Kurt Streit plays a debonair (and very charming) Grimoaldo in the 1998 Glyndebourne production of Händel's "Rodelinda".
I noticed that there just isn't enough of this brilliant tenor online, so I shall attempt to remedy that. Enjoy! His stage manner (especially the bit in the clip where he's just rolling around on the stage) is very endearing, and I firmly believe he is one of the great singing actors of our time.
Watch videos with other singers performing Se per te giungo a godere:
Grimoaldo Scaccia il timore, che questo lauro mio sarà in difesa tua, contro il più crudo fulmine del suo sdegno, un forte scudo.
Aria di Grimoaldo Se per te giungo a godere, puoi temer di chi? di che? (ne sai perche?) Io d'Astrea do moto al brando, io commando, io son Re. Se...etc. (parte con Garibaldo)
English Libretto or Translation:
Grimoaldo Banish that fear;beneath my laurels shalt thou stand protected, against the thunder of her wrath secure. Thro` thy means, if I enjoy her, what or whom hast thou to dread? Justice strikes, as I employ her, Strikes, when kings demand a head. Thro etc.