Johann Adolph Hasse (1699 – 1783)
Son qual misera colomba
from: Cleofide (Opera seria)
Sopran solo, Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Violinen (2), Viola, Basso continuo
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Details
- For
- Sopran solo, Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Violinen (2), Viola, Basso continuo
- Product Type
- Score
- Author / Composer
- Johann Adolph Hasse
- Editor
- Zenon Mojzysz
- Product number
- 1714286
Description
Scoring: Solo S, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc
The opera Cleofide by Johann Adolf Hasse was part of an ambitious plan to revive the art of Italian opera at the Saxon court. The dramatic plot – about Alexander the Great’s conquests in India – is brought to life by Hasse’s brilliant setting.
The aria “Son qual misera colomba, che se piomba in lei l’artigilio” tells of despair and the agony of love. Cleofide compares herself to a dove caught in the hunter’s trap, ensnared in a web of difficult...