Deh! se piacer mi vuoi
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 |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Vitellia |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1.05 |
| Previous scene: | Amico il passo affretta |
| Next scene: | Amico ecco il momento |
Lucia Popp - W.A. Mozart " La Clemenza di Tito" Act I Vitellia "Deh se piacer mi vuoi"
Singer: Lucia PoppW.A. Mozart " La Clemenza di Tito"
Act I Vitellia "Deh se piacer mi vuoi"
Vitellia - Lucia Popp
Conductor - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Orchester der Oper Zurich
Recording - March 1993
This is Lucia Popp's last recording.
-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.
Watch videos with other singers performing Deh! se piacer mi vuoi:
1 - Lucia Popp
1 - Carol Vaness
1 - Barbara Frittoli
1 - Ashley Putnam
2 - Elīna Garanča
1 - Nicole Chevalier
2 - Kate Aldrich
1 - Anna Caterina Antonacci
1 - Júlia Várady
1 - Elizabeth Connell
1 - Annemarie Kremer
1 - Carmela Remigio
1 - Christiane Eda-Pierre
1 - Dorothea Röschmann
1 - Hilde Zadek
1 - Carol Neblett
1 - Alexandrina Pendatchanska
1 - Karina Gauvin
1 - Dorothea Röschmann
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
1 - Anna Caterina Antonacci
2 - Elīna Garanča
1 - Ashley Putnam
2 - Diana Montague
1 - Joan Sutherland
2 - Anna Pollak
3 - Monica Sinclair
1 - Júlia Várady
2 - Marga Schiml
2 - Teresa Berganza
1 - Hilde Zadek
1 - Ria Ginster
1 - Rose Pauly
1 - Sena Jurinac
5 - Nicolai Gedda
Other videos of the same singers performing Deh! se piacer mi vuoi:
1 - Barbara Frittoli
2 - Elīna Garanča
1 - Júlia Várady
1 - Carol Vaness
1 - Lucia Popp
1 - Hilde Zadek
1 - Hilde Zadek
1 - Júlia Várady
2 - Marga Schiml
2 - Teresa Berganza
1 - Júlia Várady
2 - Marga Schiml
2 - Teresa Berganza
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
VITELLIA
Deh se piacer mi vuoi,
Lascia i sospetti tuoi;
Non mi stancar con questo
Molesto dubitar.
Chi ciecamente crede,
Impegne a serbar fede;
Chi sempre inganni aspetta
Aletta ad ingannar.
English Libretto or Translation:
VITELLIA
Ah, if you wish to please me,
cast aside your suspicions;
do not weary me
with these irksome doubts.
He who blindly believes
obliges one to keep faith;
he who always expects
to be betrayed invites betrayal.
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