| 10 |
Act II: No. 9: Aria "Der stolze Löw lässt sich zwar zähmen" |
05:04 |
| 11 |
Act II: No. 10: Aria "Wer hungrig bei der Tafel sitzt" |
03:07 |
| 12 |
Act II: No. 11: Aria "Ich bin so bös' als gut" |
05:41 |
| 13 |
Act II: No. 12: Aria "Trostlos schluchzet Philomele" |
06:45 |
| 14 |
Act II: No. 13: Aria "Tiger! wetze nur die Klauen" |
04:46 |
| 15 |
Act II: No. 14: Aria "Ihr Mächtigen seht ungerührt" |
04:21 |
| 16 |
Act II: No. 15: Quartetto: "Freundin, stille deine Tränen" |
06:57 |
| Personal |
| Purchase Date |
10/23/1999 |
| Value |
$16.50 |
| Store |
BMG |
| Condition |
100% |
| Librettist |
Johann Andreas Schachtner |
| Nationality |
Austrian |
| "Form" |
Singspiel in Two Acts |
| Language |
German |
| Period |
Classical |
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| Details |
| Studio |
Théâtre de Poissy, France |
| Catalog Number |
907205 |
| Live |
No |
| Recording Date |
6/15/1997 |
| Spars |
DDD |
| Reissue |
No |
| Sound |
Stereo |
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| Notes |
Zaide: Lynne Dawson
Gomatz: Hans Peter Blochwitz
Allazim: Olaf Bar
Sultan Soliman: Herbert Lippert
Osmin: Christopher Purves
Notes, illustrations, text and translation
Essay: Neal Zaslaw
Zaide is a European slave in the seraglio of Sultan Soliman, who is greatly infatutuated with her. Gomatz, a male slave (and like her a European) is sentenced to hard labor in the same compound. One day as Gomatz takes a nap, Zaide leaves a portrait of herself in his lap. When he awakes, he marvels at the portrait, and, when Zaide herself appears, the two fall in love. They convince Allazim, the favorite male slave of the sultan, to help them escape. He decides to flee with them. When Soliman discovers they are gone, he becomes furious and vows to catch them, then torture and kill them. While the search goes on, Osmin, a slave-handler, offers the sultan the services of a beautiful slave to distract him from his cares. The sultan refuses, and Osmin mocks the ruler for giving up on all women because of a single woman's betrayal.
The escaped slaves are caught and brought to the sultan's hall. There the sultan describes in intricate detail how he will take vengeance, and Zaide rages against this fate. Allazim attempts to move the sultan toward mercy. In the final number that survives today, the three slaves plead for pardon while the sultan adamantly denies it. The North German Singspiel on which Mozart and his librettist, Schachtner, based the opera, ends with a rather surprising twist: the three slaves discover that they are related - Gomatz and Zaide are the son and daughter of Allazim - and the sultan then pardons all three and promises them a safe passage to their homeland.
(Synopsis by Linda Tyler in disc notes) |
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