Love in her eyes sits playing
Opera details:
Opera title: | Acis and Galatea |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | Acis and Galatea Synopsis |
Libretto: | Acis and Galatea Libretto |
Translation(s): | Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Acis |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 1 |
| Previous scene: | Where shall I seek the charming fair? |
| Next scene: | Love sounds th'alarm |
Handel - Love in her eyes sits playing from 'Acis and Galatea' (Anthony Rolfe Johnson)
Singer: Anthony Rolfe JohnsonHandel - Love in her eyes sits playing from 'Acis and Galatea'
Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Acis, tenor
with English Baroque Soloists
conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
John Gay (1685-1732)
Love in her eyes sits playing,
And sheds delicious death;
Love on her lips is straying,
And warbling in her breath!
Love on her breast sits panting
And swells with soft desire;
No grace, no charm is wanting,
To set the heart on fire.
Watch videos with other singers performing Love in her eyes sits playing:
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
5 - Paul Agnew
5 - Peter Pears
5 - Christoph Genz
5 - Walter Widdop
5 - Nicolai Gedda
5 - Ian Bostridge
5 - Heddle Nash
5 - Allan Clayton
5 - Aaron Sheehan
5 - David Gordon
5 - David Hobson
5 - Robert Tear
5 - Frank Titterton
5 - Heddle Nash
5 - Walter Widdop
6 - Friedrich Schorr
5 - Walter Widdop
6 - Dinh Gilly
Other videos of the same singers performing Love in her eyes sits playing:
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
5 - Peter Pears
5 - Paul Agnew
5 - Paul Agnew
5 - Walter Widdop
5 - Walter Widdop
5 - Paul Agnew
5 - Heddle Nash
5 - Christoph Genz
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
5 - Peter Pears
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
5 - Heddle Nash
5 - Peter Pears
5 - David Hobson
5 - Peter Pears
5 - Peter Pears
English Libretto or Translation:
Not entered separately yet.Full English translation Acis and Galatea
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