Opera title: | Gianni Schicchi |
Composer: | Giacomo Antonio Puccini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Gianni Schicchi Synopsis |
Libretto: | Gianni Schicchi Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Lauretta |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1 |
Previous scene: | Firenze e come un albero fiorito |
Next scene: | Povero Buoso |
Descended from a family of musicians, Puccini was the most important Italian opera composer in the generation after Verdi. He was born and educated in Lucca, later studying under Ponchielli at the Milan Conservatory. He began his career as a composer of opera with Le Villi, on the story familiar from Adam's ballet Giselle, but first won significant success in 1893 with Manon Lescaut. A musical dramatist of considerable power, if sometimes lacking in depth, he wrote in all twelve operas, the last, Turandot, still unfinished at the time of his death in 1924.
Gianni Schicchi - O, mio babbino caro (running time : 2:25)
Courtesy to Miriam Gauci (soprano), BRTPO/ Alexander Rahbari
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Unlike 'La Fanciulla del West', Il Trittico attempts a change of mood. Gianni Schicchi is the third and final part of the three short operas known as the triptych.
O mio babbino caro,
mi piace è bello, bello;
vo'andare in Porta Rossa
a comperar l'anello!
Sì, sì, ci voglio andare!
e se l'amassi indarno,
andrei sul Ponte Vecchio,
ma per buttarmi in Arno!
Mi struggo e mi tormento!
O Dio, vorrei morir!
Babbo, pietà , pietà !
Babbo, pietà , pietà !
Oh my dear papa,
I love him, he is handsome, handsome.
I want to go to Porta Rossa
To buy the ring!
Yes, yes, I want to go there!
And if I loved him in vain,
I would go to the Ponte Vecchio,
but to throw myself in the Arno!
I am anguished and tormented!
Oh God, I'd want to die!
Papa, have pity, have pity!
Papa, have pity, have pity!
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