, and is the only oratorio he ever wrote. Its two parts comprise sixteen arias, with solo or choral parts, scored for soloists, choir and orchestra. Not performed in Mozart's lifetime, "Betulia liberata" hews stylistically to works by Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo

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 and Johann Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse

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.

Dramatis personae (for the Mozart)

• Ozia (Ozias), governor of Bethulia (tenor)
• Giuditta (Judith), widow of Manasseh
  Manasseh
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   (alto)
• Amital, noblewoman of Israel
  Israel
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   (soprano)
• Achior, prince of the Ammonites (bass)
• Cabri (Cabris) e Carmi, populace' chiefs (sopranos)
• Bethulians (chorus)

The work (Mozart)

Parte prima

1. Overtura
2. Recitativo: Popoli di Betulia (Ozia)
3. Aria #1: D’ogni colpa la colpa maggiore (Ozia)
4. Recitativo: E in che sperar? (Cabri, Amital)
5. Aria #2: Ma qual virtù non cede (Cabri)
6. Recitativo: Già le memorie antiche (Ozia, Cabri, Amital)
7. Aria #3: Non hai cor (Amital)
8. Recitativo: E qual pace sperate (Ozia, Amital, Coro)
9. Aria con il Coro #4: Pietà, se irato sei (Ozia, Coro)
10. Recitativo: Chi è costei che qual sorgente aurora (Cabri, Amital, Ozia, Giuditta)
11. Aria #5: Del pari infeconda (Giuditta)
12. Recitativo: Oh saggia, oh santa (Ozia, Cabri, Giuditta)
13. Aria con il Coro #6: Pietà, se irato sei (Ozia, Coro)
14. Recitativo: Signor, Carmi a te viene (Cabri, Amital, Carmi, Ozia, Achior)
15. Aria #7: Terribile d’aspetto (Achior)
16. Recitativo: Ti consola, Achior (Ozia, Cabri, Achior, Giuditta)
17. Aria #8: Parto inerme, e non pavento (Giuditta)
18. Coro #9: Oh prodigio! Oh stupor! (Coro)

Parte seconda

1. Recitativo: Troppo mal corrisponde (Achior, Ozia)
2. Aria #10: Se Dio veder tu vuoi (Ozia)
3. Recitativo: Confuso io son (Achior, Ozia, Amital)
4. Aria #11: Quel nocchier che in gran procella (Amital)
5. Recitativo: Lungamente non dura (Ozia, Amital, Coro, Cabri, Giuditta, Achior)
6. Aria #12: Prigionier che fa ritorno (Giuditta)
7. Recitativo: Giuditta, Ozia, popoli, amici (Achior)
8. Aria #13: Te solo adoro (Achior)
9. Recitativo: Di tua vittoria (Ozia, Amital)
10. Aria #14: Con troppa rea viltà (Amital)
11. Recitativo: Quanta cura hai di noi (Cabri, Carmi, Ozia, Amital)
12. Aria #15: Quei moti che senti (Carmi)
13. Recitativo: Seguansi, o Carmi (Ozia, Amital, Cabri, Achior, Giuditta)
14. Aria con il Coro #16: Lodi al gran Dio (Giuditta, Coro)

Recordings (of the Mozart)

• W.A. Mozart: La Betulia Liberata, Leopold Hager
  Leopold Hager
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  , Philips
  Philips
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  422522-2
• W.A. Mozart: La Betulia Liberata, Carlo Felice Cillario, A. Charlin AMS 2627/8-2
• W.A. Mozart: La Betulia Liberata, Mario Rossi
  Mario Rossi
  Mario Rossi was an Italian conductor, noted for his solid and meticulous readings of a repertory ranging from Italian classics to Russian moderns such as Prokoffiev, to the German operatic classicist Christoph Willibald Gluck.He studied composition in Rome with Respighi and conducting with Giacomo...
  
  , Opera d'Oro
• W.A. Mozart: La Betulia Liberata, Peter Maag
  Peter Maag
  -Life:He was born on 10 May 1919 in St. Gallen, Switzerland and died on 16 April 2001 in Verona, Italy.His father, Otto, was a Lutheran minister and his mother, Nelly, a violinist who performed in the Capet Quartet as second violinist. His great uncles were conductors Emil and Fritz Steinbach. ...
  
  , Brilliant Classics
  Brilliant Classics
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  , 99944
• W.A. Mozart: La Betulia Liberata, Christoph Poppen
  Christoph Poppen
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  , Deutsche Grammophon
  Deutsche Grammophon
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  , DVD 4400734248
• W.A. Mozart: La Betulia Liberata, Oficina Musicum, OnClassical
  OnClassical
  OnClassical is a small Italian independent record label based in Pove del Grappa, Italy. It features classical music mostly for piano or chamber ensemble.- History :...
  
  recording, 2006

All recordings are in double CD package.

External links

• The Liberation of Bethulia