Ed ancor la tremenda porta

Opera details:

Opera title:	Roberto Devereux
Composer:	Gaetano Donizetti
Language:	Italian
Synopsis:	Roberto Devereux Synopsis
Libretto:	Roberto Devereux Libretto
Translation(s):	English Deutsch

Aria details:

Type:	aria
Role(s):	Roberto Devereux
Voice(s):	Tenor
Act:	3.04-1

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Next scene:	A te diro negli ultimi

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:

SCENA QUARTA
Orrido carcere nella torre di Londra, destinata per ultima dimora ai colpevoli condannati alla morte.
Roberto solo.

Scena ed Aria

ROBERTO
Ed ancor la tremenda
Porta non si dischiude? …
Un rio presagio
Tutte m'ingombra di terror le vene!
Pur fido messo,
E quella gemma è pegno
Securo a me di scampo.
Uso a mirarla in campo,
Io non temo la morte;
Io viver solo tanto desio,
Che la virtù di Sara
A discolpar mi basti …
O tu, che m'involasti
Quell'adorata donna, i giorni miei
Serbo al tuo brando, tu svenar mi dei.
A ti dirò, fra gli ultimi singhiozzi,
In braccio a morte:
Come uno spirto angelico
Pura è la tua consorte …
Sì! Lo giuro, e il giuramento
Col sangue mio suggello …
Credi all'estremo accento
Che il labbro mio parlò.
Chi scende nell'avello
Sai che mentir non può.
odesi calpestio e sordo rumore di chiavistelli
Odo un suon per l'aria cieca …
Si dischiudono le porte …
Ah! la grazia mi si reca …

English Libretto or Translation:

FOURTH SCENE
A horrible prison in the Tower of London, destined as a last resort to the guilty condemned to death.
Roberto alone.

Scene and Air

ROBERTO
And still the tremendous
Door does not open? ...
A foreboding
The veins are cluttering me with terror!
Even though I put it,
And that gem is a pledge
Safe to escape.
Use to aim it in the field,
I do not fear death;
I live only so much desio,
May the virtue of Sara
Suffice me ...
Or you, who bothered me
That lovely woman, my days
Serbian to your brando, you faint me gods.
I'll tell you, among the last sobs,
On death row:
Like an angelic spirit
Pura is your spouse ...
Yup! I swear it, and the oath
With my blood seal ...
Believe in the extreme accent
That my lips spoke.
Who comes down in the armor
You know that lying can not.
I hate trampling and deaf noise of bolts
I hear a sound in the blind air ...
The doors are opened ...
Ah! grace came to me ...

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