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 |
Lascia ch'io pianga (Handel) | boy soprano Aksel Rykkvin (14y), Rolf Lislevand, Knut Erik Sundquist
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"Lascia ch'io pianga" from "Rinaldo" by George Frideric Handel
Aksel Rykkvin - treble
Rolf Lislevand - lute
Knut Erik Sundquist - double bass
This was one of the musical gifts from the Norwegian Government to His Majesty King Harald and Her Majesty Queen Sonja for the official celebration of their 80th anniversary.
Recorded live and broadcast on NRK1 on May 10, 2017. The full broadcast can be streamed here:
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Watch videos with other singers performing Lascia ch'io pianga:
1 - Julia Lezhneva
1 - Patricia Petibon
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Aksel Rykkvin
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Sumi Jo
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
2 -
1 - Sandrine Piau
1 - Karina Gauvin
5 - Derek Lee Ragin
2 - Cristina Iordachescu
1 - Danielle de Niese
1 - Renée Fleming
1 -
1 - Arleen Auger
1 - María Ros
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
3 - Sara Mingardo
2 - Malena Ernman
5 - Radu Marian
1 - Roberta Invernizzi
2 - Magdalena Kožená
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
1 - Maria Callas
5 - José Carreras
1 - Louise Fribo
5 - Robert Crowe
2 - Tuva Semmingsen
6 - Muslim Magomayev
1 - Marita Solberg
2 - Nicolò Grimaldi
2 - Sarah Connolly
1 - Simone Kermes
1 - Yvonne Kenny
5 - Anthony Roth Costanzo
5 - Angelo Manzotti
1 - Elin Manahan Thomas
2 - Grace Bumbry
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Claudia Muzio
6 - Giuseppe De Luca
1 - Benita Valente
1 - Inva Mula
1 - Sunhae Im
1 - Miah Persson
1 - Annick Massis
5 - Franco Fagioli
1 - Nuria Rial
1 - Maria Grazia Schiavo
2 - Teresa Berganza
2 - Bernadette Greevy
1 - Evelyn Tubb
5 - Alfred Deller
1 - Carla Maffioletti
1 - Anna Caterina Antonacci
1 - Margherita Chimenti
1 - Élisabeth Duparc
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Marilyn Horne
3 - Maureen Forrester
5 - Alfred Deller
5 - Andreas Scholl
5 - Christophe Dumaux
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Deborah York
1 - Lenneke Ruiten
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Simone Kermes
2 - Frederica von Stade
2 - Vivica Genaux
5 - Luciano Pavarotti
2 -
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
3 - Ewa Podles
3 - Hilary Summers
5 - Daniel Taylor
1 - Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti
2 - Nicolò Grimaldi
3 -
3 - Francesca Vanini-Boschi
5 - Andreas Scholl
5 -
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
1 - Diana Damrau
1 - Maria Callas
2 - Joyce DiDonato
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Giulietta Simionato
3 - Nathalie Stutzmann
5 - Kai Wessel
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 - Radu Marian
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
5 - Saimir Pirgu
1 - Brenda Rae
3 - Sonia Prina
5 - Tim Mead
5 - William Towers
1 - Deborah York
5 - David Daniels
1 - Sandrine Piau
2 - Gloria Banditelli
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Marilyn Horne
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
1 - Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti
2 -
2 - Bernarda Fink
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Nicolò Grimaldi
3 -
3 - Francesca Vanini-Boschi
5 - Bejun Mehta
5 - David Daniels
1 - Arleen Auger
1 - Maria Callas
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Maria Malibran
5 - Luciano Pavarotti
5 - Vinson Cole
2 -
5 - Yoshikazu Mera
2 -
2 - Ann Hallenberg
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
5 - José Carreras
5 - Plácido Domingo
1 - Renata Tebaldi
1 - Renée Fleming
5 - Richard Tucker
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 -
5 - Derek Lee Ragin
Other videos of the same singers performing Lascia ch'io pianga:
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
1 -
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Julia Lezhneva
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Karina Gauvin
1 - Patricia Petibon
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
1 -
1 - Karina Gauvin
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Magdalena Kožená
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Aksel Rykkvin
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Tuva Semmingsen
2 - Tuva Semmingsen
2 -
2 -
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 -
2 - Joyce DiDonato
5 - Radu Marian
2 - Tuva Semmingsen
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Sumi Jo
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Sandrine Piau
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
1 - Elin Manahan Thomas
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
1 - Patricia Petibon
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Yvonne Kenny
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
5 - Robert Crowe
5 -
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Danielle de Niese
1 - Jessye Norman
5 - Angelo Manzotti
1 - Jessye Norman
1 -
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Simone Kermes
1 - Sandrine Piau
2 - Joyce DiDonato
1 - Suzie LeBlanc
1 - Miah Persson
1 - Sonya Yoncheva
1 - Arleen Auger
1 -
1 -
2 - Teresa Berganza
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
2 - Bernadette Greevy
5 - Philippe Jaroussky
5 -
5 -
5 - Alfred Deller
5 -
2 - Bernadette Greevy
5 - Anthony Roth Costanzo
2 -
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
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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