• • • L'incantesimo is a short in one act by Italian composer. Jilly Cooper Books here. Its was written by playwright who had previously collaborated with the composer on his most famous opera,.

Benelli finished the text in 1933, and Montemezzi started work on the score, but the composer's unpleasant relationship with government made Italy inconducive to creative work. Montemezzi resumed work on L'incantesimo during the summer of 1943 in, his home during a 10-year sojourn in the.

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Upon completion of the score, he offered it to the, professing admiration for their orchestra. Contents • • • • Performance History [ ] L'incantesimo received its broadcast premiere on October 9, 1943, in. The composer conducted the. The opera's stage premiere took place on August 9, 1952, in,, only a few months after Montemezzi's death. The following year, L'incantesimo was performed for Italian radio, and broadcast in 1954.

On November 13, 2007, a New York group dedicated to reviving neglected scores, performed L'incantesimo in a concert performance at in. A production (believed to be the first fully staged production of the work in America) was mounted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Hall of Sculpture at the by the February 12, 13, and 14 of 2010, conducted by Bernard McDonald and directed by Jonathan Eaton.

The cast included Daniel Teadt as Folco, Anna Singer as Giselda, Ric Furman as Rinaldo and Craig Priebe as Salomone. Despite the opera's late date of composition, its musical style is firmly rooted in the late-romantic tradition, combining Italian lyricism with the orchestral techniques of and. Roles [ ] Role Voice type Premiere cast 9 October 1943 (Conductor: Italo Montemezzi) Folco, a nobleman Alexander Sved Giselda, his wife Rinaldo, her former suitor Mario Berini Salomone, a necromancer A servant Synopsis [ ] The action takes place in Folco's wintry castle during the Middle Ages.

Folco, a boastful and possessive man, has sent for Rinaldo, but, noting the falling snow, worries that his old friend will not come. Rinaldo had loved Folco's wife Giselda, and had longed to marry her. Giselda questions Folco as to why he has summoned her old love, whom she has not seen since their wedding.

Free Download Directsound Driver For Windows Xp. Folco tells her that Rinaldo is bringing with him a magician, whom Folco hopes will be able to tell him the meaning of a disturbing encounter he'd experienced while hunting earlier that day. Rinaldo finally appears, accompanied by the mysterious necromancer Salomone. Folco welcomes them warmly, and in his aria 'Allora ascolta!' , explains how, while pursuing a wolf in the snowy forest, he'd raised his eyes to behold a white hind whose face was that of Giselda. Bewildered, he had stabbed the creature, whose sad eyes seemed to beg for mercy, and then had fled, horrified, into the forest. Salomone explains that if Folco's love for Giselda can survive, he must return to the forest, find the wounded hind, and carry it lovingly back to the castle, as if it were Giselda herself.

Folco assures the magician that he can certainly accomplish this. As soon as Folco leaves, Rinaldo passionately informs Giselda that he has never forgotten his love for her, but rather has, in the loneliness of his dwelling gazed upon her, and held her as if she were all his.

Giselda scolds Rinaldo, but he assures her that love can accomplish anything, and that he thus has no doubt that she will be his. But Giselda scoffs at his ardent assurances. Love can do anything? Can it change the wintry garden that they see through the window to spring? If love can do that, she tells him, then she'll believe him. But Salomone interjects, 'If you love, you shall see the spring.' Folco now returns.