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Thu, Apr 4, 2024
6:00 pm

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6:00-6:30 PM: Panel discussion- Ottomans, Venetians, and the Politics of Cavalli’s Veremonda

Wendy Heller

Department of Music

Molly Greene

Department of History

Lawrence Zazzo

Countertenor; Newcastle University

Gabrielle Hooper

G2, Department of Music

 

6:30-7:30 PM: Concert-An Evening with Veremonda

Featuring Lawrence Zazzo, Countertenor

With Emma George, Sara Hagenbuch, Jacqueline Horner-Kwaitek, Emma Simmons, Brendan T. Sperling

Early Music Princeton Singers

Jacqueline Horner-Kwaitek, Director

Early Music Princeton Chamber Players

Nancy Wilson, Director

The Cavalli Players

Joyce Chen, Continuo

Michael Pratt, Conductor

Produced by Wendy Heller, with excerpts from her forthcoming critical edition (Bärenreiter, 2024).

Francesco Cavalli Veremonda l’Amazzone di Aragona (1652)

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Principal Characters in tonight’s performance
(in order of appearance)

ZELEMINA, Moorish queen who resided in Calpe, a city in the Strait of Gibraltar, fortress of the kingdom of Granada.
ZAIDA, nurse of Zelemina
DELIO, general to the King of Aragon, in mutual love with Zelemina and then infatuated with Veremonda.
RE, the king of Aragon, Don Alfonso the Astrologer, more interested in his studies than in war
REGINA, QUEEN VEREMONDA, wife of King Alfonso, known as the Amazon of Aragon, who pretends to be in love with Delio to take the besieged fort by surprise.
VENDETTA, Vengeance, a demon who incites Delio to take revenge, pretending to be in love, to avenge an old injury that King Alfonso’s father did to Delio’s family, having
attempted to rape Violante, the mother of Delio and wife of Roldano.
AMORE, love, invoked by Vengeance.
FURORE, fury, invoked by Vengeance.
ROLDANO, aged father of Delio, succeeded by his son as commander of the Aragonese army.

Arranged by Wendy Heller, from her forthcoming critical edition of the score (Bärenreiter, 2024), libretto edited by Valeria Conti.


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Principal Characters in tonight’s performance
(in order of appearance)

ZELEMINA, Moorish queen who resided in Calpe, a city in the Strait of Gibraltar, fortress of the kingdom of Granada.
ZAIDA, nurse of Zelemina
DELIO, general to the King of Aragon, in mutual love with Zelemina and then infatuated with Veremonda.
RE, the king of Aragon, Don Alfonso the Astrologer, more interested in his studies than in war
REGINA, QUEEN VEREMONDA, wife of King Alfonso, known as the Amazon of Aragon, who pretends to be in love with Delio to take the besieged fort by surprise.
VENDETTA, Vengeance, a demon who incites Delio to take revenge, pretending to be in love, to avenge an old injury that King Alfonso’s father did to Delio’s family, having
attempted to rape Violante, the mother of Delio and wife of Roldano.
AMORE, love, invoked by Vengeance.
FURORE, fury, invoked by Vengeance.
ROLDANO, aged father of Delio, succeeded by his son as commander of the Aragonese army.

Arranged by Wendy Heller, from her forthcoming critical edition of the score (Bärenreiter, 2024), libretto edited by Valeria Conti.


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