-- Lesson Scene -- "Barbiere" INTERPOLATIONS: dall'A alla Z

Speranza

Dall'A alla Z: towards THE (alphabetic) CATALOGUE RAISONNE ITSELF.

ACH ICH LIEBTE
(Mozart, Ratto del Seraglio). Interpolated by Pons

AH NON GIUNGE
Bellini, Sonnambula.
Interpolated by SEMBRICH.

AH NON SAI QUAL PENA
Mozart
Interpolated by Barrientos

AH, SI DI NUOVA SPEME -- (Pacini) -- C. Gualdi.

AH VOUS DIRAI-JE MAMAN
From "Le Toreador" (Adam)
Interpolated by Pons.

AL PENSAR EN EL DUENO (from Las Hijas del Zewbedeo -- Chapi) -- Elvira de
Hidalgo.

AN DER SCHOEN BLAUEN DONAU (Strauss) -- Hempel

ARIA -- Vaccaj -- "Pietro il Grande" (Royal Italian Opera),

BACIO, Il (Arditi) -- Hempel

BEL RAGGIO (Rossini, SEMIRAMIDE) -- Sayao.

BIONDINA IN GONDOLETTA, La.

CALESSERA, La -- Patti.

CHARMANT OISEAU (from La Perle du Bresil (David)) -- Antoine.

CONTRO UN COR CHE ACCENDE AMORE -- NOT an interpolation: Rossini's original
idea for the thing. It consists of three parts: cantabile, tempo di mezzo, e cabaletta.

DEH TORNA MIO BENE (Prosch)

DEH VIENI NON TARDAR (Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro) SAYAO.

DI GIOIA INSOLITA (waltz) -- Patti.

DI TANTI PALPITI -- interpolated by FODOR.

DOLENTI E CARE IMMAGINI -- (Bonfichi) rondo.

FAUVETTE, LA -- from "Zemire et Azor" (Gretry, La Forge) -- Pons

FIANCEE DU BANDIT, La -- (Malibran). Interpolated by P. Garcia.

FIOR DI MARGHERITA (Arditi)

GRANDE VALSE (Venzano) -- De Pasquali

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HOME SWEET HOME.
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere:
Home! Home! sweet, sweet Home!
|: There's no place like Home! :|
2. I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild
And feel that my mother now thinks of her child
As she looks on the moon from our own cottage door
Through the woodbine whose fragrance shall cheer me no more.
3. An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain
Oh, give me my low, thatched cottage again,
The birds singing gaily that come at my call,
Give me them with that peace of mind, dearer than all.
4. How sweet 'tis to sit neath a fond father's smile,
And the cares of a mother to soothe and beguile.
Let others delight 'mid new pleasures to roam,
But give me, oh give me the pleasures of home.
5. To thee I'll return overburdened with care,
The hearts dearest solace will smile on me there
No more from that cottage again will I roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

ICH MUSS NUN EINMAL SINGEN (Taubert) -- Sembrich
INCANTATRICE, L' (Arditi) -- Ottein
JE VEUX VIVRE (Romeo e Giulietta) -- Cora Chase.
Là là là air chéri (La stella -- Meyerbeer)-- Sembrich.

LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, The (PATTI)
The Last Rose of Summer is a poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore, who was a
friend of Byron and Shelley. Moore wrote it in 1805 while at Jenkinstown Park
in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Sir John Stevenson set the poem to its
widely-known melody, and this was published in a collection of Moore's work
called Irish Melodies (1807–34). In Ireland, it is claimed that the melody was
composed by George Alexander Osborne, a composer from Limerick City. Ludwig
Van Beethoven composed Theme and Three variations for flute and piano, Op
105, based on the song late in his life.Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy composed
a Fantasia in E major, Op. 15, based on the song (1827?, publ. London,
1830). Friedrich von Flotow uses the song in his opera "Martha," premiered in
1847 in Vienna. It is a favorite air ("Letzte Rose") of the character Lady
Harriet. The interpolation works, and indeed the song helped popularize the
opera. (According to the 1954 Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the
opera grew from an 1844 ballet-pantomime, "Lady Henriette," for which
Flotow wrote the music to Act One. Burgmuller and Deldevez wrote the rest of
the music; "Lady Henriette" was produced in Paris.) It has been arranged into
a set of extremely difficult variations by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst for the
violin. The song is mentioned by James Joyce in Ulysses.[1] It is also
mentioned by Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone. Opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini
began with the song in her free public concert in the streets of San
Francisco, California on Christmas Eve, 1910. [2] As well as being a common
phrase[citation needed], the poem is alluded to in the Grateful Dead song "Black
Muddy River". Clannad released a rendition of the song on their album Crann
Úll. Sarah Brightman recorded the song for her album The Trees They Grow So
High. It was made popular in the twenty-first century in a recording by
Charlotte Church and the Irish Tenors. It is sung in the musical group Celtic
Woman by Méav Ní Mhaolchatha and Hayley Westenra. Chloë Agnew's solo version
is recorded on her self-titled album. In the Celtic Woman: A New Journey
tours, she sang duets with Ní Mhaolchatha, Westenra, and the
vocalist-guitarist of the same group, Lynn Hilary. Agnew and Hilary are performing the
same version in the Isle Of Hope tour. Ní Mhaolchatha's solo version is
included in her Celtic Journey album. In the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan it
is the character Joe Pendelton’s inability to play “The Last Rose of Summer”
on his saxophone anything other than badly which allows him to prove that
he is alive in another man’s body; all the other characters think he is
the dead man from whom he got the body, but when he plays the sax for his old
boxing manager, he uses the same wrong note in the melody as he always
did, and which thus confirms his story of coming back from the after-life. In
the 16th (final) episode of the 6th season of the UK Channel 4 television
show Shameless, the song was sung by Jamie Maguire (played by Aaron
McCusker) at the funeral of his sister Mandy Maguire (Samantha Siddall). In the
1995 film An Awfully Big Adventure, the song is used as P.L. O'Hara's theme
music and is a recurrent musical motif in the film's score. The song was
featured in Ric Burns' documentary series, New York: A Documentary Film,
broadcast on PBS in the USA. The song was used in the game Endless Ocean: Blue
World as the theme of the Depths area of the Zahhab Region. It is also
playable on the jukebox that the player can purchase in-game. Off their 1977
album "Sin After Sin", Judas Priest recorded a song entitled "Last Rose of
Summer". Written by Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton, the song is all about
"unyielding love". A 1977 3 hr. Science Fiction BBC radio production written by
Stephen Gallagher. Fionnuala Sherry of the New Instrumental duo Secret Garden
released a version of the song titled "The Last Rose" on her solo debut
album "Songs From Before". February 2011, the song was featured in FOX TV
series,"The Chicago Code" Season 1 Episode 2, "Hog Butcher". This traditional
Irish song was sung by Jason Bayle, as the uniformed officer during the
memorial service of fallen Chicago police officer Antonio Betz. Laura Wright
recorded a version, featured on her album The Last Rose (2011)
'Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh.
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one!
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly I scatter,
Thy leaves o'er the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from Love's shining circle
The gems drop away.
When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
'Tis the last rose of summer left blooming alone
All her lovely companions are faded and gone
No flower of her kindred, no rosebud is nigh

To reflect back her blushes and give sigh for sigh
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, to pine on the stem
Since the lovely are sleeping, go sleep thou with them
Thus kindly I scatter thy leaves o'er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead
So soon may I follow when friendships decay
And from love's shining circle the gems drop away
When true hearts lie withered and fond ones are flown
Oh who would inhabit this bleak world alone?
This bleak world alone.

L'INUTILE PRECAUZIONE (Pietro Cimara) -- arietta -- using the words from
the opera, written in 1941, at the suggestion of Bidu Sayao.

LO, HEAR THE GENTLE LARK -- Bishop -- PONS. Of note is Bishop's 1819
musical comedy adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, which
included the popular coloratura soprano aria "Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark".

MAIDEN'S WISH, The (Chopin) -- Sembrich

MATTINATA (Tosti) -- N. Melba.

MAZURKA (Chopin) -- Sembrich

MERE La Birding (Chopin) -- SEMBRICH.

NACQUI ALL'AFFANO (Rossini, La Cenerentola) -- Tourel.

NIGHTINGALE, The (Alabiev, Roze) -- Lipkowska

OGGETTO AMABILE

OMBRA MESTA E LAGRIMOSA -- "No, not that one! Too boring". It is NOT sung -- only mentioned.

OMBRE LEGERE ("Shadow Song"). (Meyerbeer) -- from "Dinorah".

OLD FOLKS AT HOME -- N. Melba

O LUCE DI QUEST'ANIMA (Donizetti, "Linda") -- Munsel.

OU VA LA JEUNE (Lakme) Pons

PARLA (Arditi) -- Nielsen

PUR DICESTI (Lotti) -- Berger

QUEL BONHEUR JE RESPIRE -- Fra Diavolo, in Italian -- Peters.

QUI LA VOCE

SHADOW SONG -- from Dinorah -- vide "OMBRE LEGERE"

SOME DAY (Wellings) -- "too, too trite".

SWISS ECHO SONG

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

VILLANELLE -- (dell'Acqua) -- Pons

VOCI DI PRIMAVERA (waltz) Strauss -- SEMBRICH.