Cara speme questo core
Opera details:
Opera title: | Giulio Cesare |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Giulio Cesare Synopsis |
Libretto: | Giulio Cesare Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Sesto |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1.15 |
| Previous scene: | Nel tuo seno amico sasso |
| Next scene: | Tu la mia stella sei |
Cara speme, questo core (Handel) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Singer(s): Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Margherita DurastantiCara speme, questo core from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17)
by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan
Premiere: King’s Theatre, London, 1724
The role of Sesto was originally sung by Margherita Durastanti (active 1700–1734).
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729)
Cara speme, questo core
tu cominci a lusingar.
Par che il ciel presti favore
i miei torti a vendicar.
Dear Hope, You start
To please this Heart.
Heaven seems to
Favour my Revenge.
- TRANSLATION by Martin Friedman
from the liner notes by Andrew Porter:
"Cara speme," one of Handel's moving bass-line-and-voice dialogues, was added to the score as an afterthought (the text appears as an appendix on the last page of the 1724 libretto). The composer may well have felt that he had otherwise held Durastanti too constantly in vengeful vein.
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Art in the video by Jody Craddock:
Watch videos with other singers performing Cara speme questo core:
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Alice Coote
5 - Brian Asawa
2 - Magdalena Kožená
2 - Isabel Leonard
5 - David Daniels
2 - Vivica Genaux
5 - Franco Fagioli
2 - Anna Bonitatibus
2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
5 - Herbert Handt
2 - Margherita Durastanti
1 - Francesca Cuzzoni
2 - Milena Kitic
2 - Ann Murray
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
1 - Francesca Cuzzoni
2 - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
1 - Anastasia Robinson
1 - Francesca Cuzzoni
2 - Margherita Durastanti
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
2 - Margherita Durastanti
Other videos of the same singers performing Cara speme questo core:
2 - Alice Coote
2 - Magdalena Kožená
2 - Isabel Leonard
2 - Vivica Genaux
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Magdalena Kožená
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
1 - Francesca Cuzzoni
2 - Magdalena Kožená
2 - Ann Murray
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
Aria Sesto
Cara speme, questo core
tu cominci a lusingar.
Par che il ciel presti favore
i miei torti a vendicar.
(partono Cornelia, Sesto e Nireno).
English Libretto or Translation:
Sesto Air
Dear hope, this core
you begin to flatter.
For heaven to please
my wrongs to revenge.
(leave Cornelia, Sesto and Nireno).
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External links for Cara speme questo core
| Sheetmusic for aria |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this aria | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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