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: | recitative |
Role(s): | Tito / Annio / Servilia |
Voice(s): | Tenor / Mezzo-Soprano / Soprano |
Act: | 2.23 |
Previous scene: | Che del ciel che degli Dei |
Next scene: | Ma che giorno e mai questo |
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K.621 / Act 2 - Sesto, de'tuoi delitti... Ma che giorno è mai questo? · Julia Varady · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · Sylvia McNair · Anne Sofie von Otter · Catherine Robbin · Cornelius Hauptmann · English Baroque Soloists · John Eliot Gardiner
Mozart Operas
℗ 1991 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 2011-01-01
Producer, Executive Producer: Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Producer, Executive Producer: Charlotte Kriesch
Producer, Recording Producer: Karl-August Naegler
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer: Ulrich Vette
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Jobst Eberhardt
Studio Personnel, Editor: Rainer Maillard
Studio Personnel, Editor: Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Caterino Mazzolà
Author, Original Text Author: Pietro Metastasio
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TITO
Sesto, de'tuoi delitti
tu sai la serie, e sai
qual pena ti si dee. Roma sconvolta,
l'offesa Maesta, le leggi offese,
l'amicizia tradita, il mondo, il cielo
voglion la morte tua. De'tradimenti
sai pur ch'io son l'unico oggetto; or senti.
VITELLIA
Eccoti, eccelso Augusto,
eccoti al pie la piu confusa...
(s'inginocchia)
TITO
Ah sorgi,
che fai? che brami?
VITELLIA
Io ti conduco innazi
l'autor dell'empia trama.
TITO
Ov'e? Che mai
preparo tante insidie al viver mio?
VITELLIA
Nol crederai.
TITO
Perche?
VITELLIA
Perche son io.
TITO
Tu ancora?
E quanti mai,
quanti siete a tradirmi?
VITELLIA
Io la piu rea
son di ciascuno! Io meditai la trama;
il piu fedele amico
io ti sedussi; io del suo cieco amore
a tuo danno abusai.
TITO
Ma del tuo sdegno
chi fu cagnion?
VITELLIA
La tua bonta. Credei
che questa fosse amor. La destra e 'l trono
da te sperava in dono, e poi negletta
restai piu volte, e procurai vendetta.
TITUS
Sextus,
you know the range of your crimes
and what punishment is due to you. Rome in turmoil,
majesty offended, laws affronted,
friendship betrayed ‑ the world and heaven
call for your death. Yet you know that
I am the sole object of your treachery: now listen.
VITELLIA
entering hastily
Here, mighty Emperor,
kneeling
here at your feet is the most troubled …
TITUS
Ah, rise!
What are you doing? What do you desire?
VITELLIA
I bring before you
the author of the wicked plot.
TITUS
Where is he? Who ever planned
such threats to my life?
VITELLIA
You will not believe it.
TITUS
Why not?
VITELLIA
Because it is I.
TITUS
You too?
SEXTUS and SERVILIA
Ye stars!
ANNIUS and PUBLIUS
Ye gods!
TITUS
And how many are there,
however many to betray me?
VITELLIA
I am the most guilty of all!
I conceived the plot.
I seduced from you your most
faithful friend: I took advantage
of his blind love for me.
TITUS
But what was the cause
of your anger?
VITELLIA
Your goodness. I thought that
this was love. I hoped for your hand and the throne
as a gift from you, and then
I was repeatedly passed over, and sought revenge.
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