Gesine Heinrich sings Dante’s Inferno 1 (The Divine Comedy)
Released December 2021
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita (I,1-63)
Dante incontra Virgilio: Quando vidi costui (I,64-136)
Beatrice: O anima cortese mantoana (II,58-74)
La Porta: Lasciate ogne speranza (III,1-9)
Francesca: Amor ch’al cor gentil (V,100-107)
Francesca: Nessun maggior dolore (V,121-123)
Cerbero, fiera crudele e diversa (VI, 13-33)
Gli avari e i prodhigi - Qui vidi gente (VII,25-66)
Filippo Argenti - Quei fu al mondo persona orgogliosa (VIII,46-63)
Gerione - I’m’assettai in su quelle spalacce (XVII,91-136)
Dante‘s „Divine Comedy“ is a spectacular journey in 3 parts and 100 Canti. It brings us from the deepest dark, Inferno, via the lighter dark, Purgatorio, into the light, Paradiso.
On New Year‘s Eve 2021 Gesine Heinrich meets Dante Alighieri from 1321. The beginning of a dramatic adventure scored by haunting strings and one powerful voice. The singer and composer lets him guide her through his Inferno-Hell. Together they meet Virgilio, the antique poet, Dante‘s hero. And so he becomes their guide: Beatrice visits from Paradise, Francesca da Rimini tells about love, Cerbero demonstrates his cruelty, the miserly and the prodigal suffer from Sisyphean task by clashing huge rolling weights against each other and then-arrogant-now-weeping-Filippo Argenti makes gentle Dante wish to see him dunked in the mud. Finally the horrible monster Gerione brings Gesine – sitting safely on the beast‘s back with Dante and Virgilio – to the Eighth Circle of Hell.
