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The libretto indicates [[Sebastiano Emiliani|Sebastiano Emiliani]] as the singer of the role of Aminta.
The libretto indicates [[Sebastiano Emiliani|Sebastiano Emiliani]] as the singer of the role of Aminta.


It appears on the following album:
The ''sojetto'' was immensely popular; the first composer who set Metastasio's words to music was Caldara's in 1733; Vivaldi followed shortly after, in 1734. His is undoubtedly the most popular, especially since the {{lang|it|Siam navi all'onde algenti}} has famously and spectacularly been sung by Cecilia Bartoli.
 
Bernasconi's ''L'Olimpiade'' was written and performed in 1764. It is easy to hear that the times have changed since Vivaldi while some things always remain the same.
 
Bernasconi's {{lang|it|Siam navi all'onde algenti}} appears on the following album:


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Has its own; and from the fear of others
Has its own; and from the fear of others
It is not freed. The follies are various
It is not freed. The follies are various
But everyone is mad; and at his pleasure, he turns to hate or love, greed or wrath.
But everyone is mad; and at their leisure,  
they turn to hate or love, greed or wrath.


We are ships in the surging waves
We are ships on the icy waves
Left to abandonment;
Left to abandonment;
a raging storm
a raging storm
are our affections;
are our affections;
every pleasure is reef;
every pleasure is a reef;
all life is the sea.
all life is the sea.


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Reason watches; but then
Reason watches; but then
Yet by the wave-like pride
Yet by the wave-like pride
Lets itself be carried away.
Lets itself be carried away.</poem>
</poem>
<div class="footnotes"><poem>Translation: FR<ref name="FR"/></poem></div>
<div class="footnotes"><poem>Translation: FR<ref name="FR"/></poem></div>
}}
}}
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<div class="footnotes"><poem>source: Libretto from the Cimarosa version, London 1788
<div class="footnotes"><poem>source: Libretto from the Cimarosa version, London 1788
B-Part missing
B-Part missing
<nowiki>*</nowiki>) both, the poetic English and the German version have abbreviated the recitativo. <ref name="Libretto English"/></poem></div>
<nowiki>*</nowiki>) Both, the poetic English and the German version have  
abbreviated the recitativo. <ref name="Libretto English"/></poem></div>
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<div class="footnotes"><poem><nowiki>*</nowiki>) Original: "Wiederwärtigkeiten"
<div class="footnotes"><poem><nowiki>*</nowiki>) Original: "Wiederwärtigkeiten"
<nowiki>**</nowiki>) Original: "reisen"
<nowiki>**</nowiki>) Original: "reisen"
<nowiki>***</nowiki>) Original: "starcke"}}''Source: Libretto, Munich, 1764''<ref name="Libretto German"/>
<nowiki>***</nowiki>) Original: "starcke"''Source: Libretto, Munich, 1764''<ref name="Libretto German"/>
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</poem></div>
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:Instrumentation voices, chorus, orchestra
:Instrumentation voices, chorus, orchestra
:{{cite web
:{{cite web
  |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/La_decollazione_di_S._Giovanni_Batista_(Bononcini%2C_Antonio_Maria)
  |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade_(Bernasconi%2C_Andrea)
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021211010/https://imslp.org/wiki/La_decollazione_di_S._Giovanni_Batista_%28Bononcini%2C_Antonio_Maria%29
  |archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-224829/https://imslp.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade_(Bernasconi,_Andrea)
  |title=La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista (Bononcini, Antonio Maria)
  |title=L'Olimpiade
  |last=
  |last=Bernasconi
  |first=
  |first=Andrea
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* Libretto in German
* Libretto in German
L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte  
:L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte  
:per comandi di s.a.s.E. Massimiliano Giuseppe Duca dell'Alta, e Bassa Baviera ...  
:per comandi di s.a.s.E. Massimiliano Giuseppe Duca dell'Alta, e Bassa Baviera ...  
:nel carnevale dell'anno MDCCLXIV  
:nel carnevale dell'anno MDCCLXIV  
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:welches aus höchstem Befehl Sr. Churfürstl. Durchleucht in Bayern &c. &c.  
:welches aus höchstem Befehl Sr. Churfürstl. Durchleucht in Bayern &c. &c.  
:auf den Churfürstlichen neuen Theater in der Carnevals-Zeit Anno 1764. ist aufgeführet worden
:auf den Churfürstlichen neuen Theater in der Carnevals-Zeit Anno 1764. ist aufgeführet worden
:{{cite book
:{{cite book
  |last=
  |last=Bernasconi
  |first=
  |first=Andrea
  |author-link=
  |author-link=
  |date=1709
  |date=1709
  |title=Bernasconi, Andrea: L'Olimpiade
  |title=L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte
  |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10382075?page=62,63
  |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10382075?page=62,63
 
  |archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-225157/https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10382075?page=60,61
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022011808/https://books.google.de/books?id=UlOWkdwireMC&dq=Giovanni+Domenico+Filippeschi&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts [altered from P. A. D. B. Metastasio], as performed at the King's Theatre, etc. Ital. & Eng
(Cimarosa)
https://www.google.de/books/edition/L_Olimpiade_A_serious_opera_in_two_acts/9xHIBLPrsMwC?hl=de&gbpv=1


* Libretto in English
:L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts [altered from P. A. D. B. Metastasio],
: as performed at the King's Theatre, etc. Ital. & Eng
:(Cimarosa)
:{{cite book
|last=Bernasconi
|first=Andrea
|author-link=
|date=1788
|title=L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts
|url=https://www.google.de/books/edition/L_Olimpiade_A_serious_opera_in_two_acts/9xHIBLPrsMwC?hl=de&gbpv=0
|archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-225600/https://www.google.de/books/edition/L_Olimpiade_A_serious_opera_in_two_acts/9xHIBLPrsMwC?hl=de&gbpv=0
|location=British Library
|publisher=Monaco : Stevenson
|page= <!-- or pages= -->
|isbn=
|access-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
|archive-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
}}<ref name="Libretto English"/>


==References==
==References==
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  </ref>
<ref name="IMSLP">{{cite web
<ref name="IMSLP">{{cite web
  |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/La_decollazione_di_S._Giovanni_Batista_(Bononcini%2C_Antonio_Maria)
  |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade_(Bernasconi%2C_Andrea)
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021211010/https://imslp.org/wiki/La_decollazione_di_S._Giovanni_Batista_%28Bononcini%2C_Antonio_Maria%29
  |archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-224829/https://imslp.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade_(Bernasconi,_Andrea)
  |title=La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista (Bononcini, Antonio Maria)
  |title=L'Olimpiade
  |last=
  |last=Bernasconi
  |first=
  |first=Andrea
  |date=
  |date=
  |website=IMSLP
  |website=IMSLP
  |publisher=
  |publisher=
  |access-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
  |access-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
  |archive-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
  |archive-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
|quote=
}}</ref>
<ref name="Progetto Metastasio">
{{cite web
|url=https://www.progettometastasio.it/public/testo/testo/codice/OLIMPIAD%7CR%7C000
|archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-224829/https://imslp.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade_(Bernasconi,_Andrea)
|title=Olimpiade, Torino, Reale, 1757
|last=Metastasio
|first=Pietro
|date=
|website=Progetto Metastasio
|publisher=
|access-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
|archive-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
  |quote=
  |quote=
}}
}}
  </ref>
  </ref>
<ref name="Libretto">
<ref name="Libretto German">
{{cite book
{{cite book
  |last=
  |last=Bernasconi
  |first=
  |first=Andrea
  |author-link=
  |author-link=
  |date=1709
  |date=1709
  |title=Die Enthaubtung Deß H. Johannes Deß Tauffers
  |title=L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte
  |url=https://books.google.de/books?id=UlOWkdwireMC&dq=Giovanni+Domenico+Filippeschi&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10382075?page=62,63
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022011808/https://books.google.de/books?id=UlOWkdwireMC&dq=Giovanni+Domenico+Filippeschi&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  |archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-225157/https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10382075?page=60,61
  |location=
  |location=
  |publisher=Bey den Cosmerovischen Erben
  |publisher=Monaco : Thuille, 1764
|page= <!-- or pages= -->
|isbn=
|access-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
|archive-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
}}
</ref>
<ref name="Libretto English">
{{cite book
|last=Bernasconi
|first=Andrea
|author-link=
|date=1788
|title=L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts
|url=https://www.google.de/books/edition/L_Olimpiade_A_serious_opera_in_two_acts/9xHIBLPrsMwC?hl=de&gbpv=0
|archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-225600/https://www.google.de/books/edition/L_Olimpiade_A_serious_opera_in_two_acts/9xHIBLPrsMwC?hl=de&gbpv=0
|location=British Library
|publisher=Monaco : Stevenson
  |page= <!-- or pages= -->
  |page= <!-- or pages= -->
  |isbn=
  |isbn=
  |access-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
  |access-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
  |archive-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
  |archive-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
}}
}}
</ref>
</ref>
<ref name="FR">English translation: Birikein & FR, 2021</ref>
<ref name="FR">English translation: FR, with thanks to RI, 2024</ref>
}}
}}
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*{{cite web
*{{cite web
  |url=https://iucat.iu.edu/iusb/1445052
  |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Olimpiade
  |archive-url=https://archive.ph/Pxzyw
  |archive-url=http://archive.today/2024.11.02-232837/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade
  |title=La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista
  |title=L'Olimpiade
  |last=
  |last=
  |first=
  |first=
  |date=
  |date=
  |website=Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
  |website=Wikipedia
  |publisher=
  |publisher=
  |access-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
  |access-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
  |archive-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
  |archive-date={{date|2024-11-01|MDY}}
|quote=}}
*{{cite web
|url=https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_O/Orsini_Gaetano.xml
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021213537/https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_O/Orsini_Gaetano.xml
|title=Orsini, Gaetano Felice
|last=Glüxam
|first=Dagmar
|date=
|website=Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online
|publisher=
|access-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
|archive-date={{date|2021-10-21|MDY}}
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  |quote=}}


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Latest revision as of 08:06, 4 November 2024

L'Olimpiade
by Andrea Bernasconi
Andrea Bernasconi - Olimpiade - German title page of the libretto - München 1764
Andrea Bernasconi - Olimpiade - German title page of the libretto - München 1764[1]
EnglishThe Olimpiad
GenreOpera
LibrettoPietro Metastasio
Premiere
DateJanuary 20, 1764
LocationMünchen, Hoftheater[2]

"Siam navi all'onde algenti" is an aria from the opera L'Olimpiade (Engl.: The Olympiad) by Andrea Bernasconi. The author of the libretto is Pietro Metastasio.

The libretto indicates Sebastiano Emiliani as the singer of the role of Aminta.

The sojetto was immensely popular; the first composer who set Metastasio's words to music was Caldara's in 1733; Vivaldi followed shortly after, in 1734. His is undoubtedly the most popular, especially since the Siam navi all'onde algenti has famously and spectacularly been sung by Cecilia Bartoli.

Bernasconi's L'Olimpiade was written and performed in 1764. It is easy to hear that the times have changed since Vivaldi while some things always remain the same.

Bernasconi's Siam navi all'onde algenti appears on the following album:

Year Album Ensemble
2023 Forgotten Arias (Album) Le Concert de la Loge

Libretto

Siam navi all'onde algenti
(We are ships on swelling waves)

from  L'Olimpiade
Andrea Bernasconi (music),  Pietro Metastasio (words)

(Aminta (Amyntas))


‎


Italy
Italian

Insana gioventù! Qualora esposta
ti veggo tanto agl'impeti d'amore,
di mia vecchiezza io mi consolo e rido.
Dolce è il mirar dal lido
chi sta per naufragar; non che ne alletti
il danno altrui ma sol perché l'aspetto
d'un mal che non si soffre è dolce oggetto.
Ma che? L'età canuta
non ha le sue tempeste? Ah! Che purtroppo
ha le sue proprie; e dal timor dell'altre
sciolta non è. Son le follie diverse
ma folle è ognuno; e a suo piacer n'aggira
l'odio o l'amor, la cupidigia o l'ira.
 
Siam navi all'onde algenti
lasciate in abbandono;
impetuosi venti
i nostri affetti sono;
ogni diletto è scoglio;
tutta la vita è mar.
 
Ben, qual nocchiero, in noi
veglia ragion; ma poi
pur dall'ondoso orgoglio
si lascia trasportar. (Parte)

source: Progetto Metastasio, L'Olimpiade, 1757[3]

United Kingdom
English literal translation

Foolish youth! When I see thee exposed
so much to the impulses of love,
I console myself with my old age and laugh.
Sweet is the sight from the shore
Of one who is about to be shipwrecked; not that the harm
of others' delights, but only because the sight
Of a misfortune that is not suffered is sweet.
But what? The grey-haired age
has not its storms? Ah! it alas
Has its own; and from the fear of others
It is not freed. The follies are various
But everyone is mad; and at their leisure,
they turn to hate or love, greed or wrath.

We are ships on the icy waves
Left to abandonment;
a raging storm
are our affections;
every pleasure is a reef;
all life is the sea.

Well, as a helmsman, in us
Reason watches; but then
Yet by the wave-like pride
Lets itself be carried away.

Translation: FR[4]

United Kingdom
English poetic translation

I see that love makes thee delirious* -
but we are all the slaves of some passion -
everyone is ruled by love or hate,
by anger or desire

We're vessels left to wander wide
Amidst a rough and stormy tide
Our furious passions that prevail
Are dang'rous winds that swell the sail;
Our life's the sea on which we steer
And pleasure is the rock we fear.

source: Libretto from the Cimarosa version, London 1788
B-Part missing
*) Both, the poetic English and the German version have
abbreviated the recitativo. [5]

Germany
German poetic translation

Unverständige Jugend, wie wirst du
von dessen stürmenden Leidenschaften hingerissen,
mein ruhiges Alter siehet deine Thorheit mit Mitleiden an.

Aber wie? Hat das graue Alter
nicht auch seine stürmischen Tage? O Ja, der Haß,
die Liebe, die Begierde, und der Zorn
treiben es gleichfalls zu Widerwärtigkeiten* und Sorgen.

Den Schiffen gleichen wir,
In wildem Meer verlassen,
Wenn heftige Winde hier,
Das morsche Ruder fassen
Dem Meer ist das Leben gleich
An Klippen durch Begierden reich.

Wir sind zwar Schiffer die erfahren,
Doch reißen** uns die Stürme hin,
Die über Geist, Vernunft und Sinn
Zu mächtig starke*** Meister waren.
(Gehet ab.)

*) Original: "Wiederwärtigkeiten"
**) Original: "reisen"
***) Original: "starcke"Source: Libretto, Munich, 1764[2]

Sources

Beginning of "Siam navi all'onde algenti," manuscript, ca. 1764
Beginning of "Siam navi all'onde algenti," manuscript, ca. 1764[6]
  • Free Score at the IMSLP:
Work Title L'Olimpiade
Alternative Title Dramma per musica in tre atti
Composer Bernasconi, Andrea
I-Catalogue Number IAB 11
Movements/Sections 3 Acts
First Performance 1764-01-20 in Munich, Hoftheater
Librettist Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
Language Italian
Composer Time Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voices, chorus, orchestra
Bernasconi, Andrea. "L'Olimpiade". IMSLP. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  • Libretto in German
L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte
per comandi di s.a.s.E. Massimiliano Giuseppe Duca dell'Alta, e Bassa Baviera ...
nel carnevale dell'anno MDCCLXIV
= Die Olimpischen Spiele : ein musicalisches Schau-Spiel,
welches aus höchstem Befehl Sr. Churfürstl. Durchleucht in Bayern &c. &c.
auf den Churfürstlichen neuen Theater in der Carnevals-Zeit Anno 1764. ist aufgeführet worden
Bernasconi, Andrea (1709). L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte. Monaco : Thuille, 1764. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.[2]
  • Libretto in English
L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts [altered from P. A. D. B. Metastasio],
as performed at the King's Theatre, etc. Ital. & Eng
(Cimarosa)
Bernasconi, Andrea (1788). L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts. British Library: Monaco : Stevenson. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "File:Andrea Bernasconi - Olimpiade - german titlepage of the libretto - München 1764.png". Wikipedia. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bernasconi, Andrea (1709). L' Olimpiade: dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel nuovo Teatro di Corte. Monaco : Thuille, 1764. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  3. ↑ Metastasio, Pietro. "Olimpiade, Torino, Reale, 1757". Progetto Metastasio. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  4. ↑ English translation: FR, with thanks to RI, 2024
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bernasconi, Andrea (1788). L'Olimpiade. A serious opera in two acts. British Library: Monaco : Stevenson. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  6. ↑ Bernasconi, Andrea. "L'Olimpiade". IMSLP. Archived from the original on November 1, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.

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