Ah! Belinda I am prest
Opera details:
Opera title: | Dido and Aeneas |
Composer: | Henry Purcell |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | Dido and Aeneas Synopsis |
Libretto: | Dido and Aeneas Libretto |
Translation(s): | Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Dido |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano or Soprano |
Act: | 1.03 |
| Previous scene: | Shake the cloud from off your brow |
| Next scene: | Grief increases by concealing |
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest with Torment" (Dido)
Singer: Victoria de los ÁngelesProvided to YouTube by Warner Classics
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest with Torment" (Dido) · Sir John Barbirolli · Victoria de los Angeles · Raymond Leppard
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
â„— 1966 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. Remastered 2020 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Soprano Vocals: Victoria de los Angeles
Harpsichord: Raymond Leppard
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
Composer: Henry Purcell
Poet: Nahum Tate
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Other videos of the same singers performing Ah! Belinda I am prest:
1 - Jessye Norman
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Susan Graham
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Susan Graham
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Carolyn Watkinson
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Carolyn Watkinson
1 - Catherine Bott
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Marie McLaughlin
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
DIDO
Ah! Belinda,
I am pressed with torment not to be confessed.
Peace and I are strangers grown.
I languish till my grief is known
Yet would not have it guessed.
External links for Ah! Belinda I am prest
| Sheetmusic for aria |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
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