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High resolution and stereo sound: “Del destin non dee lagnarsi“, from the opera Bajazet, RV 703 Libretto: Agostino Piovene Music: Antonio Vivaldi First performance: Verona, during the Carnival season of 1735 Bajazet is a pasticcio by Antonio Vivaldi. The story is about the fate of Bajazet (known as Beyazid I) after being captured by Tamerlane (Tamerlano/Timur-e-Lang). Vivaldi himself composed the arias for the good characters and mostly used existing arias from other composers for the villains in this opera. Some of the arias are reused from previous Vivaldi operas; this particular aria was taken from his L'Olimpiade (Venice, Carnival 1734). For this video, I used a computerized score of the aria “Del destin non vi lagnate“ from L'Olimpiade; I simply replaced the text with the Bajazet version. The score can be found here:
