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 |
A 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
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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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