Paisiello: "Deh, non varcar" from Andromeda

The story of Perseus’ rescue of Andromeda from a sea monster was one of the most popular subjects throughout early opera, with over twenty-five independent librettos on the subject being written before 1800. In Cigna-Santi’s version, Andromeda (sung here by Soprano Samantha Clarke) is in love with Perseus but is obliged to marry Euristeo, the heir to the King of Argos. When Euristeo tells Andromeda, in the last of the opera’s three acts, that he has seen Perseus wandering about dementedly with an unsheathed sword, she assumes that her beloved has killed himself. She turns her fury on Euristeo for not having prevented the supposed suicide, before subsiding into forlorn resignation as she envisages following Perseus on his journey to Hades.
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