“Quand le bien-aimé reviendra” (scene 6)
Sung by Nina in Nina, ou la folle par amour (1786), scene 6.
Libretto: Marsollier des Vivetières; music: Nicolas Dalayrac.
Orchestral score: Nina, ou la folle par amour: Comédie en un Acte et an Prose; mise en musique par M. Dal*** (Paris 1786); premiered on 15 May 1786. [*]
Here piano accompaniment with Joan Sutherland singing the original French libretto (Bibliothèque nationale de France; Musique, VMG-59013):
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[*] Illustration: Louise Dugazon singing the lines from the aria, “Paix! il appelle, hélas! hélas! Le bien-aimé n’appelle pas!” (“Hush! hush! he calls! — Alas! alas! / The well-beloved calls not me!”) (Jean-François Janinet, Mme Dugazon dans le rôle de Nina de la ‘Folle par amour’ (1786) (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris).
Audio sequencing, arranging, editing, and production © 2025 by Dave Moyer, Lonesome Studios Productions. All rights reserved; unauthorized duplication is prohibited. Used by permission. — Created on the Yamaha Motif-6 Music Production Synthesizer and Roland JV-1080 (Expanded) 64-Voice Synthesizer Module. Recorded through a Focusrite Scarlett 4/4 A/D Converter using NCH Mixpad Multitrack Recording Software and NCH Wavepad Masters Edition Audio Editing Software.
Performance note: This original orchestral version of the aria appears here for the first time as an audio recording; special thanks to Dave Moyer. Back.