Ahi sventurato amante
Opera details:
Opera title: | L' Orfeo |
Composer: | Claudio Monteverdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | L' Orfeo Synopsis |
Libretto: | L' Orfeo Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Orfeo |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 3.08 |
| Previous scene: | Ben mi lusinga alquanto |
| Next scene: | Ei dorme |
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Act 3 - Ahi, sventurato amante!
Singer: Helmut KrebsProvided to YouTube by Universal Music Group International
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Act 3 - Ahi, sventurato amante! · Helmut Krebs · Orchester der Sommerlichen Musiktage Hitzacker 1955 · August Wenzinger
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
℗ 1956 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1997-01-01
Producer: Dr. Fred Hamel
Recording Producer: Harald Baudis
Editor: Heinrich Keilholz
Author: Alessandro Striggio
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
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5 - Helmut Krebs
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5 - Lajos Kozma
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5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
5 - Helmut Krebs
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
ORFEOAhi, sventurato amante,
Sperar dunque non lice
Ch'odan miei prieghi i cittadin d'Averno?
Onde, qual ombra errante
D'insepolto cadavero e infelice,
Privo sarò del Cielo e dell'Inferno?
Così vuol empia sorte
Ch'in quest'orror di morte
Da te, cor mio, lontano,
Chiami tuo nome invano,
E pregando e piangendo io mi consumi.
Rendetemi il mio ben, tartarei Numi!
English Libretto or Translation:
ORPHEUSAh, hapless lover that I am,
may I not then hope
that the citizens of Avernus will hear my pleas?
Wherefore, like an unhappy errant shade
of an unburied corpse,
I am to be deprived of both heaven and hell?
Thus does pitiless destiny will
that in this horror of death,
far from you, my beloved,
I should call your name in vain
and wear myself out in imploring and weeping.
O give me back my love, ye gods of Tartarus!
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