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Ei tornera

Opera details:

Opera title:

Norma

Composer:

Vincenzo Bellini

Language:

Italian

Synopsis:

Norma Synopsis

Libretto:

Norma Libretto

Translation(s):

English Deutsch

Recitative details:

Type:

recitative

Role(s):

Norma / Clotilde

Voice(s):

Soprano / Soprano

Act:

2.09

Previous scene: Ah! del Tebro al giogo indegno
Next scene: Squilla il bronzo del Dio

Norma: Act II Scene 6: Ei tornera (Norma, Clotilde)

Singer(s): Lella Cuberli Grace Bumbry

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Norma: Act II Scene 6: Ei tornera (Norma, Clotilde) · Grace Bumbry

Bellini: Norma (1831 Edition for 2 Sopranos)

℗ 2000 Dynamic

Released on: 2000-01-01

Artist: Grace Bumbry
Artist: Lella Cuberli
Artist: Giuseppe Giacomini
Artist: Robert Lloyd
Artist: Eugenia Cardano
Artist: Paolo Todisco
Choir: Amici della Polifonia e Voci Per La Musica Chorus
Conductor: Michael Halasz
Orchestra: Bari Symphony Orchestra
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:


SCENA VI
Tempio d'Irminsul. Da un lato, l'ara dei Druidi.

NORMA
Ei tornerà.
Sì. Mia fidanza è posta in Adalgisa.
Ei tornerà pentito,
Supplichevole, amante.
Oh! A tal pensiero
Sparisce il nuvol nero
Che mi premea la fronte,
E il sol m'arride
Come del primo amore ai dì,
Ai dì felici.

Entra Clotilde

Clotilde!

CLOTILDE
O Norma! Uopo è d'ardir.

NORMA
Che dici?

CLOTILDE
Lassa!

NORMA
Favella. Favella.

CLOTILDE
Indarno parlò Adalgisa, e pianse.

NORMA
Ed io fidarmi di lei dovea?
Di mano uscirmi,
E bella del suo dolore,
Presentarsi all'empio ella tramava.

CLOTILDE
Ella ritorna al tempio.
Triste, dolente,
Implora di profferir suoi voti.

NORMA
Ed egli?

CLOTILDE
Ed egli rapirla giura
Anco all'altar del Nume.

NORMA
Troppo il fellon presume.
Lo previen mia vendetta,
E qui di sangue, sangue roman,
Scorreran torrenti.

Norma corre all'altare e batte tre volte lo scudo d'Irminsul.

English Libretto or Translation:


SCENE VI

NORMA
He will return. Yes, I have faith
In Adalgisa. He will return, repentant,
Suppliant, my lover again. This thought
Cleaves the black cloud
Which weighted upon me, and the sun
Breaks through, bright as on the first day of love.
Clotilde!

CLOTILDE
O Norma! Be brave!

NORMA
What are you saying?

CLOTILDE
Alas!

NORMA
Speak!

CLOTILDE
It was in vain
That Agalgisa spoke to him and wept.

NORMA
Why did I trust her?
She left me and, made lovelier by her grief,
She went to him.
She betrayed me!

CLOTILDE
She is coming to the temple.
Sad and anguished, she begs
To offer up her vows.

NORMA
And he?

CLOTILDE
And he
Has sworn to carry her off,
Even from the altar of God,

NORMA
The traitor would go too far.
But my vengeance will strike first ?
And blood ? Roman blood ? shall flow like water!

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