Son nata a lagrimar
Opera details:
Opera title: | Giulio Cesare |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Giulio Cesare Synopsis |
Libretto: | Giulio Cesare Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Cornelia / Sesto |
Voice(s): | Contralto / Soprano |
Act: | 1.20 |
| Previous scene: | Tu sei il cor di questo core |
| Next scene: | Eseguisti o Nireno |
Sarah Connolly & Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Sesto & Cornelia in "Giulio Cesare in Egitto"
Singer(s): Sarah Connolly Marie-Nicole Lemieux Danielle de NieseBefore Sarah Connolly became Cesare in the marvellous Glyndebourne "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" in 2005, she sang the role of Sesto. Heard here with Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Cornelia, in a live recording from Musikfest Bremen (2002). Marc Minkowski conducted Les Musiciens du Louvre. They sing the Act I closing duet "Son nata a lagrimar - Son nato a sospirar".
The complete cast was
Cesare - Marijana Mijanovic
Cleopatra - Danielle de Niese
Sesto - Sarah Connolly
Cornelia - Marie Nicole Lemieux
Tolomeo - Flavio Oliver
Achilla - Franck Leguerinel
Nireno - Dominique Visse
Curio - Kevin Greenlaw
Many thanks to Gudrun74 for making this available.
Watch videos with other singers performing Son nata a lagrimar:
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
3 - Marie-Nicole Lemieux
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Brian Asawa
5 - Robert Crowe
2 - Jamie Barton
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Ann Hallenberg
2 - Malena Ernman
2 - Alice Coote
3 - Sonia Prina
2 - Tuva Semmingsen
3 - Randi Stene
2 - Julia Hamari
5 - Peter Schreier
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
1 - Maite Beaumont
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Patricia Payne
2 - Raquel Pierotti
1 - Daniela Dessì
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Ann Hallenberg
2 - Vivica Genaux
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Charlotte Hellekant
2 -
2 - Bernarda Fink
1 - Danielle de Niese
2 - Sarah Connolly
3 - Marie-Nicole Lemieux
2 - Isabel Leonard
3 - Sara Mingardo
2 - Stephanie Blythe
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
3 - Marie-Nicole Lemieux
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Anna Bonitatibus
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Charlotte Hellekant
2 - Jennifer Rivera
2 - Wallis Giunta
1 - María Ros
2 - Fedora Barbieri
2 - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
2 - Gloria Banditelli
1 - Deborah York
Other videos of the same singers performing Son nata a lagrimar:
2 - Jamie Barton
2 - Joyce DiDonato
5 - Brian Asawa
5 - Robert Crowe
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Charlotte Hellekant
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Charlotte Hellekant
3 - Marie-Nicole Lemieux
3 - Marie-Nicole Lemieux
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Sarah Connolly
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
2 - Stephanie Blythe
2 - Stephanie Blythe
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
3 - Sonia Prina
3 - Sonia Prina
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Stephanie Blythe
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Stephanie Blythe
3 - Sonia Prina
1 - Deborah York
2 - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
2 - Julia Hamari
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
Duetto
Cornelia e Sesto
Son nata/o a lagrimar/sospirar, e il dolce mio conforto,
ah, sempre piangerò.
Se il fato ci tradì,
sereno e lieto dì
mai più sperar potrò.
English Libretto or Translation:
Duet
Cornelia and Sesto
I was born / or lagrimar / sigh, and my sweet comfort,
ah, I will always cry.
If fate betrayed us,
serene and happy
I can never hope again.
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