Moonlight Shadows

Nebula Oj22 & Audiodisciples Collaboration

Storms' Brewing

May 2, 2024
Image based on a photo by Todd Tuddle

MOREL

Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's L'Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

Special thanks goes to my fabulous vocal coach Helen Roberts for providing the full orchestral experience.

I hope you'll enjoy!

The Plot

Orlando, a great knight in Charlemagne's army, falls desperately in love with the pagan princess Angelica, who is in turn in love with another man, Medoro. Orlando cannot accept this and he is driven to madness, prevented from causing absolute carnage only by the magician Zoroastro who eventually restores his sanity.

In the aria "Sorge Infausta Una Procella" (An inauspicious tempest rises) Zoroastro tries to mend the circumstances that have caused Orlando to go insane. He declares that it is possible for Orlando's sorrow to one day become his greatest joy.

Lyrics

Sorge infausta una procella, che oscurar fa il cielo e mare
splende fausta poi la stella
che ogni cor ne fa goder.

Può talor il forte errare, ma risorto dall'errore,
quel che pria gli diè dolore, causa immenso il suo poter.

English

Rough tempests arise which obscure heaven and seas.
A brighter star does then impart its rays
and gladdens every heart.

The strong may often err, but when they see their error,
What was once a source of woe, then turns to joy.

Sorge Infausta Una Procella (Orlando - Georg Friedrich Handel)

A nice little rag

Washburn R305, drop d, second fret capo.
Takamine Classic Drop d, also second fret capo.

Donnies Rag

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