- L'Arianna
"L'Arianna" (SV 291) was the second
opera written byClaudio Monteverdi , and one of the most influential and famous specimens of earlybaroque opera. It was first performed inMantua in1608 . Its subject matter was the ancient Greek legend ofAriadne andTheseus .The opera has been lost except for a single famous piece, Lamento d'Arianna "(Ariadne's Complaint)," also known by its first words, "Lasciatemi morire" ("Let me die"). It is a solo
aria , illustrating Ariadne's desperation after being forsaken by Theseus on the island of Naxos. It was famous already in its own time as a prime example of the then-revolutionary new musical style of operaticmonody , the so-calledseconda prattica . It was discussed as such by the contemporary music theoristGiovanni Battista Doni in 1640. [H. H. Eggebrecht, "Musik im Abendland", Munich: Piper, 1991, p.339.]The "lamento" was preserved because Monteverdi later re-published it as a standalone piece in 1623. He also wrote two re-arrangements: one as a five-voice madrigal, published as part of his "Sixth Book of Madrigals" in 1614, and one with a new religious text in Latin, "Pianto della Madonna", published in his collection "Selva morale e spirituale" in 1641. ["Dtv-Atlas zur Musik", München: DTV, 1971.]
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*Free scores of in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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