Revised edition of the opera prepared by Florian Bauer for ROSSINI IN WILDBAD
Includes the alternative Isabella aria (Milan, 1816), edited and orchestrated by Stefano Piano
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Rossini’s ‘rescue opera’ L’inganno felice (The Happy Deception) won immediate contemporary popularity after its first performance in 1812. One of the composer’s most inventive and sparkling scores, with soprano, tenor and bass arias of great beauty, it is today by far the least well-known and least often performed of his five farces written for Venice. The drama concerns the attempt of Isabella, wrongly rejected by her husband the Duke, and her protector, the miner Tarabotto to bring to justice the Duke’s villainous confidant Ormondo and his henchman Batone, and to reconcile Isabella with her husband. The end is happily achieved, the guilty punished and the innocent triumphant.
Gioachino Rossini: L'inganno felice
Scene 1: Introduction
Scene 2: Cosa dite! Ma cosa dite! (Tarabotto, Isabella)
Scene 3: Ebben, che ascondi a Tarabatto? (Isabella, Tarabotto)
Scene 4: Qual tenero diletto (Bertrando)
Scene 5: Ebben, che tenta il Duca mio vivino? (Bertrando, Ormondo, Batone, Tarabotto, Isabella)
Scene 6: Una voce m'ha colpito (Batone)
Scene 7: Egli resto indeciso (Isabella, Tarabotto, Bertrando)
Scene 8: Quel sembiante, quello sguardo (Tarabotto, Isabella, Bertrando)
Scene 9: Oh, l'impressione e fatta, e sembra in bene! (Tarabotto, Bertrando, Ormondo)
Scene 10: Tu mi conosci e sai (Ormondo)
Scene 11: Me la paghera tua vita (Batone, Tarabotto)
Scene 12: Va taluno mormorando (Batone, Tarabotto)
Scene 13: E deciso! (Tarabotto, Isabella)
Scene 14: Al piu dolce a caro oggetto (Isabella)
Scene 15: Son fuor di me! Il mio caso (Tarabotto, Ormondo, Bertrando)
Scene 16: Tacita notte amica (Batone, Isabella, Tarabotto, Ormondo, Bertrando)
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Scene 1: Introduction