Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Act III - "Ben mi lusinga" - "Ahi, sventurato amante" - Sinfonia - "Ei dorme" · John Tomlinson · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · English Baroque Soloists · John Eliot Gardiner
The All-Baroque Box
â„— 1987 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 2012-01-01
Producer, Executive Producer: Dr. Andreas Holschneider Producer, Executive Producer: Charlotte Kriesch Producer, Recording Producer, Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer: Karl-August Naegler Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer, Editor: Gregor Zielinsky Composer: Claudio Monteverdi Author: Alessandro Striggio
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ORFEO Ahi, 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:
ORPHEUS Ah, 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!