Opera title: | Alcina |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Alcina Synopsis |
Libretto: | Alcina Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Alcina |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1.24 |
| Previous scene: | A quai strani perigli |
| Next scene: | Col celarvi a chi v'ama |
L’histoire de l’opéra n’a cessé d’être hantée par des femmes ensorcelant les hommes. Alcina ne fait pas exception : elle séduit ses victimes jusqu’à leur faire oublier leur propre patrie. Danger de l’amour déréglé ou délices de l’abandon de soi ? Par-delà le merveilleux, le génie de Haendel s’attache à peindre en Alcina une femme blessée, profondément humaine et pathétique : le chant de la magicienne déchue nous inspire une étrange compassion. De cette ambiguïté, du clair‑obscur des sentiments et des travestissements du désir, la mise en scène de Robert Carsen, qui fit entrer l’oeuvre au répertoire de l’Opéra de Paris, sait jouer avec finesse.
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The history of opera has never ceased to be haunted by temptresses bewitching men. Alcina is no exception: she seduces her victims to the point where they forget their own homeland. Is it a risk of perverted love or the delights of unbridled passion? Beyond the supernatural, Handel’s stroke of genius was to portray Alcina as a woman who suffers: profoundly human and touching. The song of the vanquished sorceress awakens a strange compassion within us. Robert Carsen, whose production brought the work into the Paris Opera’s repertoire, plays with immensesubtlety on this ambiguity and the chiaroscuro subtlety on this ambiguity and the chiaroscuro of emotions and hidden desires.
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ALCINA
Tiranna gelosia dell'amato Ruggier
tormenta il core,
e pur solo per lui mi strugge amore.
Tornami a vagheggiar,
te solo vuoi amar
quest'anima fedel,
caro mio bene.
Già ti donai il mio cor;
fido sarà il mio amor;
mai ti sarò crudel,
cara mia speme.
ALCINA
Tyranny jealousy of the beloved Ruggier
torments the core,
and only for him is love for me.
Return me to vague,
you only want to love
this faithful soul,
my dear good.
I already gave you my heart;
I will trust my love;
I will never be cruel to you,
my dear spury.


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