Poem in free verses

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 A unique soul

 I'm far from you now

but we were supposed to be

only one flesh 

may be 

a unique soul.

Out the Sardos (Aforas sos Sardos)

 

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Out the Sardos

(Aforas sos Sardos)

Musical based on the script in Sardinian  language written

by Ignazio Salvatore Basile

 

The dialogues and texts of the characters are part of the libretto and therefore belong to the author Ignazio Salvatore Basile. Music, scenes, costumes and choreography, unless otherwise specified, belong to the traditional cultural heritage of Sardinia and Spain.

The characters and the events presented on scene, although linked to some historical facts, belong to the author's fantasy.

 

 

Characters and Interpreters

 

Rosina Murenu - Sewer in the Viceroy Palace –Felipe’s  girlfriend

Felipe Sangermano y Mendoza- Son of the Viceroy –Rosina’s boyfriend

Put it Sangermano Duke of Mendoza - Viceroy of Sardinia

Donna Francisca Lacon de Siete Fuentes – Wife of viceroy and mother of Felipe (does not appear)

Don Giacomo Alivesi - noble Sardinian spy of  the viceroy

Lazzarino Murenu - Fisherman, father of Rosina

Boricu Lallai - Blacksmith –also  in love with  Rosina

Cosimo Delogu - Watchmaker and Goldmaker

Severinu Loy - Barman

Lieutenant Degortes - Chief of the Guards

Spanish castle guards - also Colombian dancers

Customers of the Public House "Sa Marina"

Troublemakers of different Sardinian guilds

Noble lost Sardines (do not appear)

 

At the beginning the curtain will open on a stage set by Castello as the central backdrop for the stage. The soldiers will be in old Spanish dress. The Ballet will perform a traditional Spanish dance "Sevillana" in whose notes the male choir will sing the following Aria

FIRST SCENE

Male Choir and Ballet of the Spanish Guard

ARIA "OUTSIDE THE SARDOS"

 

Outside the Sardos present, fast away!

Outside the Sardos present, all  Sardos present

Must  go away!

Get out! You Sardos go away!

 

Outside inkwells and outside blacksmiths,

 outside barbers and copy papers!

 

Out the Sardos present, out of here!

Out all  the Sardos present, out all the Sardos present,

Out all  the Sardos present here!

Out of here! Out of here!!

 

Outside inkwells and outside barbers,

outside blacksmiths with fans!

 

SECOND SCENE

(Rosina and Felipe)

 

With a play of lights, the attention of the Second Scene is concentrated in an intimate corner of the Viceregio Palace.

 

Rosina (deferringly the lover's hug)

 

- Have you heard that? They are  locking the doors  up! I have to go!

 

Felipe (with passion)

 

- Wait a little while! Give me another little kiss. Until tomorrow we can't even talk to each other ... (they will kiss each other hotly again while they hear in the distance the screech of the doors that rise for the closing of the afternoon)

 

Rosina (c.s.)

 

- I beg you, let me go, my father puts himself in thought!

 

Felipe (reluctantly)

 

- ‘ See you tomorrow then!

 

Rosina

For sure!

 

Felipe (always hugging her)

 

- I don't see the time, my beautiful girlfriend!

 

Rosina (c.s.)

 

- Bye, my love !! (Comes out)

SCENA TERZA

 

ARIA di FELIPE

Tenor

 

I ask myself

until when

Iron chains

will be closed

To separate hearts?

 

Until when

Portals and wrinkles

will be closed

To separate loves?

 

Fast, you, warm sun

get up earlier

and come back to take

To my cold heart

the light of the eyes

They deliver peace!

 

Moon then

Sleep fast

Because if you are awake

My life is uncertain!

 

FOURTH SCENE

(Outside the walls of the Castle- Lazzarin and Boricu)

 

Lazzarin (looking towards the door)

 

-Where might Rosina be? Soon the doors will be locked ...

 

Boricu

 

- But when this story is finished I don't want her among  foreign people!

 

Lazzarin

 

- We will talk of that when the time is come!

 

(Rosina appears going quickly)

FIFTH SCENE

(Abovesaid and Rosina)

 

Lazzarin

 

- Hurry up, Rosina! Why did you delay like this?

 

Rosina

 

- Excuse me, father! Lady Francisca would like to measure a dress!

 

Boricu (with a threatening movement directed towards the walls)

 

- They throw us out, as if we were dogs ...

 

Rosina

- Cheers, Boricu!

 

Boricu (lighting up)

 

- Cheers to you, Rosina! We were worried about you with your father !

 

Rosina

- But you shouldn't worry! In the viceroy's house I am safe  as if I were in my own house!

 

Boricu (c.s.)

 

- How can you be safe in the house of someone who treats us like this?

 

Lazzarin

 

- Get away from here! The doors are getting  up! (the squeak of the chains will be heard while moving with effort)

 

The scenery could illuminate the panel again the central of the second scene until the fourth when Boricu will sing its air.

 

ARIA di Boricu

Tenor

 

I’m longing for the  time

They won't throw us  outside anymore ’

From the Grandparents’ Home!

 

The time will come

That old people from Caller

should not live anymore

The insult of the alien owners

Who when it gets dark

Until the sun  rises again,

Because of the enclosure,

They don't let us stay

In the Castle above:

Friends in sunlight

Enemies with the moon!

 

 

Six SCENE

(Tavern “A Sa Marina” - Don Alivesi- Cosimo Delogu- Lazzarin Murenu- Boricu Lallai and other conspirators sitting at different tables. On a table are the four already named before, gathered by Don Giacomo Alivesi, to plan the insurrection against the Spaniards; you have to prepare a set of an inn from the late 16th century with tables, chairs and wooden ornaments.)

 

Don Alivesi (handing over a bag of money to all three)

 

- Here are three hundreds  guineas. When you finish the job there will be another two hundred to each of you! Has everyone well understood?

 

Cosimo (greedily grabbing the bag)

 

- Of course! First of all we pick up the son of Viceroy Felipe and then, in a few months time all the Caller guilds will be scrambled to throw all the foresters and Spaniards who live in Caller into the sea!

Don Alivesi

- This is how a really  Sard talks ! (Rising  he will begin with a bass voice on Air)

ARIA "O SARDOS"

Low

 

O Sardos, who live in poverty

And in anguish!

Ready is the time for us

To raise our head

And to be  commanding

in our own Home

 children of Eleonora and Mariano

children of Sardinia!

 

(After singing the air, D. Alivesi leaves)

 

SEVENTH SCENE

(In the center you have to have enough space for the Dance of the seventh scene that will close the First Part. The Dance will be a traditional dance of Sardinia, with traditional costumes for example Ballu Tundu (a Circle Dance): better if in the taverna are ladies too, always with the typical Sardinian dress, to be able to participate in pairs to the dance and the party. In the Dance the dancers, one at a time, will separate from the group to go to the center of the scene, to recite as First Voice or Second Voice , while the rest of the Group dance in a circle and sing the Echinechinachinò Air in chorus, tongue twister that means: Whoiswhosaysno?)

 

Cosimo Delogu

 

- Everybody dance! Make the party with wine and dances! Alè !

 

ARIA ECHINECHINACHINO ’?

Charles Borbon Second King

Let's dance round dance!

 

Chorus: Echinèchinàchinò?

 

First Voce: The Viceroy

Duke of Mendoza

that life enjoys it!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

Second Voice: and his girlfriend is Francisca

She is pretty like sparkling  water!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

First Voice. The majors of Spain

Venomous as a spider!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

Second Voice: priests, nuns and bishops

The church is with the rectors!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

First  Voice: Guilds and  people from the sea

Live quiet without any medicine!

 

Chorus: E chinèchinàchinò?

 

End of First  Part

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The wasted love

 

Along the path

Of my wasted loves

Travels my mind

Through the beams

of the night

And I realize 

now I miss

The God's  wasted love!

 

In Cagliari 2017

Sparks of faith

 

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History of Moses

 

A tribute now I pay right away,

and it is due to the warlord  Moses,

when Egyptians  began to scary and fray,

at the times of  great pharaoh  Ramses,

seeing the Jews increasing day by day

felt the risk that the raising forces

could push  them on arms and in case of war,

they would  won and escape furthermore!

 

And despite of  the very hard duties,

which  Egyptians had obliged all of them,

instead to decrease  on numbers and values,

made more skill and more dangerous men

at the eyes of the same torturers,

consequently  the Pharaoh then

for any newborn male made an edict

 to be drowned in the river of Egypt. 

 

 

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Descendants  of Adam and Eve 

 

Then Adam knew Eve and she conceived 

Cain. She said “Now I have got a man”. 

A second time was pregnant Eve, glad

To give Abel his birth. But while Cain 

Was  farmer,  shepherd was Abel instead!

The eldest his fruits  to  God more sane

Did give,  and Abel  best  from his flock

More pleasing God, what made to  Cain a shock.

 

 

It goes on longing for real liberty 

which will arrive with Christ  Redeemer 

the trip of restless and strain  uncertainty 

of the unworthy human gene and traitor 

Whom will mislead with great  iniquity, 

Off from right furrows the seeds of  honor

 Abel was murdered by his own brother 

Cain, who will be for it,  pun'shed rather.

 

 

It was up to Set and his descendents 

Enòs, Kenan, Iared, Matusalem 

before the ark sailed through tempestuous seas 

with Capitan Noè and best of them

Whom   God off   from big flood wanted to please

To resolve the everlasting problem 

that Evil in the mud was sinking dead

and  for His glory Good could raise instead. 

 

But  Noè’s father  hasn’t to be confused 

With the homonym that ascends to Cain, 

to Whom  gave Ada, after conceived

 Iùbal;  Zilla gives him  a son again,

Tubàlkain, father of those who’re used 

Working  iron and copper. Is not vain

To say that from Zilla each flute’s player 

Descends, as well as those who play cither!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The World’s Creation

 

At the beginning God created the sky

And the earth, which was shapeless and desert

And darkness cover’d the abysses close by;

But on the waters, with divine, expert

Zeal, God established that obscurity

Had to be opened to the bright alert!

God, seeing that it was good, called Day the light.

And the darkness instead was named Night.

 

Then beneath the waters, the firmament

set God, and between them, b’low, the dry land

He also set, whither at same moment,

To any bud and tree He gave command

From seed to be produc’d for nourishment

Of any species, in ground, soil or sand!

After He had named sky, earth and sea

To following duty God had to begin.

  

 

Hereafter the lights in the sky He set

Doing the moon and the sun for night and day,

And other signs and stars in dose correct,

for making years and seasons going away,

For the Most High is much more than perfect

And furthermore of this I cannot say!

About this seventh stanza therefore

I will not tell you nothing anymore!

 

 

“Fly off all birds”- said God- “freely in the air

And splash in to the  sea any kind of fish;

Graze lambs, calves and livestock everywhere

In grassy lawns that will never languish;

Grow up any reptiles fair and unfair,

living beings either monstrous or polish!”

After the earth had all animals found

God said to them to multiply around.

 

 

And finally God said: - “ Let’s make  the man

In our image and likeness, every

And each animal to lead on  command!”

After doing that He rested quietly.

Henceforward, after six days, on the land

men, on the seventh, stay steady Godly,

being it consecrated for prairie and rest,

Both the last hours and also the first!

 

 

But the Creation was not yet complete

Still being missed the breath of the Animator

Who into a giant can transform a bit!

Waters from earth going up by Creator

To mist all over the ground were admit

So could mould the man God the Great Factor

and by that divine blow the man was made

though lonely however, he sadly stayed.

 

 

Insofar a day, as he was sleeping,

took God one rib of his from his right side

And closing up its place with flesh, according

Not to keep him alone, such a grac’ful glide

became a woman, companion cleaving:

On body and soul with man equal inside

and ‘t was a joy! But from that happiness

Adam had soon be wak’n on bitterness!

 

In truth, as I have already said,

it was the snake the cheating actor,

who convinced Eve to be so mad

to eat the fruit that  God The Factor

had forbidden; and she convinced her lad

they would become like a professor

of science and art of evil and good !

That fruit so has to ‘came the damned food!

 

 

Realized since then Adam and Eve to stay

 Shamefully nude, and wearing like a shield

leaves of fig tree they keep on since that day

protecting their nudity in the bloom field!

“Where are you ? Why are you walking away

From me?” asked to Adam God, who’ll wield

Forever human‘s fate. So Eve confirmed

that because of the snake eaten they had!

 

 

In fact the Holy  Lord said to the snake:

“Because of  what you‘ve done,  cursed are you

Above wild animals, and I will make

You eating the dust for all your life through

Upon your belly, unable to shake

Your arts! Your head’ll crash you the woman to

whom  hostile I will make you and her heel

One day you’ll try to injure for such appeal! 

  

He said to the woman: “I'll multiply

your pains during your childbearingness

and forwards your husband I'll modify

 your instinct, but dominion less

 you’ll be over him!” To man God said badly:

you won’t draw any food from soil unless

in the  sweat of your face. That will be a must

‘cause you are dust and you’ll return to dust!

 

 

And since then the path is not allowed

On direction forward the tree of the life,

And God at the end of the garden placed

The flaming Cherub with the big knife

Worried that man would have the fruit tasted

Of life’s tree to become eternal stuff!

That’s why God sent Adam and Eve away

from the Eden as the holy Books say.