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George Frideric Handel, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a

I, 1: Sonata

I, 2: "Fido specchio"

I, 3: "Io che sono il Piacere"

I, 4: "Fosco genio, e nero duolo"

I, 5: "Ed io che' Tempo sono..."

I, 6: "Se la bellezza perde vaghezza"

I, 7: "Dunque si prendan l'armi..."

I, 8: "Una schiera di piaceri"

I, 9: "I colossi del sole"

I, 10: "Urne voi"

I, 11: "Sono troppo crudeli"

I, 12: "Il voler nel fior degl'anni"

I, 13: "Della vita mortale"

I, 14: "Un pensiero nemico di pace"

I, 15: "Folle, tu nieghi il Tempo"

I, 18: "Questa è la reggia mia"

I, 19: Sonata

I, 20: "Un leggiadro giovinetto"

I, 23: "Crede l'uom"

I, 24: "Te credi che sia lungi"

I, 25: "Folle, dunque tu sola presumi"

I, 26: "La reggia del Piacer vedesti"

I, 27: "Se non sei più ministro di pene"

II, 1: "Se del falso piacere"

II, 3: "In tre parti divise"

II, 4: "Io sperai trovar nel vero"

II, 5: "Tu vivi invan dolente"

II, 6: "Tu giurasti"

II, 7: "Sguardo, che infermo"

II, 8: "Io vorrei"

II, 9: "Io giurerei"

II, 10: "Più non cura"

II, 11: "E un ostinato errore"

II, 12: "È ben folle"

II, 13: "Dicesti il vero"

II, 14: "Voglio Tempo"

II, 15: "Presso la reggia"

II, 16: "Lascia la spina"

II, 17: "Con troppo chiare note"

II, 18: "Voglio cangiar desio"

II, 19: "Or che tiene la destra"

II, 23: "Si, bella Penitenza"

II, 24: "Il bel pianto dell'aurora"

II, 25: "Piacer, che meco già vivesti"

II, 26: "Come nembo"

II, 27: "Pure del Cielo"

II, 28: "Tu del Ciel ministro eletto"

Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Krzysztof Warlikowski (stage director), Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor) – With Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza), Franco Fagioli (Piacere), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno)...

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Cast

Krzysztof Warlikowski — Stage director

Małgorzata Szczęśniak — Set designer, costume designer

Christian Longchamp — Dramaturgy

Felice Ross — Lighting designer

Claude Bardouil — Choreographer

Denis Guéguin — Video

Sabine Devieilhe — Bellezza

Program notes

This sublime performance of Handel's first oratorio is "as good as opera gets," according to The New York Times! Staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski for the 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival and conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, it stars Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Michael Spyres, and Sara Mingardo in top form. 

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, composed in Rome in 1707, features four allegorical characters: Beauty, Pleasure, Time and Disappointment. "Beauty chooses to ignore that existence is finite, preferring to admire herself in the mirror of Pleasure. But Time and Truth constantly remind her that 'beauty is a flower that blooms in a day and then dies."

Under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm, the Concert d'Astrée accompanies a brilliant cast featuring Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza), Franco Fagioli (Piacere), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno) and Michael Spyres (Tempo).

This oratorio is a scandal. Reading its libretto is a shock. It's a purely dogmatic work whose title mirrors works from Stalin's Russia. Every performance of Trionfo should be preceded by a commentary discussing its ideological content […]. We are far from the Greeks and their mythology. We are in Rome, at the heart of religious power, in the center of the Counter-Reformation. Krzysztof Warlikowski.

Picture: © Pascal Victor

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