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Ascanio in Alba, K.111 / Part 1 : Mozart: Ascanio in Alba, K.111 / Part 1: "Si, ma d'un altro amore" - No. 13 Cavatina
by Edith Mathis
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About "Ascanio in Alba, K.111 / Part 1 : Mozart: Ascanio in Alba, K.111 / Part 1: "Si, ma d'un altro amore" - No. 13 Cavatina" by Edith Mathis
Mozart's early opera seria sparkles in this cavatina, where Mathis's silvery tone traces a lover's ambivalence. The music is courtly yet restless, a gilded cage of ornamentation. Underneath the elegance, a flicker of doubt—desire measured against duty—keeps the aria from settling into mere prettiness.