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 |
Lisa Algozzini - Ah! Ruggiero crudel...Ombre pallide - Alcina - Handel
Singer(s): Renata Scotto Dolora Zajick
Lisa Algozzini is a young soprano who has already been recognized by the top opera professionals for having a powerful stage presence and a voice that possesses a colorful, rich, Italianate quality. Most recently she sang SUSANNA in 'Le nozze di Figaro' at the Trentino Music Festival in Italy and at the Manhattan Opera in New York, LAURETTA in 'Gianni Schicchi' at the State Opera Plovdiv and the State Opera Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, ZERLINA in 'Don Giovanni' in New York, MICAELA in 'Carmen' at Festival Santa Florentina in Spain, Mahler's 'Symphony No. 4' in Vienna and has made her Carnegie Hall Debut as the 2nd Place Winner in the Nico Castel International Master Singer Competition.
She is an alumna of many elite musical institutions including The Juilliard School, Aspen Music Festival, Renata Scotto Opera Academy in New York, Dolora Zajick Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, Nico Castel's New York Opera Studio and l’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy again studying with her mentor the legendary soprano Renata Scotto.
Ms. Algozzini was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and holds both American and Italian citizenship. She currently resides in Vienna, Austria.
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2 - Mimi Lerner
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1 - Renata Scotto
2 - Dolora Zajick
1 - Lauren Fagan
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Arleen Auger
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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
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Karina Gauvin
1 - Joan Sutherland
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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