Attila (opera)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_(opera)
Verdi's Attila - Opera in 10 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC1FiN8lnks
Oper Köln
1.http://www.operkoeln.com/programm/57394/
2.http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/musiktheater20122013/K-attila.html
3.http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/region/kultur/Begeisterter-Applaus-nach-konzertantem-Attila-article1080914.html
Attila Synopsis
Verdi's 3 Act Opera
http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/opera-synopses-a-thru-k/qt/Attila-Synopsis.htm
OPERA "ATTILA" Verdi (COMPLETE 1:54hrs) CHERYL
STUDER and SAMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16rITL6x3Kg
Performers: Cheryl Studer, Samuel Ramey, Giorgio Zancanaro,
Kaludi Kaludov, Ernesto Gavazzi, Mario Luperi.
Conductor Ricardo Muti Teatro Alla Scala
Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto Act 1 + 2 Temistocle
Solera after reject
libretto Francesco Maria Piave. Later Francesco Maria Piave
wrote the 3rd Act.
Première Teatro La Fenice Venice March 17. 1846
Synopsis:
Time: Mid-5th Century Place: Aquileia,
the Adriatic lagoons, and near Rome
Prologue
Scene 1: The ruined city of Aquileia
Attila and his victorious horde are surprised to see a group
of women spared as prisoners of war. Their leader, Odabella, asks why the Huns'
women remain at home (Allor che i forti corrono / "While your warriors
rush to their swords like lions"). Attila, impressed by her courage,
offers a boon and she asks for her sword to avenge the death of her father at
Attila's own hand
(Da te questo or m'è concesso / "O sublime, divine
justice by thee is this now granted"). The Roman envoy Ezio asks for an
audience and proposes a division of the empire: Avrai tu l'universo, Resti
l'Italia a me / "You may have the universe, but let Italy remain
mine". Attila denounces him as a traitor to his country.
Scene 2: A swamp, the future site of Venice
A boat bearing Foresto and other survivors arrives; he
thinks of the captive Odabella (Ella in poter del
barbaro / "She is in the barbarian's power!") but then rouses himself
and the others to begin building a new
city (Cara patria già madre e reina / "Dear
homeland, at once mother and queen of powerful, generous sons").
Act 1
Scene 1: A wood near Attila's camp
Odabela laments her father and Foresto (Oh! Nel fuggente
nuvolo / "O father, is your image not imprinted on the fleeting
clouds?...") believing the latter to be dead. When he appears, she is put
on the defensive, denying any infidelity and reminding him of the biblical
Judith. The couple is reunited: Oh, t'inebria nell'amplesso / "O vast joy
without measure")
Scene 2: Attila's tent
Attila awakes and tells Uldino of a dream in which an old
man stopped him at the gates of Rome
and warned him to turn back (Mentre gonfiarsi l'anima parea / "As my soul
seemed to swell"). In the daylight, his courage returns and he orders a
march (Oltre quel limite, t'attendo, o spettro / "Beyond that boundary I
await you, O ghost!"). However, when a procession of maidens clad in white
approaches, singing a Christian hymn, he recognizes the Roman bishop Leo as the
old man of his dream, and collapses in terror.
Act 2
Ezio's camp
Ezio has been recalled, after a peace has been concluded. He
contrasts Rome's
past glory with the child emperor Valentine (Dagl'immortali vertici /
"From the splendid immortal peaks of former glory"). Recognizing the
incognito Foresto among the bearers of an invitation to a banquet with Attila,
he agrees to join forces (E' gettata la mia sorte / "My lot is cast, I am
prepared for any warfare" ). At the banquet, Foresto's plot to have Uldino
poison Attila is foiled by Odabella, jealous of her own revenge. A grateful
(and unsuspecting) Attila declares she shall be his wife, and places the
unmasked Foresto in her custody.
Act 3
The forest
Uldino informs Foresto about the plans for the wedding of
Odabella and Attila; Foresto laments Odabella's apparent betrayal (Che non
avrebbe il misero / "What would that wretched man not have offered for
Odabella). Ezio arrives with a plan to ambush the Huns; when Odabella comes
Foresto accuses her of treachery, but she pleads for his trust. Attila finds
the three and recognizes their betrayal. As Roman soldiers approach, Odabella
stabs him with the sword he had given her. The three conspirators cry that the
people have been avenged.