Vide Cor Meum
Vide cor meum (See my heart) is an aria composed by Irish composer Patrick Cassidy from his opera Dante based on Dante Alighieri's Vita Nova, specifically on the sonnet A ciascun'alma presa, third chapter.[1]
Composition
The song was performed by Libera / The Lyndhurst Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Greenaway. The main voices belong to Danielle de Niese and Bruno Lazzaretti who sing some fragments taken from La Vita Nuova, supposedly assembled with no grammatical or syntactic sequence. The result of this technique is, in fact, a heterogeneous but harmonic composition; its lyrics allow the audience to be part of an extraordinary event: an inner dream and unearthly dialogue, to which Dante Alighieri (in Florentine dialect) and God (in Latin) take part. Love, Beatrice and Dante's heart are the main topic. So the linguistic "nonsense" becomes pure illusion.
Productions
The song first appeared in the movie Hannibal (2001), while Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Italian Inspector Pazzi see an outdoor opera in Florence, and was specially composed for the movie. This aria was chosen to be performed at the 73rd Oscars in 2001 during the presentation of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial award to producer Dino De Laurentiis and at the 53rd Annual Emmy awards.[citation needed]
Patrick Cassidy composed his first opera Dante premieres at Theater Hof in Bavaria, in 2024. Vide Cor Meum is included in Dante opera[2]
It was also used in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005), during King Baldwin IV's death scene and following funeral.[citation needed]
As an homage to the films, the score was used in the final scene of the first and second season finales of NBC's Hannibal.[citation needed]
Releases
Patrick Cassidy's Vide Cor Meum (20th Anniversary Edition) in 2020 - Single by London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices, Ben Parry, Vivica Genaux & Matthew Long by Supertrain Records
Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins releases a version of Vide Cor Meum on her album Music from the Movies (2012) with the Czech Film Orchestra, David Rowland and Rhys Meirion
British vocal group Blake recorded Vide Cor Meum on their first album Blake (2007) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
English soprano Sarah Brightman recorded Vide Cor Meum for her World Tour Limited Edition bonus track on her Hymn (album).
References
- ↑ Ridley Scott:A Critical Filmography. p. 123. Search this book on
- ↑ "https://www.theater-hof.de/musiktheater/detail/dante--from-inferno-to-paradise". www.theater-hof.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2024-05-12. External link in
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External links
- References to Dante in the movie Hannibal, archived from greatdante.net
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