You love him, seek to set him right
Opera details:
Opera title: | The Rake's Progress |
Composer: | Igor Stravinsky |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | The Rake's Progress Synopsis |
Libretto: | The Rake's Progress Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | choir / Baba the Turk / Anne Trulove / Sellem |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano |
Act: | 3.07 |
| Previous scene: | Now what was that? |
| Next scene: | If boys had wings |
Act III Scene 1: Duet: You love him, seek to set him right… (Baba, Anne, Sellem, Chorus)
Singer(s): Shirley Love Wendy White Jayne WestProvided to YouTube by NAXOS of America
Act III Scene 1: Duet: You love him, seek to set him right… (Baba, Anne, Sellem, Chorus) · Jayne West
Stravinsky, I.: The Rake's Progress (Opera)
â„— 2009 Naxos
Released on: 2009-05-26
Artist: Arthur Woodley
Composer: Chester Kallman
Choir: Gregg Smith Singers
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Artist: Jayne West
Artist: Jeffrey Johnson
Artist: John Cheek
Artist: Jon Garrison
Artist: Melvin Lowery
Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke's
Conductor: Robert Craft
Artist: Shirley Love
Artist: Wendy White
Composer: Wystan Hugh Auden
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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
DuetBABA
(To Anne)
You love him, seek to set him right.
He's but a shuttle-headed lad.
Not quite a gentleman,
nor quite completely vanquished
by the bad.
Who knows what care and love might do?
But good or bad,
I know he still loves you.
ANNE
He loves me still!
Then I alone in weeping doubt
have been untrue.
Oh hope, endear my love.
Atone, grace whatever may ensue. Enlighten,
SELLEM, FIRST GROUP
He loves her.
THE SECOND GROUP
Who?
SELLEM, FIRST GROUP
That isn't known.
THE SECOND GROUP
He loves her still.
SELLEM, FIRST GROUP
The tale is sad, if true.
BABA
So find him and his man beware!
I may have made a bad mistake,
yet I can tell who in that pair
is poisoned victim and who snake!
Then go!
ANNE
But where shall you...?
BABA
My dear, a gifted lady
never need have fear.
I shall go back and grace the stage
where manner rules and wealth attends.
Can I deny my time its rage?
My self-indulgent intermezzo ends.
ANNE
Can I for him all love engage and yet
believe her happy when love ends?
CROWD
She will go back.
Her view is sage. That's life.
We came to buy. See how it ends.
SELLEM
Money farewell. Who'll buy?.
The auction ends.
English Libretto or Translation:
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