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Quel torrente che cade dal monte

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):

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

Händel: Quel torrente (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) - Galou (Roth)

Singer: Delphine Galou

'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.

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:

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)

English Libretto or Translation:

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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