Opera title: | Giulio Cesare |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Giulio Cesare Synopsis |
Libretto: | Giulio Cesare Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Cleopatra |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 3.04b |
Previous scene: | E pur cosi in un giorno |
Next scene: | Dall'ondoso periglio |
'Piangerò la sorte mia' (Cleopatra)
Aria from the opera 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto', HWV 17
Libretto: Nicola Francesco Haym, after Giacomo Francesco Bussani's 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' (music by Antonio Sartorio, 1676)
Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
First performance: 20 February 1724, in London (King's Theatre, Haymarket)
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Cleopatra: Patricia Petibon, soprano
Venice Baroque Orchestra,
conducted by Andrea Marcon
Recorded in September 2009
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CLEOPATRA
Piangerò la sorte mia,
sì crudele e tanto ria,
finché vita in petto avrò.
Ma poi morta, d'ogn'intorno
il tiranno e notte e giorno
fatta spettro agiterò.
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Translation (by Lionel Salter):
CLEOPATRA
I will lament my lot,
so harsh and so cruel,
as long as I have breath in my body.
But when I am dead my ghost
will haunt the tyrant on all sides
by night and day.
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Marc D.
Aria Cleopatra
Piangerò la sorte mia,
sì crudele e tanto ria, finché vita in petto avrò. Ma poi morta d'ogn'intorno il tiranno e notte e giorno fatta spettro agiterò.
Cleopatra air
I will cry my destiny,
so cruel and so much, as long as I live in my chest. But then the tyrant is dead all around, and night and day in the ghost, I will stir.
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