Lascia ch'io pianga
Opera details:
Opera title: | Rinaldo |
Composer: | Georg Handel |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Rinaldo Synopsis |
Libretto: | Rinaldo Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Rinaldo |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano or CounterTenor |
Act: | 2 |
| Previous scene: | Vo' far guerra |
| Next scene: | Abbruggio avampo e fremo |
Joyce DiDonato - In War & Peace - Lascia ch'io pianga
Singer: Joyce DiDonatoA short film from the new album: In War & Peace: Harmony through Music. Filmed on location in Santa Fe, Handel's timeless aria speaks to our world today in a moving and hopeful way.
"Allow that I weep
over my cruel fate,
and that I may sigh
for the freedom.
Let my sadness shatter
these chains of my suffering,
if only out of pity."
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano
Manuel Palazzo, Dancer
Il pomo d'oro, Orchestra
James Darrah, Director
Adam Larson, Director of Photography, Editor
Pablo Santiago, Lighting
In War & Peace: Harmony through Music, new album - pre order now: Album website:
Watch videos with other singers performing Lascia ch'io pianga:
1 - Julia Lezhneva
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Montserrat Caballé
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
5 - Franco Fagioli
1 - Patricia Petibon
1 - Sandrine Piau
5 - Andreas Scholl
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Karina Gauvin
2 - Cristina Iordachescu
1 - Danielle de Niese
1 - Arleen Auger
1 - Renée Fleming
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
2 - Malena Ernman
1 - Roberta Invernizzi
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
3 - Sara Mingardo
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Louise Fribo
5 - José Carreras
1 - Sumi Jo
2 - Magdalena Koená
5 - Robert Crowe
2 - Nicolň Grimaldi
6 - Muslim Magomayev
1 - Marita Solberg
2 - Sarah Connolly
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
5 - Angelo Manzotti
2 - Grace Bumbry
1 - Yvonne Kenny
1 - Claudia Muzio
1 - Annick Massis
1 - Miah Persson
1 - Benita Valente
6 - Giuseppe De Luca
1 - Elin Manahan Thomas
1 - Inva Mula
1 - Simone Kermes
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
3 - Ewa Podles
3 - Hilary Summers
5 - Daniel Taylor
1 - Laura Claycomb
1 - Magali Léger
1 - Natalie Dessay
1 - Patricia Petibon
1 - Sandrine Piau
2 - Ann Hallenberg
2 - Delphine Haidan
2 - Karine Deshayes
2 - Renata Pokupi?
3 - Sara Mingardo
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Rolando Villazón
5 - Topi Lehtipuu
1 - Brenda Rae
3 - Sonia Prina
5 - Tim Mead
5 - William Towers
Other videos of the same singers performing Lascia ch'io pianga:
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Karina Gauvin
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
1 - Patricia Petibon
1 - Julia Lezhneva
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Joyce DiDonato
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Sandrine Piau
1 - Yvonne Kenny
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Claudia Muzio
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
5 - Robert Crowe
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
1 - Renée Fleming
2 - Joyce DiDonato
5 - Franco Fagioli
2 - Marilyn Horne
5 - Angelo Manzotti
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
RINALDO
Lascia ch'io pianga
Mia cruda sorte,
E che sospiri
La libertà.
Il duolo infranga
Queste ritorte,
De' miei martiri
Sol per pietà.
English Libretto or Translation:
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.
External links for Lascia ch'io pianga
| Sheetmusic for aria |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this aria | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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