Se la giurata fede

Opera details:

Opera title:	Tosca
Composer:	Giacomo Antonio Puccini
Language:	Italian
Synopsis:	Tosca Synopsis
Libretto:	Tosca Libretto
Translation(s):	English Deutsch

Aria details:

Type:	aria,recitative
Role(s):	Floria Tosca / Baron Scarpia
Voice(s):	Soprano
Act:	2.12c

Previous scene:	Gia mi dicon venal
Next scene:	Ah! piuttosto giu m'avvento

Se la giurata fede debbo tradir... Vissi d'arte

Singer: Dorothy Kirsten

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Scene from Act II of Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Dorothy Kirsten as Tosca
Frank Guarrera as Scarpia
Metropolitan Opera Record Club, 1956

Dorothy Kirsten had one of the longest Met careers ever, if not the longest. Here she sings the famous Vissi d'arte absolutely beautifully. It's a shame that she isn't more recorded. It's also a shame that these old Record Club LPs are slightly cut. They're very good.

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:

TOSCA
siede in faccia a Scarpia, guardandolo fissamente. Appoggiando i gomiti sul tavolo, colle mani si sorregge il viso, e coll'accento del più profondo disprezzo chiede a Scarpia:
Quanto?

SCARPIA
imperturbabile, versandosi da bere
Quanto?

TOSCA
Il prezzo!...

SCARPIA
ride
Già - Mi dicon venal, ma a donna bella
insinuante e con intenzione
non mi vendo a prezzo di moneta.
Se la giurata fede
devo tradir... ne voglio altra mercede.
Quest'ora io l'attendeva!
Già mi struggea
l'amor della diva!
Ma poc'anzi ti mirai
qual non ti vidi mai!
eccitatissimo, si alza
Quel tuo pianto era lava
ai sensi miei e il tuo sguardo
che odio in me dardeggiava,
mie brame inferociva!...
Agil qual leopardo
ti avvinghiasti all'amante;
Ah! In quell'istante
t'ho giurata mia!...
Mia!
si avvicina, stendendo le braccia verso Tosca: questa, che aveva ascoltato immobile, impietrita, le lascive parole di Scarpia, s'alza di scatto e si rifugia dietro il canapè

TOSCA
Ah!

SCARPIA
quasi inseguendola
Sì, t'avrò!...

English Libretto or Translation:

TOSCA
still staring at Scarpia, she advances towards the table. She sits resolutely facing him, then asks in a tone of the deepest contempt:
How much?

SCARPIA
imperturbable, as she pours his drink
How much?
laughs

TOSCA
What is your price?

SCARPIA
Yes, they say that I am venal, but it is not
For money that I will sell myself
To beautitul women. I want other recompense
If I am to betray my oath of office.
I have waited for this hour.
Already in the past I burned
With passion for the Diva.
But tonight I have beheld you
In a new role I had not seen before.
Those tears of yours were lava
To my senses and that fierce hatred
Which your eyes shot at me, only fanned
The fire in my blood.
Supple as a leopard
You enrapped your lover. In that instant
I vowed you would be mine!
Mine! Yes, I will have you …

Rises and stretches out his arms towards Tosca. She has listened motionless to his wanton tirade. Now she leaps up and takes refuge behind the sofa.

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