Come ti piace imponi
Opera details:
Opera title: | La Clemenza di Tito |
Composer: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | La Clemenza di Tito Synopsis |
Libretto: | La Clemenza di Tito Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Vitellia / Sesto |
Voice(s): | Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano |
Act: | 1.03 |
| Previous scene: | Ma che sempre l'istesso |
| Next scene: | Amico il passo affretta |
Tatiana Troyanos & Carol Neblett - W.A. Mozart "La Clemenza di Tito" Act 1 " Come ti piace imponi"
Singer(s): Carol Neblett Tatiana TroyanosW.A. Mozart
"La Clemenza di Tito"
Act l "Come ti piace imponi"
Tito - Eric Tappy
Sesto - Tatiana Troyanos
Vitellia - Carol Neblett
-Special thanks to andrea585ny for her continuous support.
Conductor - James Levine
Wienner Philharmoniker
Winner Staatsoperchor
-Synopsis-
Rome, AD 79
Vitellia, daughter of the Emperor Vitellius, is in love with the emperor Tito, even though his father murdered hers. Enraged that he has not chosen her as his bride, she persuades his best friend Sesto, who is love with her, to assassinate Tito and share the throne with her. He sets the Capitol of Rome on fire and, in the darkness, kills the emperor, whose death is mourned throughout Rome. The actual victim, a disguised fellow-conspirator, survives to name his assailant.
Sesto is arrested, refuses to implicate Vitellia, and is condemned to be thrown to wild beasts in the Colosseum. Tito cannot bring himself to sign his friend's death warrant, and is about to pardon Sesto and his accomplices when Vitellia admits her guilt and her motive. Tito forgives her as well, demonstrating his celebrated clemency.
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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
SESTO
Come ti piace imponi:
Regola i moti miei.
Il mio destin tu sei,
Tutto faro per te.
VITELLIA
Prima che il sol tramonti,
Estinto io vo l'indegne.
Sai ch'egli usurpa un regno,
Che in sorte il ciel mi die.
SESTO
Gia il tuo furor m'accende.
VITELLIA
Ebben, che piu s'attenfe?
SESTO
Un dolce sguardo almeno
Sia premio alla mia fe!
A DUE
Fan mille affetti insieme
battaglia in me spietata.
Un'alma lacerata
piu della mia non v'e.
English Libretto or Translation:
SEXTUS
Command me as you will;
order my every move.
You are my destiny;
I will do anything for you.
VITELLIA
Before the sun sets
I want the wretch dead.
You know he usurps a kingdom
that heaven allotted to me.
SEXTUS
Your fury already sets me aflame.
VITELLIA
Well, what more are you waiting for?
SEXTUS
Let one sweet look at least
be the reward for my devotion!
VITELLIA and SEXTUS
A thousand emotions wage
pitiless war together within me.
There is no soul
more tormented than mine.
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