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"Quante Stelle", Venus-idyll
(Johan Sanctorum: "Cesare Borgia', Act I )
- Annelies Meskens, soprano
Unlike the first Venus-song 'Io spero e lo sperar', this idyll has no content but its own lyrical apotheosis in which text is almost vanishing.
In front of the agressor of Firenze, Cesare Borgia, Venus, patroness of the city, develops her full femininity... making love to herself. The composer applied a 'pointillistic' music style with thousands of small notes, evocating an infinity of stars at night, as a mirror of Venus' glorified and twinkling body. This 'Venus-Idyll' intends to be a paraphrase and tender parody of Botticelli's famous painting 'The Birth of Venus'. Lyrics are from Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly', by Johan Sanctorum identified as a Venus-incarnation. The extremely lyrical style of this song refers in many ways to Italian opera tradition, although embedded in a voice-dramatical and tragical infrastructure, referring to Wagner and R. Strauss.
In tegenstelling tot de eerste Venus-Canzonetta is de inhoud van deze aria pure natuurmystieke stemming, glijdend naar een lyrische apotheose, waarin de woorden haast verdwijnen.
De tekst van deze aria is ontleend aan het libretto van Illica en Ciacosa voor Puccini's Madame Butterfly (einde Iste bedrijf, net voor het grote liefdesduet). Sanctorum bestemde de aria als hommage aan Giacomo Puccini, en recupereert de tekst tot een murmelende stroom van vocalen die helemaal wegzinkt in de lyrisch-extatische muzikale bedding van de diva. De partituur bestaat uit een enorme massa noten die in een haast "pointillistische" techniek de tinteling van het Venuslichaam suggereren, als spiegel van de oneindige sterrenhemel. In de confrontatie tussen Cesare Borgia en Venus grijpt de liefdesgodin inderdaad naar het ultieme redmiddel... en doet het met zichzelf, tot de verbijstering van de veroveraar,- volgens de componist meteen de verborgen betekenis van Botticelli's meesterwerk.
Quante stelle!
Non le vidi
Mai si belle!
Ah...dolce notte...
Trema, brilla,
Notte serena.
Ogni favella
Col baglior
d'una pupilla... Ah!
Ah, quanti occhi
Fisi, attenti
d'Ogni parte a riguardar..:
Ride il Ciel!
Trema, brilla,
Ogni favella,
Ah, que dolce notte,
Ride il ciel...
Tutto estatico d'amor!
Pei firmamenti...
Via pei lidi...
Via pel mare
Amor...
Quante stelle
Non le vidi mai si belle...
Cala, cala,
Dolce notte
Notte...
Music: Johan Sanctorum
Lyrics : Illica & Ciacosa
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CD: Maupertuis
Label: SantaLucia
Credits: Johan Sanctorum |
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