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 |
Romina Basso, "Ah Belinda"
Singer: Romina BassoDido's first lament
from Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell
Romina Basso , mezzosoprano
Conductor:Phillipe Pierlot
"For me this is the best redition of this aria, bravissima Romina!"
Lyrics:
Ah! Belinda, I am prest
With torment not to be confest,
Peace and I are strangers grown.
I languish till my grief is known,
yet would not have it guess'd.
Watch videos with other singers performing Ah! Belinda I am prest:
2 - Janet Baker
1 - Jessye Norman
2 - Romina Basso
2 - Carolyn Watkinson
2 - Susan Graham
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
1 - Lynne Dawson
1 - Catherine Bott
2 - Tatiana Troyanos
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
2 - Nancy Maultsby
2 - Maria Ewing
1 - Sophie Karthäuser
2 - Bernarda Fink
2 - Elisabeth von Magnus
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Adele Leigh
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - June Bronhill
1 - Marianne Mathy
1 - Sylvia Fisher
2 - Rosina Raisbeck
1 - Lucy Crowe
2 - Sarah Connolly
1 - Norma Burrowes
2 - Janet Baker
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 |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this aria | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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