Opera title: | Rinaldo |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Rinaldo Synopsis |
Libretto: | Rinaldo Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Rinaldo |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano or CounterTenor |
Act: | 2 |
Previous scene: | Vo' far guerra |
Next scene: | Abbruggio avampo e fremo |
Mezzo Sarah Connolly sings 'Lascia Ch'io Pianga' from Handel's 'Rinaldo.' From her 2011 baroque recital in Frankfurt, performed as an encore. With the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Gottfried von der Goltz.
Photo by Peter Warren.
RINALDO
Lascia ch'io pianga
Mia cruda sorte,
E che sospiri
La libertà.
Il duolo infranga
Queste ritorte,
De' miei martiri
Sol per pietà.
RINALDO
Let me weep
My cruel fate,
And that I
should have freedom.
The duel infringes
within these twisted places,
in my sufferings
I pray for mercy.
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