Piangete voi?
Opera details:
Opera title: | Anna Bolena |
Composer: | Gaetano Donizetti |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Anna Bolena Synopsis |
Libretto: | Anna Bolena Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Anna Bolena |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 2.17 |
| Previous scene: | Chi puo vederia a ciglio |
| Next scene: | Al dolce guidami |
Renata Scotto: Donizetti - Anna Bolena, 'Piangete voi... Al dolce guidami'
Singer: Renata ScottoRenata Scotto (born 24 February 1934) is an Italian soprano and opera director. Recognized for her sense of style, musicality and as a remarkable singer-actress, Scotto is considered one of the preeminent singers of her generation, specializing in the bel canto repertoire with excursions into the verismo and Verdi repertoires. Since retiring from the stage as a singer in 2002, she has turned successfully into directing opera as well as teaching in Italy and America, along with academic posts at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Juilliard School in New York...
Lyrics & English Translation
ANNA
Are you weeping?
What causes such tears?
This is my wedding day.
The King awaits me...
the candles on the altar, are lit,
it is decorated with flowers.
Give me quickly my
white robe; adorn my hair
with my crown or roses.
That Percy know nothing about it,
the King has ordered it so.
CORO
Oh tragic memory!
ANNA
Oh..who is grieving?
Who spoke of Percy?
Let me not see him;
let me hide myself from his
gaze. It is useless... He comes...
he accuses me... he scolds me...
ah! he scolds me, accuses me.
Ah!
Ah! forgive me, forgive me...
I am unhappy.
Take me away from
this utter misery
Are you smiling?
Oh joy!
Do not let me die abandoned here, no.
You are smiling? Percy?
Oh joy!
Lead me to the dear castle
where I was born,
to the green plane trees,
to that brook that still
murmurs to our sighs...
Ah!
there I forget Past griefs;
give me back one day of my youth,
give me back one day of our love.
Lead me to the dear castle
where I was born;
give me back one day
of our love..
just one single day of our love.
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I send my kind and warm regards,
Watch videos with other singers performing Piangete voi?:
1 - Mariella Devia
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Virginia Zeani
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - June Anderson
1 - Cecilia Gasdia
1 - Darina Takova
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Eglise Gutiérrez
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Carol Vaness
1 - Carmela Remigio
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Maria Dragoni
2 - Sonia Ganassi
1 - Elena Souliotis
1 - Mariana Nicolesco
1 - Pauline Tinsley
3 - Sara Mingardo
3 - Monica Sinclair
1 - Sara Scuderi
1 - Adelaida Negri
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Giuditta Pasta
1 - Beverly Sills
2 - Giulietta Simionato
1 - Amarilli Nizza
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Renata Tebaldi
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Leyla Gencer
2 - Giulietta Simionato
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
2 - Franca Mattiucci
1 - Elena Souliotis
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Giuditta Pasta
1 - Maria Dragoni
2 - Maria Malibran
1 - Maria Callas
3 - Monica Sinclair
1 - Mara Zampieri
2 - Fiorenza Cossotto
1 - Montserrat Caballé
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
2 - Doris Soffel
3 - Sara Mingardo
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Giuditta Pasta
1 - Leyla Gencer
2 - Patricia Johnson
1 - Nelly Miricioiu
2 - Judith Forst
2 - Suzanna Guzmán
1 - Cynthia Makris
2 - Lilli Paasikivi
2 - Ruxandra Donose
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
2 - Stefania Toczyska
1 - Pauline Tinsley
2 - Joy Davidson
2 - Sonia Ganassi
3 - Sonia Prina
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Elena Souliotis
Other videos of the same singers performing Piangete voi?:
1 - Mariella Devia
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Mariella Devia
1 - Carol Vaness
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Mariella Devia
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Mariella Devia
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Virginia Zeani
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
1 - Mariella Devia
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
2 - Sonia Ganassi
1 - Mariella Devia
3 - Monica Sinclair
1 - Virginia Zeani
2 - Sonia Ganassi
3 - Sonia Prina
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
SCENA DODICESIMAAnna dalla sua prigione. Si presenta in abito negletto, e col capo scoperto; si
avanza lentamente, assorta in profondi pensieri. Silenzio universale.
Le Damigelle la circondano vivamente commosse.
Ella le osserva attentamente; sembra rasserenarsi.
Scena ed Aria Finale
ANNA
Piangete voi? donde tal pianto? … È questo
Giorno di nozze. Il Re mi aspetta … è acceso,
Infiorato l'altar. - Datemi tosto
Il mio candido ammanto; il crin m'ornate
Del mio serto di rose …
Che Percy non lo sappia - il Re l'impose.
CORO
Oh! memoria funesta!
ANNA
Oh! chi si duole?
Chi parlò di Percy? … Ch'io non lo vegga;
Ch'io m'asconda a' suoi sguardi. - È vano - Ei viene …
Ei m'accusa … ei mi sgrida. Oh! mi perdona …
Infelice son io. Toglimi a questa
Miseria estrema … Tu sorridi? … oh gioia! …
Non fia, non fia che qui deserta io moia!
Al dolce guidami
Castel natìo,
Ai verdi platani,
Al queto rio
Che i nostri mormora
Sospiri ancor.
Colà, dimentico
De' corsi affanni.
Un giorno rendimi
De' miei prim' anni.
Un giorno solo
Del nostro amor.
CORO
Chi può vederla a ciglio asciutto,
In tanto affanno, in tanto lutto,
E non sentirsi spezzare il cor?
English Libretto or Translation:
Scene 6Anna comes from her prison. She appears in disordered dress, her head uncovered and moves forward slowly, sunk in deep thought. A universal silence. Servants surround her, strongly moved. She observes them attentively and seems to calm herself.
ANNA:
Are you weeping? whence such tears?
This is a wedding day. The King awaits me…the altar is lit up
and bedecked with flowers. Quickly, give me
my white cloak; decorate my hair
with my crown of roses…
Don't let Percy know of it…
The King demands it.
CHORUS:
Oh! What sad memories!
ANNA:
Oh! Who is mourning?
CHORUS:
Oh! What sad memories!
ANNA:
Oh! who is mourning?
Who spoke of Percy?…Don't let me see him.
Let me hide from his gaze. It is no use. He is coming…
He accuses me…he decries me. Oh! forgive me…
I am unhappy. Take me from this extreme misery.
Are you smiling? Oh joy! Don't let me die,
don't let me die alone.
Guide me to the sweet mansion of my birth,
to the green plane-trees
to the quiet river,
that still murmers
with our sighs.
There, I forget
the streams of anguish,
give me back one day
of my early years,
just one day
of our love.
CHORUS:
Who can see her dry eyed
in such anguish, in such mourning
and not feel their heart break?
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