Opera title: | Norma |
Composer: | Vincenzo Bellini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Norma Synopsis |
Libretto: | Norma Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Norma |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1.09 |
Previous scene: | Annuncio sospensione recita e |
Next scene: | Fine al rito |
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This video features Montserrat Caballé singing Casta Diva from Bellini´s opera Norma during a televised concert held at Kings Dock in 1992 on the occasion of the visit to Liverpool of the Tall Ships. The Tall Ships Race and the concert also commemorated the 500th anniversary of the arrival in the New World of Christopher Columbus.
The concert was performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Robin Stapleton and Julian Reynolds - and featured Montserrat Caballé, Julia Migenes, Mario Frangoulis, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Justino Diaz, Alfredo Krauss, Dennis O´Neil, Rita Hunter and Paco Peña. It was attended by the King and Queen of Spain
Concierto 500a Aniversario Cristobal Colon; Liverpool 1992 en la presencia de su majestad el Rey Juan Carlos de España, la Reina Sofia y el Principe Andrew de Inglaterra.
NORMA
Casta Diva, che inargenti
Queste sacre antiche piante,
Al noi volgi il bel sembiante,
Senza nube e senza vel!
NORMA E CORO
Casta Diva, che inargenti
Queste sacre antiche piante,
Al noi volgi il bel sembiante,
Senza nube e senza vel!
NORMA
Tempra, o Diva,
Tempra tu de' cori ardenti,
Tempra ancora lo zelo audace.
Spargi in terra quella pace
Che regnar tu fai nel ciel.
COR
Diva, spargi in terra quella pace
Che regnar tu fai nel ciel.
NORMA
Fine al rito.
E il sacro bosco
Sia disgombro dai profani.
Quando il Nume irato e fosco
Chiegga il sangue dei Romani,
Dal druidico delubro
La mia voce tuonerà.
CORO
Tuoni, E un sol del popolo empio
Non isfugga al giusto scempio;
E primier da noi percosso
Il Proconsole cadrà.
NORMA
Cadrà!
Punirlo io posso.
(Ma punirlo il cor non sa.)
(Ah! bello a me ritorna
Del fido amor primiero,
E contro il mondo intiero
Difesa a te sarò.
Ah! bello a me ritorna
Del raggio tuo sereno
E vita nel tuo seno
E patria e cielo avrò.)
CORO
Sei lento, sì, sei lento,
O giorno di vendetta,
Ma irato il Dio t'affretta
Che il Tebro condannò!
NORMA
(Ah! riedi ancora qual eri allora,
Quando il cor ti diedi allora,
Qual eri allor, ah, riedi a me!)
OROVESO E CORO
O giorno! O giorno, il Dio t'affretta
Che il Tebro condannò!
NORMA
Chaste goddess, who dost bathe in silver light
These ancient, hallowed trees,
Turn thy fair face upon us,
Unveiled and unclouded...
NORMA and PRIESTESSES
Chaste goddess, who dost bathe in silver light
These ancient, hallowed trees,
Turn thy fair face upon us,
Unveiled and unclouded...
NORMA
Temper thou the burning hearts,
The excessive zeal of thy people.
Enfold the earth in that sweet peace
Which, through Thee, reigns in heaven....
CHORUS
Enfold the earth in that sweet peace
Which, through Thee, reigns in heaven....
NORMA
The holy rites are ended.
From the sacred wood
Let every unbeliever go.
When God, in his dark anger,
Shall demand the Romans' blood,
Then from the Druid temple
My voice will thunder forth.
ALL
Let it thunder, and not one of the cursed race
Shall escape the holy slaughter.
And first to fall before our wrath
Shall be the Proconsul of Rome.
NORMA
Yes, he shall fall.
I can punish him -
(But my heart can never do it.)
(Ah! bring back to me
The beauty of our first love.
Then, against the world itself
I shall be your defense.
Ah! Bring back to me
The peace and warmth of love,
And in that love I shall find again
Life, fatherland and heaven itself!)
CHORUS
But a wrathful god is hastening
To condemn the power of Rome.
NORMA
(Ah, be once more as you were
When first I gave my heart to you!)
CHORUS
But the wrathfuI day is near,
Which will condemn the power of Rome.
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