Opera title: | Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Composer: | Giaochino Rossini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Il Barbiere di Siviglia Synopsis |
Libretto: | Il Barbiere di Siviglia Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Berta |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 2.11a |
Previous scene: | Briconi! Birbanti! |
Next scene: | Sempre gridi e tumulti |
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1996 Remastered Version) : Che vecchio sospettoso! (Berta) · Fedora Barbieri/London Symphony Orchestra/James Levine
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
℗ 1975 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd Digital remastering (p) 1996 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Baritone Vocals: Renato Capecchi
Baritone Vocals: Michael Rippon
Bass: Ruggero Raimondi (Baß)
Boy Soprano: Fedora Barbieri
Choir: John Alldis Choir
Choir: John Alldis
Conductor: James Levine
Featured Vocalist: London Symphony Orchestra
Lead Vocals: Fedora Barbieri
Lead Vocals: James Levine
Mezzo-soprano Vocals: Fedora Barbieri
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra (LSO)
Organ: John Constable
Produced by: Christopher Bishop
Producer: Christopher Bishop
Remastering Engineer: Simon Gibson
Soprano Vocals: Beverly Sills
Tenor Vocals: Joseph Galiano
Tenor Vocals: Nicolai Gedda
Tenor Vocals: Sherrill Milnes
Tonmeister: Robert Gooch
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
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BERTA
Che vecchio sospettoso!
Vada pure
e ci stia finché crepa …
Sempre gridi e tumulti in questa casa;
si litiga, si piange, si minaccia …
Non v'è un'ora di pace
con questo vecchio avaro, brontolone!
Oh, che casa! Oh, che casa in confusione!
BERTA
Il vecchiotto cerca moglie,
vuol marito la ragazza;
questo freme, quella è pazza.
Tutti e due son da legar.
Ma che cosa è questo amore
che fa tutti delirar?
Egli è un male universale,
una smania, un pizzicore …
un solletico, un tormento …
Poverina, anch'io lo sento,
né so come finirà.
Oh! vecchiaia maledetta! …
Son da tutti disprezzata …
E vecchietta disperata.
mi convien così crepar.
BERTA
What a suspicious old man!
Begone and don't come back alive!
Always shouting and clamour in this house...
Arguing...weeping...threatening...
There is not an hour's peace
with this stingy, grumbling old man.
Oh, what a house of confusion!
BERTA
The old man seeks a wife,
and the maiden wants a husband,
the one is frenzied, the other crazy,
both of them need restraining.
What on earth is all this love
which makes everyone go mad?
It is a universal evil,
it is a mania and an itch,
a thing which tickles and torments you.
Unhappy me, I also feel it
and do not know how to escape.
Oh, accursed old maid!
By all I am despised,
an old maid without a hope,
I shall die in desperation.
(Berta goes out.)
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