Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento
Opera details:
Opera title: | Semiramide |
Composer: | Giaochino Rossini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Semiramide Synopsis |
Libretto: | Semiramide Libretto |
Translation(s): | English |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Arsace |
Voice(s): | Contralto |
Act: | 1.12 |
| Previous scene: | Eccomi al fine in Babilonia |
| Next scene: | Oh! come da quel di |
Franco Fagioli - Rossini: Semiramide / Act I / Scene 2, "Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento"
Singer: Franco FagioliPreview, download or stream: Franco Fagioli, Armonia Atenea – Rossini: Semiramide / Act I / Scene 2, "Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento" – Classical Music – Rossini
For his debut album on DG, Franco has recorded an all Rossini album. He has chosen so called "trouser roles" that approach the delightful confusion between voice and gender, particularly in Rossini’s rarely performed serious operas, with many male characters whose substantial roles were written for women and not for castrati. But the castrato voice fascinated Rossini, their "purity and wonderful flexibility; their profoundly penetrating accent".
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Repertoire: Rossini: Semiramide / Act I / Scene 2, "Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento", Rossini
Conductor: George Petrou
Artists: Franco Fagioli, Armonia Atenea
Place: Italy, Venice
Director: Stephan Boehme
Video Producer: Stephan Boehme
Production Company: klang & bilder welten
Watch videos with other singers performing Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento:
5 - Franco Fagioli
2 - Zara Dolukhanova
2 - Elena Cernei
2 - Olga Borodina
2 - Jennifer Larmore
2 - Lucia Valentini Terrani
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Marilyn Horne
5 - Frank Lopardo
6 - Jan-Hendrik Rootering
7 - Samuel Ramey
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
2 - Giulietta Simionato
2 - Vivica Genaux
2 - Ruxandra Donose
2 - Irina Arkhipova
2 - Ann Hallenberg
2 - Daniela Barcellona
2 - Lauris Elms
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Dolora Zajick
Other videos of the same singers performing Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento:
2 - Elena Cernei
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Lucia Valentini Terrani
2 - Marilyn Horne
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Zara Dolukhanova
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
2 - Vivica Genaux
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Vivica Genaux
2 - Elena Cernei
2 - Lucia Valentini Terrani
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Lucia Valentini Terrani
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Elena Cernei
2 - Daniela Barcellona
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Elena Cernei
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
3 - Ewa Podles
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Jennifer Larmore
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Jennifer Larmore
2 - Ebe Stignani
2 - Jennifer Larmore
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
2 - Ann Hallenberg
2 - Elena Cernei
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Olga Borodina
2 - Olga Borodina
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
ARSACEEccomi alfine in Babilonia. È questo
Di Belo il tempio. - Qual silenzio augusto
Più venerando ancor rende il soggiorno
Della divinità ! - Quale nel seno
A me, guerrier, nudrito
Fra l'Orror delle pugne, ora si desta,
Del Nume formidabile all'aspetto,
Insolito terror, sacro rispetto! -
E da me questo Nume
Che può voler? Morendo il genitore
Qui m'inviò: segreto
Cenno di Semiramide mi chiama
Rapido alla sua reggia... ed anelante
Ad Azema, al suo ben l'ardente core
Qui volava sull'ali dell'amore.
Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento
Di mia gloria e di contento,
Che fra' barbari potei
Vita e onore a lei serbar.
L'involava in queste braccia
Al suo vile rapitore;
Io sentìa contro il mio core
Il suo core palpitar.
Schiuse il ciglio, mi guardò...
Mi sorrise... sospirò...
Oh! come da quel dì
Tutto per me cangiò!
Quel guardo mi rapì,
Quest'anima avvampò:
Il Ciel per me s'aprì,
Amore m'animò...
D'Azema e di quel dì
Scordarmi io mai saprò.
Ministri, al gran Pontefice annunziate
Il figlio di Fradate.
English Libretto or Translation:
ArsacesHere I am at last in Babylon. And this
Of Belo the temple. - What an august silence
More venerating still makes the living room
Of the deity! - Which in the breast
To me, guerrier, nudrito
Between the Orror of the fists, now he wakes up,
Del Nume formidable to the appearance,
Unusual terror, sacred respect! -
And this Nume from me
What can he want? Dying the parent
Here he sent me: secret
A note from Semiramus calls me
Quick to his palace ... and yearning
To Azema, to his well-burning core
Here he flew on the wings of love.
Ah! that day every day
Of my glory and of contentment,
That among the barbarians I could
Life and honor to her serbar.
He wrapped it in these arms
To his vile kidnapper;
I felt against my core
His palpitar core.
He opened his eyelash, looked at me ...
He smiled at me ... he sighed ...
Oh! as from that day
Everything for me changed!
That guard kidnapped me,
This soul flared up:
The Ciel opened for me,
Love moved me ...
D'Azema and that day
Forget me I'll never know.
Ministers, to the great Pope announced
The son of Fradate.
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