Ah! Ruggiero crudel
Opera details:
Opera title: | Alcina |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Alcina Synopsis |
Libretto: | Alcina Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Recitative details:
Type: | recitative |
Role(s): | Alcina |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 2.20a |
| Previous scene: | Verdi prati |
| Next scene: | Del pallido Acheronte |
Ah! Ruggiero crudel/Ombre pallide - Anja Harteros LIVE - Alcina - Handel
Singer(s): Patricia Petibon Anja HarterosLive from Milan, 15th of March 2009
Conductor: Giovanni Antonini
Staging: Robert Carsen
Alcina: Anja Harteros
Ruggiero: Monica Bacelli
Morgana: Patricia Petibon
Bradamante: Kristina Hammarström
Oronte: Jeremy Ovenden
Melisso: Alastair Miles
no Oberto this time
Recitativo&Aria ALCINA
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Ah! Ruggiero crudel, tu non mi amasti!
Ah! che fingesti ancor, e mingannasti!
E pur ti adora ancor fido mio core.
Ah! Ruggiero crudel! ah, traditore!
Del pallido Acheronte
spiriti abitatori, e della notte
ministri di vendetta,
cieche figlie crudeli, a me venite!
Secondate i miei voti,
perché Ruggiero amato
non fugga da me ingrato.
(guarda dintorno, e sospesa)
Ma ohimè! misera! e quale
insolita tardanza?
eh! non mudite?
Ombre pallide, lo so, mi udite;
dintorno errate, e vi celate,
sorde da me: perchè? perchè?
Fugge il mio bene; voi lo fermate
deh! per pietate,
se in questa verga, chora disprezzo,
e voglio frangere, forza non è.
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Ah, cruel Ruggiero! You have never loved me!
You feigned love and deceived me!
And yet my faithful heart still adores you.
Ah, cruel Ruggiero, you are a traitor!
Come, you spirits of the wan shores of Acheron,
and you, cruel, blind, daughters of the night,
ministers of vengeance,
come to me!
Help me to achieve my desire,
that my beloved Ruggiero
will not fly from me and forswear me.
But alas! I am wretched! What is
this unwonted delay?
Ah, do you not hear me?
I seek you, and you hide yourselves?
I command you, and you are silent?
Have I been deceived? Have I been tricked?
Has my fateful wand lost its power?
Vanquished, deluded Alcina, what is now left for you?
You pale shadows, I know you hear me;
you hover around me and conceal yourselves,
and are deaf to my words. Why? Why?
My lover flees from me; stop hiim,
for pity's sake,
if this wand, which now I despise
and would break, has lost its power.
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2 - Dolora Zajick
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2 - Joyce DiDonato
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1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Karina Gauvin
2 - Joyce DiDonato
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1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Anja Harteros
1 - Renée Fleming
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1 - Karina Gauvin
1 - Joan Sutherland
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2 - Joyce DiDonato
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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
ALCINA
Ah! Ruggiero crudel, tu no mi amasti!
Ah! che fingesti ancor, e m'ingannasti!
E pur ti adora ancor fido mio core.
Ah! Ruggiero crudel! ah, traditore!
Del pallido Acheronte spiriti abitatori,
e della notte ministri di vendetta,
cieche figlie crudeli, a me venite!
Secondate i miei voti,
perché Ruggiero amato
non fugga da me ingrato.
Guarda d'intorno, sospesa.
Ma ohimé! misera!
e quale insolita tardanza?
eh! non m'udite?
Vi cerco, e vi ascondete?
Vi comando, e tacete?
Evvi inganno? evvi frode?
La mia verga fatal non ha possanza?
Vinta, delusa Alcina, e che ti avanza?
Ombre pallide, lo so, mi udite;
d'intorno errate,
e vi celate,
sorde da me:
perché? perché?
Fugge il mio bene;
voi lo fermate
deh! per pietate,
se in questa verga,
ch'ora disprezzo,
e voglio frangere,
forza non è.
English Libretto or Translation:
ALCINA
Ah! Ruggiero crudel, you did not love me!
Ah! that you pretended still, and I deceived you!
And yet you still adore my heart.
Ah! Ruggiero crudel! ah, traitor!
Of pale Acheron inhabitant spirits,
and of the night ministers of revenge,
blind cruel daughters, come to me!
Second my votes,
because Ruggiero loved
do not run away from me ungrateful.
Look around, suspended.
But oh! poor!
and what unusual delay?
eh! do not you hear me?
I look for you, and do you listen?
I command you, and do not you?
Evoke deception? evvi fraud?
Does my fatal rod have no power?
Won, disappointed Alcina, and who advances you?
Pale shadows, I know, you hear me;
around wrong,
and you hide,
deaf from me:
why? why?
My good escapes;
you stop him
deh! for pity,
if in this rod,
that scorn,
and I want to break up,
force is not.
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