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The Ghosts of Hamlet

Lost Arias From Italian Baroque Operas

Roberta Mameli (soloist), Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte

The Ghosts of Hamlet

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Stonking performances and brilliant programming unite in this solo album...This recording brings together numbers from various settings of Zeno’s Ambleto. Roberta Mameli’s singing burns with...

BBC Music Magazine, April 20255 out of 5 stars

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The Ghosts of Hamlet

Lost Arias From Italian Baroque Operas

Roberta Mameli (soloist), Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte

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Stonking performances and brilliant programming unite in this solo album...This recording brings together numbers from various settings of Zeno’s Ambleto. Roberta Mameli’s singing burns with...

BBC Music Magazine, April 20255 out of 5 stars

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Ambleto is a fascinating curiosity in music history: a baroque libretto by Apostolo Zeno on the legend of Hamlet, not based on Shakespeare's tragedy but on its primary source, the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Gramaticus.

This swashbuckling drama has been first set to music by Francesco Gasparini (Venice 1705) - whose version served as the basis for a pasticcio (London 1712) with arias by various composers including Handel - then by Domenico Scarlatti (Rome 1715) and Giuseppe Carcani (Venice 1743).

The surviving arias from these lost operas are brought back to life by the Concert de l'Hostel Dieu and the charismatic soprano Roberta Mameli, who lends her supple voice to the titular Danish Prince and to the strong women around him, his courageous lover Veremonda (Shakespeare's Ophelia) and his tormented mother Gerilda (Gertrude).

  • Release date: 28th Feb 2025
  • Label: Arcana
  • Catalogue number: A574
  • Length: 67 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Carcani: Ambleto, Act II Scene 9: Son sdegnato (e son geloso)
Work length7:48
Gasparini: Ambleto, Act I Scene 8: Nella mia sfortunata prigionia
Work length6:21
Hasse, J A: Sinfonia No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 5
Work length10:52
  • Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu
  • Franck-Emmanuel Comte
I. Allegro
Track length4:09
II. Andante
Track length3:03
III. Allegro
Track length3:40
Handel: Ambleto, Act III Scene 2: Tu indegno sei dell’allor
Work length3:44
Gasparini: Ambleto, Act I Scene 6: Stelle, voi che de’ regnanti
Work length5:01
Carcani: Ambleto, Act I Scene 12: Segui ad amar costante
Work length7:35
Scarlatti, D: Sinfonia in D Minor
Work length3:12
  • Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu
  • Franck-Emmanuel Comte
I. Presto
Track length1:38
II. Minuet
Track length1:34
Scarlatti, D: Ambleto, Act I Scene 8: Nella mia sfortunata prigionia
Work length4:36
Pollarolo: L'Ambleto, Act III Scene 6: D’ire armato il braccio forte
Work length1:46
Gasparini: L’Ambleto, Overture in C Major
Work length4:07
  • Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu
  • Franck-Emmanuel Comte
I. Andante
Track length0:50
II. Presto
Track length1:41
III. Andante
Track length0:39
IV. Presto
Track length0:57
Gasparini: Ambleto, Act II Scene 6: Cinto d’amiche rose un dì crescea
Work length1:57
Carcani: Ambleto, Act II Scene 5: Più fido non poss’io
Work length7:09
Gasparini: Ambleto, Act I Scene 7: Tromba in campo e spada in guerra
Work length3:47

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Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    April 2025
    Opera & Stage Choice

April 2025

Stonking performances and brilliant programming unite in this solo album...This recording brings together numbers from various settings of Zeno’s Ambleto. Roberta Mameli’s singing burns with passion and virtuosity, aided by the inspired direction of Franck-Emmanuel Comte.
5 out of 5 stars

June 2025

Mameli and Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu display a harmonious kinship of intriguing repertoire and felicitous musical expressivity.
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