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Elettra's recitativo and aria "Tutte nel cor vi sento" from Idomeneo.
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
Libretto: Giambattista Varesco (1735-1805).
Premiere: 29 January 1781, Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich.
/Synopsis
Helen, the beautiful wife of King Menelaus of Greece, was carried off by Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, triggering the Trojan War. Agamemnon, Menelaus’s brother, rallied the other Greek kings and joined forces to lay siege to the city of Troy. One of Agamemnon’s allies was King Idomeneo of Crete, whose army helped to deliver a victory over the Trojans.
After ten long years of war, Idomeneo is finally on his way home. Some of his forces have already returned, bringing back Trojan captives including Priam’s daughter, princess Ilia. The ship carrying Ilia was hit by a storm and sank, but she was rescued from the waves by Idomeneo’s son, Idamante. Upon his own return from war, Agamemnon was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus; Elettra’s brother, Orestes, took revenge on the unfaithful by killing them both. Elettra fled from their home in Argos, and is now taking refuge in Crete.
Island of Crete, c. 1200 B.C. At the palace, Ilia is grieving for her father and brothers, who were killed by the Greek army in the siege on Troy. But while she hates Idomeneo, she has fallen in love with his son, Idamante, who has ruled Crete in his father’s absence (“Padre, germani, addio!”-Father, brothers, farewell!). Although Idamante proclaims his love for her, Ilia, cannot bring herself to admit her feelings for him (Non ho colpa-I am not guilty). As a gesture of goodwill, Idamante releases the Trojan captives; they join the Cretans in rejoicing this newfound peace (“Godiam la pace”-Let us enjoy peace). The king’s advisor, Arbace, brings the news that the king’s returning fleet was shipwrecked in a storm and that Idomeneo has drowned. Elettra does not approve of Idamante’s decision to free the prisoners, and upon hearing the news of Idomeneo’s ruin, she realizes that her aspirations of marriage have been similarly dashed (“Tutte nel cor vi sento”-In my heart I feel you, Furies of bitter Hades).
/Lyrics
Estinto è Idomeneo?... Tutto a miei danni,
tutto congiura il ciel! Può a suo talento
Idamante disporre
d'un impero, e del cor, e a me non resta
ombra di speme? A mio dispetto, ahi lassa!
vedrò, vedrà la Grecia a suo gran scorno,
una schiava troiana di quel soglio,
e del talamo a parte... invano Elettra
ami l'ingrato... e soffre
una figlia d'un re, ch'ha re vassalli,
ch'una vil schiava aspiri al grand'acquisto?...
Oh sdegno! Oh smanie! oh duol!... più non resisto.
Tutte nel cor vi sento,
furie del crudo averno,
lunge a sì gran tormento
amor, mercé, pietà.
Chi mi rubò quel core,
quel che tradito ha il mio,
provi dal mio furore,
vendetta e crudeltà.
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