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 |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Cherubino |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano |
Act: | 2.04 |
Previous scene: | Quanto duolmi Susanna |
Next scene: | Bravo che bella voce! |
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Perhaps no opera is closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Effortlessly witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, this deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another was Glyndebourne's opening production in 1934. Michael Grandage's staging is the seventh, set in a louche Sixties ambience. Marshalled by the 'ideal pacing' of Robin Ticciati, a youthful cast of principals has 'no weak link' and 'looks gorgeous' (The Sunday Times) in a production that continues Glyndebourne's rewarding history of engagement with Mozart's and da Ponte's 'day of madness'.
Countess Almaviva: Sally Matthews
Figaro: Vito Priante
Count Almaviva: Audun Iversen
Susanna: Lydia Teuscher
Cherubino: Isabel Leonard
Bartolo: Andrew Shore
Marcellina: Ann Murray
Don Basilio:Alan Oke
Antonio: Nicholas Folwell
Don Curzio: Colin Judson
Barbarina: Sarah Shafer
First Bridesmaid: Ellie Laugharne
Second Bridesmaid: Katie Bray
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Director: Michael Grandage
Recorded live at Glyndebourne Festival, June 2012
CHERUBINO
Voi che sapete
che cosa è amor,
donne, vedete
s'io l'ho nel cor.
Quello ch'io provo
vi ridirò,
è per me nuovo,
capir nol so.
Sento un affetto
pien di desir,
ch'ora è diletto,
ch'ora è martir.
Gelo e poi sento
l'alma avvampar,
e in un momento
torno a gelar.
Ricerco un bene
fuori di me,
non so chi'l tiene,
non so cos'è.
Sospiro e gemo
senza voler,
palpito e tremo
senza saper.
Non trovo pace
notte né dì,
ma pur mi piace
languir così.
Voi che sapete
che cosa è amor,
donne, vedete
s'io l'ho nel cor.
CHERUBINO
You ladies
Who know what love is,
See if it is
What I have in my heart.
All that I feel
I will explain;
Since it is new to me,
I don't understand it.
I have a feeling
Full of desire,
Which now is pleasure,
Now is torment.
I freeze, then I feel
My spirit all ablaze,
And the next moment
Turn again to ice.
I seek for a treasure
Outside of myself;
I know not who holds it
Nor what it is.
I sigh and I groan
Without wishing to,
I flutter and tremble
Without knowing why.
I find no peace
By night or day,
But yet to languish thus
Is sheer delight.
You ladies
Who know what love is,
See if it is
What I have in my heart.
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