Piu che penso

This piece is from the Opera :
Serse

This piece is for the role/s :
Serse

Amastre has overheard Serse speaking of the woman he loves and is overjoyed. But she quickly discovers that he is talking of Romilda and forgets herself enough to call out that he is a liar. Serse is furious, and Amastre, still disguised as a man, creates a hasty explanation that "his" cry was to his page, who claimed that the bridge built by Serse would collapse. Serse dismisses them as fools, and returns to his thoughts of Romilda. The more he thinks of her, the more his passion burns within his heart, so much so that he can hardly contain the emotion.

An extended aria for mezzo rising from a low C to a high A. The accompaniment is filled with sizzling demisemiquaver figures in the lower and upper strings, and flurries of trills representing the flames of Serse's passion crackling in his breast. The aria is unusual in that it has two unaccompanied cadenzas (both repeated in the da capo) containing the most extended vocal writing. There are opportunities in the da capo to add the strings of trills that already appear in the accompaniment.

This aria represents Serse's first flush of passion for Romilda as strong emotions course through his body.

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