Va la vecchia pedante
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 |
Recitative details:
Type: | recitative |
Role(s): | Cherubino / Susanna |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano / Soprano |
Act: | 1.11 |
| Previous scene: | Via resti servita madame Brilliante |
| Next scene: | Non so piu cosa son cosa faccio |
Watch videos with other singers performing Va la vecchia pedante:
1 - Rosemary Joshua
2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
1 - Margaret Lloyd
1 - Edith Mathis
2 - Tatiana Troyanos
1 - Christiane Karg
2 - Angela Brower
1 - Lucia Popp
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Patrizia Ciofi
2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
1 - Alison Hagley
1 - Mirella Freni
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Hilde Gueden
1 - Suzanne Danco
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Dawn Upshaw
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
1 - Barbara Bonney
2 - Petra Lang
1 - Mirella Freni
1 - Yvonne Minton
1 - Helen Donath
1 - Barbara Hendricks
1 - Felicity Palmer
2 - Agnes Baltsa
1 - Kathleen Battle
1 - Margaret Price
1 - Mariana Nicolesco
2 - Ann Murray
1 - Faith Esham
1 - Felicity Lott
1 - Gianna Rolandi
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Ileana Cotrubas
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Sylvia McNair
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Anna Moffo
2 - Fiorenza Cossotto
2 - Gabriele Sima
1 - Anneliese Rothenberger
1 - Edith Mathis
1 - Nadine Conner
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
2 - Mildred Miller
1 - Roberta Peters
2 - Mildred Miller
2 - Laura Polverelli
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Joan Rodgers
2 - Cecilia Bartoli
1 - Elisabeth Söderström
2 - Teresa Berganza
1 - Karita Mattila
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Irmgard Seefried
3 - Hertha Töpper
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Mariella Adani
1 - Sena Jurinac
1 - Bidu Sayão
1 - Jarmila Novotná
1 - Irmgard Seefried
2 - Christa Ludwig
1 - Bidu Sayão
1 - Eleanor Steber
1 - Jarmila Novotná
3 - Irra Petina
1 - Pilar Lorengar
1 - Rita Streich
1 - Teresa Stich-Randall
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Christine Schäfer
1 - Graziella Sciutti
1 - Jeannette Sinclair
1 - Sena Jurinac
2 - Risë Stevens
3 - Monica Sinclair
1 - Elisabeth Söderström
1 - Lisa Della Casa
1 - Mildred Allen
1 - Teresa Stratas
2 - Joan Wall
2 - Mildred Miller
2 - Regina Resnik
1 - Nadine Conner
1 - Roberta Peters
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
2 - Jean Madeira
2 - Mildred Miller
1 - Pilar Lorengar
1 - Rita Streich
Other videos of the same singers performing Va la vecchia pedante:
1 - Mirella Freni
1 - Yvonne Minton
1 - Kathleen Battle
1 - Margaret Price
1 - Mariana Nicolesco
2 - Ann Murray
1 - Alison Hagley
1 - Lucia Popp
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Ileana Cotrubas
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Mirella Freni
1 - Ileana Cotrubas
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Alison Hagley
1 - Hilde Gueden
1 - Suzanne Danco
1 - Nadine Conner
2 - Mildred Miller
1 - Nadine Conner
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Jarmila Novotná
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Mariella Adani
1 - Sena Jurinac
1 - Jarmila Novotná
1 - Jarmila Novotná
1 - Irmgard Seefried
1 - Anna Moffo
2 - Fiorenza Cossotto
1 - Dawn Upshaw
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
1 - Pilar Lorengar
1 - Rita Streich
1 - Teresa Stich-Randall
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
SUSANNA
Va' là, vecchia pedante,dottoressa arrogante,perché hai letti due libri
e seccata madama in gioventù...
CHERUBINO
esce in fretta
Susanetta, sei tu?
SUSANNA
Son io, cosa volete?
CHERUBINO
Ah, cor mio, che accidente!
SUSANNA
Cor vostro! Cosa avvenne?
CHERUBINO
Il Conte ieri
perché trovommi sol con Barbarina,
il congedo mi diede;
e se la Contessina,
la mia bella comare,
grazia non m'intercede, io vado via,
io non ti vedo più, Susanna mia!
SUSANNA
Non vedete più me! Bravo! Ma dunque
non più per la Contessa
secretamente il vostro cor sospira?
CHERUBINO
Ah, che troppo rispetto ella m'ispira!
Felice te, che puoi
vederla quando vuoi,
che la vesti il mattino,
che la sera la spogli, che le metti
gli spilloni, i merletti...
Ah, se in tuo loco...
Cos'hai lì?- Dimmi un poco...
SUSANNA
Ah, il vago nastro della notturna cuffia
di comare sì bella.
CHERUBINO
toglie il nastro di mano a Susanna
Deh, dammelo sorella,
dammelo per pietà!
SUSANNA
vuol riprenderglielo
Presto quel nastro!
CHERUBINO
si mette a girare intorno la sedia
O caro, o bello, o fortunato nastro!
Io non te'l renderò che colla vita!
SUSANNA
seguita a corrergli dietro, ma poi s'arresta come fosse stanca
Cos'è quest'insolenza?
CHERUBINO
Eh via, sta cheta!
In ricompensa poi
questa mia canzonetta io ti vo' dare.
SUSANNA
E che ne debbo fare?
CHERUBINO
Leggila alla padrona,
leggila tu medesma;
leggila a Barbarina, a Marcellina;
leggila ad ogni donna del palazzo!
SUSANNA
Povero Cherubin, siete voi pazzo!
English Libretto or Translation:
SUSANNA
Get away, you old frump!
Putting on high and mighty airs
Because you've read a couple of books
And used to torment my lady in her youth …
She puts the dress over the easy?chair
CHERUBINO
entering hurriedly
Susanna dear, is it you?
SUSANNA
Yes, it's me. What do you want?
CHERUBINO
Oh my dearest, what a misfortune!
SUSANNA
Your dearest! What's happened?
CHERUBINO
Yesterday the Count,
Because he found me all alone
With Barbarina, dismissed me:
And if the Countess,
My lovely godmother, doesn't intercede
To get me pardoned, I'll have to go away
And never see my dear Susanna again!
SUSANNA
Never see me again! Well then!
But isn't your heart secretly sighing
Any longer for the Countess?
CHERUBINO
Ah she fills me with too much respect!
How lucky you are, to be able
To see her whenever you wish!
You dress her in the morning
And undress her at night; you fix
Her pins, her laces ...
sighing
If only I could be in your place ...
What have you got there? Let me see ...
SUSANNA
imitating him
Oh what a pretty ribbon, and the nightcap
Of so lovely a godmother ...
CHERUBINO
Oh give me it, my dear.
Give me it, I beg.
He snatches the ribbon from her hand.
SUSANNA
Give it back at once.
She tries to take it back: he dodges round the easy-chair.
CHERUBINO
O dear, sweet, fortunate ribbon!
I'll not give it up except with my life.
He kisses the ribbon again and again.
SUSANNA
beginning to run after him, but then stopping as if tired
What is this insolence!
CHERUBINO
Go on, don't be angry!
In exchange for it I'll give you
This little song of mine.
He pulls a song from his pocket
SUSANNA
And what am I to do with it?
CHERUBINO
Read it to my lady,
Read it for yourself,
Read it to Barbarina, Marcellina,
Read it to every woman in the palace.
SUSANNA
Poor Cherubino, have you gone mad?
External links for Va la vecchia pedante
| Sheetmusic for recitative |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this recitative | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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