Contessa perdono
Opera details:
Opera title: | Le Nozze di Figaro |
Composer: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Le Nozze di Figaro Synopsis |
Libretto: | Le Nozze di Figaro Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Septet details:
Type: | ensemble,septet,finale |
Role(s): | Count Almaviva / Rosina / Susanna / Figaro / Cherubino / Marcellina / Bartolo / Basilio |
Voice(s): | Baritone / Soprano / Soprano / Bass-Baritone / Mezzo-Soprano / Soprano / Bass |
Act: | 4.15c |
| Previous scene: | Perdono perdono! |
| Next scene: | Ah! tutti contenti |
Le nozze di Figaro: 'Contessa perdono' ('Countess, forgive me') – Glyndebourne
Singer(s): Isabel Leonard Sally Matthews Audun IversenSally Matthews and Audun Iversen perform 'Contessa perdono' in the Festival 2012 production of Le nozze di Figaro.
Director: Michael Grandage
Conductor: Robin Ticciati, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Cast includes:
Vito Priante, Lydia Teuscher, Audun Iversen, Sally Matthews, Isabel Leonard. The Glyndebourne Chorus
Le nozze di Figaro is the quintessential Glyndebourne opera- first performed in 1934 and in 1994 when the opera house re-opened.
‘This is a Figaro of rare grace, naturalness and charm’, said The Daily Telegraph, and for The Sunday Times it was a production that ‘affirms Mozart’s most beloved masterpiece as both of its time and perennially modern, Grandage oiling the comic mechanisms of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto with a master technician’s hands.’
Available on DVD and Blu-ray at glyndebourneshop.com
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Watch videos with other singers performing Contessa perdono:
1 - Sally Matthews
2 - Isabel Leonard
6 - Audun Iversen
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Mariella Adani
1 - Sena Jurinac
6 - Rolando Panerai
7 - Franco Calabrese
7 - Mario Petri
1 - Dorothea Röschmann
1 - Martina Janková
2 - Ann Murray
6 - Adam Plachetka
6 - Luca Pisaroni
1 - Simone Kermes
6 - Andrei Bondarenko
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Dorothea Röschmann
1 - Marie McLaughlin
6 - Bo Skovhus
1 - Margaret Lloyd
1 - Kirsten MacKinnon
1 - Irmgard Seefried
2 - Jennie Tourel
6 - William Warfield
1 - Edith Mathis
1 - Gundula Janowitz
2 - Patricia Johnson
2 - Tatiana Troyanos
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Hermann Prey
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Maria Stader
3 - Hertha Töpper
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Renato Capecchi
1 - Mirella Freni
2 - Frederica von Stade
6 - José van Dam
1 - Simone Kermes
6 - Andrei Bondarenko
6 - Christian Van Horn
1 - Jarmila Novotná
6 - Mariano Stabile
7 - Ezio Pinza
7 - Virgilio Lazzari
6 - Tom Krause
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Irmgard Seefried
6 - Erich Kunz
6 - George London
1 - Lisa Della Casa
1 - Roberta Peters
2 - Rosalind Elias
6 - George London
7 - Giorgio Tozzi
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Elisabeth Söderström
2 - Teresa Berganza
6 - Ernest Blanc
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
7 - Fernando Corena
1 - Lisa Della Casa
6 - George London
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
6 - Frank Guarrera
1 - Graziella Sciutti
1 - Sena Jurinac
6 - Ian Wallace
6 - Sesto Bruscantini
7 - Franco Calabrese
1 - Rita Streich
1 - Sena Jurinac
6 - Paul Schöffler
6 - Walter Berry
1 - Lisa Della Casa
7 - Kim Borg
1 - Nadine Conner
1 - Roberta Peters
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
2 - Jean Madeira
2 - Mildred Miller
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
7 - Cesare Siepi
7 - Salvatore Baccaloni
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Sena Jurinac
6 - Erich Kunz
6 - George London
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
7 - Ivo Vinco
1 - Elisabeth Söderström
1 - Lisa Della Casa
1 - Mildred Allen
1 - Teresa Stratas
2 - Joan Wall
2 - Mildred Miller
2 - Regina Resnik
7 - Cesare Siepi
7 - Ezio Flagello
7 - Kim Borg
1 - Rita Streich
1 - Teresa Stich-Randall
6 - Rolando Panerai
Other videos of the same singers performing Contessa perdono:
6 - George London
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Irmgard Seefried
6 - Erich Kunz
6 - George London
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
7 - Ivo Vinco
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
IL CONTE
Contessa, perdono!
LA CONTESSA
Più docile io sono,
e dico di sì.
TUTTI
Ah, tutti contenti
saremo così.
Questo giorno di tormenti,
di capricci, e di follia,
in contenti e in allegria
solo amor può terminar.
Sposi, amici, al ballo, al gioco,
alle mine date foco!
Ed al suon di lieta marcia
corriam tutti a festeggiar!
English Libretto or Translation:
COUNT
My Countess, forgive me.
COUNTESS
I am kinder:
I will say "Yes."
ALL
Then let us all
Be happy.
This day of torment,
Of caprices and folly,
Love can end
Only in contentment and joy.
Lovers and friends, let's round things off
In dancing and pleasure,
And to the sound of a gay march
Let's hasten to the revelry.
External links for Contessa perdono
| Sheetmusic for this septet | on  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for this opera | on Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this septet | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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