O dolcissimi lumi
Opera details:
Opera title: | L' Orfeo |
Composer: | Claudio Monteverdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | L' Orfeo Synopsis |
Libretto: | L' Orfeo Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Quartet details:
Type: | quartet |
Role(s): | Euridice / Orfeo / Spirito I / Spirito III |
Voice(s): | Soprano / Tenor / Baritone / Bass |
Act: | 4.08 |
| Previous scene: | Qual onor di te |
| Next scene: | Rotto hai |
Watch videos with other singers performing O dolcissimi lumi:
1 - Roberta Invernizzi
3 - Sara Mingardo
5 - Robert Wilson
6 - Georg Nigl
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
7 - John Tomlinson
1 - Magda László
5 - Lajos Kozma
5 - John Mark Ainsley
5 - Ian Bostridge
5 - Max Meili
6 - Dietrich Henschel
Other videos of the same singers performing O dolcissimi lumi:
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
7 - John Tomlinson
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
7 - John Tomlinson
5 - Max Meili
5 - John Mark Ainsley
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
7 - John Tomlinson
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
Qui si volta Orfeo.O dolcissimi lumi, io pur vi veggio,
Io pur... ma qual eclissi, oimè, v'oscura?
SPIRITO III
Rott'hai la legge, e se' di grazia indegno.
EURIDICE
Ahi, vista troppo dolce e troppo amara,
Così per troppo amor dunque mi perdi?
Ed io, misera, perdo
Il poter più godere
E di luce e di vita, e perdo insieme
Te, d'ogni ben più caro, o mio consorte.
SPIRITO I
Torn'a l'ombre di morte,
Infelice Euridice,
Ne più sperar di riveder le stelle,
Ch'omai fia sordo a prieghi tuoi l'Inferno.
ORFEO
Dove ten vai, mia vita? Ecco, io ti seguo,
Ma chi me 'I niega, oimè? Sogno o vaneggio?
Qual occulto poter di questi orrori,
Da questi amati orrori
Mal mio grado mi tragge e mi conduce
A l'odiosa luce?
English Libretto or Translation:
Orpheus turns round.O sweetest eyes, now I see you,
now I ... but alas! what eclipse obscures you?
THIRD SPIRIT
You have broken the law and are unworthy of mercy.
EURYDICE
Ah, sight too sweet and too bitter!
Thus, then, through excess of love you lose me?
And I, unhappy one, lose
the power any longer to enjoy
either light or life, and lose you too,
O my husband, more precious than all else.
FIRST SPIRIT
Return to the shadows of death,
unhappy Eurydice,
and hope no more to see the stars again,
for henceforth Hades is deaf to your prayers.
ORPHEUS
Where are you going, my life? See I follow you!
But who prevents me, alas? Am I dreaming or delirious?
What occult power among these horrors
drags me against my will
from these horrors I love and leads me
to the hateful light?
External links for O dolcissimi lumi
| Sheetmusic for quartet |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this quartet | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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