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 |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Tito |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 1.13 |
Previous scene: | Adesso oh Sesto |
Next scene: | Non ci pentiam |
Another excerpt from the Zurich performance of "La clemenza di Tito". Tito's aria "Del più sublime soglio", with spoken recitatives before it.
Tito announces that now, after his failure with Berenice, he chooses Servilia, Sesto's sister, to be his wife. Annio, who's in love with Servilia, is appalled but meekly accepts it and even says the emperor couldn't find himself a better wife. Tito then promises to grant Sesto great honors and gifts, Sesto asks the emperor to moderate his generosity (yes, that's what he's saying despite his smug expression %)). But Tito brushes his objections aside and says that generosity is the only benefit of being a person in power.
Tito - Jonas Kaufmann
Sesto - Vesselina Kasarova
Annio - Liliana Nikiteanu
TITO
Del piu sublime soglio
L'unico frutto e questo;
Tutto e tormento il resto,
E tutto e servitu.
Che avrei, se ancor perdessi
Le sole ore felici,
Ch'ho nel giovar gli oppressi,
Nel sollevar gli amici;
Nel dispensar tesori
Al merto, e alla virtu?
(parla con Sesto)
TITUS
This is the sole fruit
of the most splendid of thrones:
all the rest is torment,
all else is servitude.
What should I have, were I also
to lose the only happy hours I have
in helping those in distress,
in raising up my friends,
in awarding riches
to merit and to valour?
Exit with Sextus
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