Meco all'altar di venere
Opera details:
Opera title: | Norma |
Composer: | Vincenzo Bellini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Norma Synopsis |
Libretto: | Norma Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Pollione |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 1.04 |
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The Great Mario Filippeschi Sings "Meco all'altar di Venere, From Bellini's Norma 1954
Singer: Mario FilippeschiMario Filippeschi (1907-1979) was one of Italy's most respected and popular tenors. He did not sing outside the Latin countries (Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Latin America) and for that reason is not as well known in America as in Italy. However, in Italy his fame was—and continues to be—very pronounced. He sang both the dramatic and bel canto repertoire. His voice was powerful and dramatic, but with an uncommonly extensive upper register, which made it possible for him to sing all the big arias—even in the bel canto repertoire—in the original key, not something every tenor of his generation could to.
Watch videos with other singers performing Meco all'altar di venere:
1 - Maria Callas
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Salvatore Fisichella
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Plácido Domingo
5 - Russell Thomas
5 - Gregory Kunde
5 - Teodor Ilincăi
5 - Fabio Armiliato
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Brandon Jovanovich
5 - Gianni Raimondi
5 - Charles Craig
5 - Carlo Cossutta
1 - Elena Moșuc
5 - Robert Wilson
5 - José Cura
5 - Riccardo Massi
5 - Zoran Todorovich
5 - Ștefan Pop
1 - June Anderson
2 - Laura Polverelli
1 - June Anderson
2 - Laura Polverelli
5 - Brandon Jovanovich
1 - June Anderson
5 - Gregory Kunde
5 - Giuseppe Giacomini
5 - John Osborn
5 - Franco Bonisolli
5 - John Alexander
5 - Giovanni Martinelli
5 - Lando Bartolini
6 - James Morris
5 - Gino Penno
5 - Arnold Rutkowski
6 - Enrico Delle Sedie
5 - Bruno Prevedi
5 - Enrico Di Giuseppe
5 - Francesco Merli
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Maria Callas
2 - Ebe Stignani
5 - Mirto Picchi
5 - Luciano Pavarotti
5 - Kurt Baum
5 - Carlo Bergonzi
5 - Giovanni Breviario
5 - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
5 - Jon Vickers
5 - Pier Miranda Ferraro
5 - Vincenzo La Scola
5 - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Piero de Palma
5 - Charles Craig
5 - Plácido Domingo
5 - Carlo Bergonzi
5 - Carlo Bergonzi
1 - Daniela Dessì
5 - Fabio Armiliato
7 - Giacomo Prestia
5 - Beniamino Gigli
5 - Francesco Merli
5 - John Alexander
6 - Donald Gramm
5 - Charles Anthony
5 - Plácido Domingo
Other videos of the same singers performing Meco all'altar di venere:
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Gregory Kunde
5 - Plácido Domingo
1 - Maria Callas
5 - Fabio Armiliato
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Franco Corelli
1 - Elena Moșuc
5 - Robert Wilson
5 - Brandon Jovanovich
5 - Mario Del Monaco
1 - Elena Moșuc
5 - Robert Wilson
1 - June Anderson
2 - Laura Polverelli
5 - José Cura
5 - Teodor Ilincăi
5 - Salvatore Fisichella
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Ștefan Pop
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Zoran Todorovich
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Giovanni Martinelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - John Osborn
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Franco Corelli
1 - Elena Moșuc
5 - Robert Wilson
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Del Monaco
1 - Elena Moșuc
5 - Robert Wilson
5 - John Alexander
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - John Alexander
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Gregory Kunde
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - John Alexander
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Francesco Merli
5 - Mirto Picchi
5 - Kurt Baum
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Plácido Domingo
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Giuseppe Giacomini
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - John Alexander
5 - Mirto Picchi
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Giovanni Breviario
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Gino Penno
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Giuseppe Giacomini
5 - Gino Penno
5 - Mario Filippeschi
5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Plácido Domingo
5 - Kurt Baum
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Mario Del Monaco
1 - June Anderson
2 - Laura Polverelli
5 - Carlo Bergonzi
5 - Carlo Bergonzi
1 - Maria Callas
5 - Mirto Picchi
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Piero de Palma
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Piero de Palma
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Piero de Palma
5 - Franco Corelli
5 - Piero de Palma
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
POLLIONE
In rammentarlo io tremo.
Meco all'altar di Venere
Era Adalgisa in Roma,
Cinta di bende candide,
Sparsa di fior la chioma;
Udia d'Imene i cantici,
Vedea fumar gl'incensi,
Eran rapiti i sensi
Di voluttade e amore.
Quando fra noi terribile
Viene a locarsi un'ombra
L'ampio mantel druidico
Come un vapor l'ingombra;
Cade sull'ara il folgore,
D'un vel si copre il giorno,
Muto si spande intorno
Un sepolcrale orror.
Più l'adorata vergine
Io non mi trovo accanto;
N'odo da lunge un gemito
Misto de' figli al pianto …
Ed una voce orribile
Echeggia in fondo al tempio
Norma così fa scempio
D'amante traditor!
English Libretto or Translation:
POLLIONE
Even recalling it, I tremble!
Adalgisa was with me, in Rome,
At the altar of Venus,
Dressed in pure white
With flowers in her hair.
As she heard the hymns of Hymen
And breathed the holy incense,
Her senses were enraptured
With the joy of love...
Suddenly between us there descended
A horrible shadow,
And the great Druidic mantle
Enfolded her like smoke.
Lightning flashed on the altar,
And the day was veiled in darkness.
Silently, all around,
Rose a tomb?like horror.
The beloved maiden
as no longer at my side.
From afar I heard a sob,
Mingled with the weeping of my children.
Then a monstrous voice
Echoed through the temple, saying:
This is the vengeance of Norma
Upon her faithless lover!
External links for Meco all'altar di venere
| Sheetmusic for aria |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this aria | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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