Opera title: | Norma |
Composer: | Vincenzo Bellini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Norma Synopsis |
Libretto: | Norma Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Pollione |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 1.04 |
Previous scene: | Svanir le voci |
Next scene: | Odi i suoi ritia compiere |
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Norma: Act I: Meco all'altar di Venere (Pollione, Flavio, Chorus) · Mario Del Monaco
Bellini: Norma (1955)
℗ 2015 MYTO Historical
Released on: 2015-02-01
Artist: Mario Del Monaco
Artist: Nicola Zaccaria
Artist: Maria Callas
Artist: Giulietta Simionato
Artist: Gabriella Carturan
Artist: Giuseppe Zampieri
Choir: Milan La Scala Chorus
Conductor: Antonino Votto
Orchestra: Milan La Scala Orchestra
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
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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!
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!
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