Opera title: | Giulio Cesare |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Giulio Cesare Synopsis |
Libretto: | Giulio Cesare Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Giulio Cesare |
Voice(s): | Contralto or Mezzo-Soprano or CounterTenor |
Act: | 3.07b |
Previous scene: | Forzai l'ingresso a tua salvezza |
Next scene: | Tutto lice sperar |
'Quel torrente, che cade dal monte'
Aria for alto castrato, violins in unison and basso continuo
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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Delphine Galou, contralto
Les Siècles,
conducted by François-Xavier Roth
Recorded in Summer 2008?
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Italian text:
CESARE
Quel torrente, che cade dal monte,
tutto atterra ch'incontro lo sta.
Tale anch'io a chi oppone la fronte,
dal mio brando atterato sarà.
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English translation (by James O. Wooton):
CÆSAR
This torrent that falls from the mountain
sweeps away everything that stands in its way.
I shall be the same, and whoever opposes me
will be smitten down by my sword.
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From the TV program 'Presto !' (France 2), presented by Pierre Charvet. Only part of the A section and the end of the da capo are performed here, some passages being covered by the commentary.
Marc D.
Aria Cesare
Quel torrente, che cade dal monte, tutto atterra ch'incontro lo sta.
Tale anch'io, a chi oppone la fonte, dal mio brando atterrato sarà. (parte)
Aria Cesare
That torrent, which falls from the mountain, all lands where it meets him.
This too, to those who oppose the source, from my brando landed will be. (part)
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