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Son io mio Carlo

Opera details:

Opera title:

Don Carlo

Composer:

Giuseppe Verdi

Language:

Italian

Synopsis:

Don Carlo Synopsis

Libretto:

Don Carlo Libretto

Translation(s):

English Deutsch

Recitative details:

Type:

recitative

Role(s):

Rodrigue / Don Carlo

Voice(s):

Baritone / Tenor

Act:

3.06

Previous scene: O mia Regina io t'immolai
Next scene: Per me giunto e il di supremo

Verdi - Don Carlo - Leo Nucci 'Per me giunto', 'O Carlo, ascolta' - James Allen Gähres, cond. (live)

Singer: Leo Nucci

LEO NUCCI sings Rodrigo's aria 'Per me giunto è il dì supremo' - 'O Carlo, ascolta' from Act Four of the opera 'Don Carlos' by Giuseppe Verdi (live).

James Allen Gähres, conductor
Leo Nucci, baritone

Ulm Philharmonic (Philharmoniker Ulm)

Live recorded during open public concert.
Ulm, Germany

Verdi - Un ballo in maschera - LEO NUCCI 'Alzati, là tuo figlio' - 'Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima' - James A. Gähres, cond. (live):
Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci - LEO NUCCI 'Si può?' - James Allen Gähres, cond. (live):
Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia - LEO NUCCI 'Largo al factotum', James Allen Gähres, cond. (live):
Lyics
Per me giunto è il dì supremo,
no, mai più ci rivedrem;
ci congiunga Iddio nel ciel,
Ei che premia i suoi fedel.
Sul tuo ciglio il pianto io miro
lagrimar così, perchè?
No, fa cor, l’estremo spiro
lieto è a chi morrà per te.
No, fa cor, ecc...

O Carlo, ascolta.. La madre t’aspetta
a San Giusto doman tutto ella sa…
Ah! la terra mi manca.. Carlo mio,
a me porgi la man!..

Io morrò, ma lieto in core,
che potei così serbar
alla Spagna un salvatore!
Ah!.. di me.. non ti scordar!

Regnare tu dovevi,
ed io morir per te.
Ah! la terra mi manca..
la mano a me... a me.
Ah! salva la Fiandra...
Carlo, addio! Ah!…

Schiller's Don Carlos was first suggested to Verdi in 1850 by the Paris Opéra. Verdi rejected the idea, but continued negotiations led to the composition and production of Les vêpres siciliennes in 1855. When the new director of the Paris Opéra, Auguste Perrin, approached Verdi in 1865 concerning a new work for Napoleon III's Universal Exhibition of 1867, Verdi had become tired of the intolerance of Italian theatergoers. Paris seemed to offer more creative potential, a stable company of singers and players, and a large budget. Verdi accepted Perrin's proposition, hoping to score a major success in grand opera.

After considering several librettos, Verdi decided on a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle that adapted the dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien, by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). However, Verdi felt that the story lacked the spectacle necessary for grand opera, and suggested the addition of the immense and colorful coronation scene in Act Three. No one has yet successfully explained why Philip should be crowned in the middle of his reign.

Such additions made the work run beyond the maximum time allowed by the Opéra, and numerous cuts were made during the eight months of rehearsals. (These sections remained unknown until 1969). Finally, the original, five-act, French version of Don Carlos was performed at the Académie Impériale de Musique (Opéra Garnier) in Paris on March 11, 1867. A revised version in Italian was first staged on January 10, 1884, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Throughout the composition process, Verdi shaped the libretto to his liking, suggesting meters and occasionally writing lines and drafting scenes such the final one, in which Elizabeth makes her fateful decision. He also added the Philip-Inquisitor duet that is part of Schiller's play. In general the work, especially through the character of the Marquis de Posa, advocates freedom of thought; Verdi may have been reacting in part to Pope Pius IX's 'Syllabus of Errors' of 1864, which denounces this very idea.

Conflicts of a political sort abound in Don Carlos, in which the titular hero is in love with Elizabeth de Valois, who has become the wife of his father, King Philip II, as the result of a political marriage. Furthermore, Rodrigue, the Marquis de Posa, Don Carlos' best friend, is wanted by the Grand Inquisitor because he is a "freethinker." Philip discovers his wife's infidelity and must decide what to do about his son while the Grand Inquisitor asserts his power over him. According to Verdi, the climax of the opera is the auto-da-fé scene in Act Three.

The revised version sets an Italian translation by Angelo Zanardini of the revised libretto by Camille du Locle. Verdi and Zanardini dropped the entire first act, placing all of the action in Spain. One problem that results is that when we hear the "love theme" for Don Carlos and Elizabeth, returning in leitmotiv fashion, we have no context from which to make sense of it; it originally appeared in the abandoned first act. Also, the opening Prelude and Introduction of the original Act One provide important links to the beginning of Act Four.

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:


PARTE SECONDA
La prigione di Don Carlo. Un oscuro sotterraneo, nel quale sono stati gettati in fretta alcune suppellettili della Corte. In fondo cancello di ferro che separa la prigione da una corte che la domina e nella quale si veggono le guardie andare e venire. Una scalinata vi conduce da piani superiori dell'edifizio.

SCENA PRIMA
Don Carlo e Rodrigo

Don Carlo è assiso, col capo nelle mani assorto nei suoi pensieri. Rodrigo entra, parla sottovoce ad alcuni uffiziali che si allontanano immediatamente. Egli contempla Don Carlo con tristezza. Questi ad un movimento di Rodrigo si scuote.

RODRIGO
Son io, mio Carlo.

DON CARLO
O Rodrigo, a te son
Ben grato di venir di Carlo alla prigion.

RODRIGO
Mio Carlo!

DON CARLO
Ben tu 'l sai; m'abbandonò il vigor!
D'Isabella l'amor mi tortura e m'uccide...
No, valor più non ho pei viventi! Ma tu,
Tu puoi salvarli ancor; oppressi non fien più.

RODRIGO
Ah! noto appien ti sia l'affetto mio!
Uscir tu dei da quest'orrendo avel.
Felice ancora son se abbracciar te poss'io!
Io ti salvai!

DON CARLO
Che di'?

English Libretto or Translation:


SECOND PART
Don Carlo's prison. A dark basement, in which some furnishings of the Court were hurriedly tossed. At the end of the iron gate that separates the prison from a court that dominates it and in which the guards come and go. A staircase leads you from upper floors of the building.

FIRST SCENE
Don Carlo and Rodrigo

Don Carlo is seated, with his head in his hands absorbed in his thoughts. Rodrigo enters, speaks in a whisper to some officers who leave immediately. He contemplates Don Carlo with sadness. These to a movement of Rodrigo shakes.

RODRIGO
It's me, my Carlo.

DON CARLO
O Rodrigo, to you
Well grateful to be of Charles at the prison.

RODRIGO
My Carlo!

DON CARLO
Well you know it; the vigor left me!
D'Isabella love tortures me and kills me ...
No, I do not have more living peers! But you,
You can save them still; oppressed no longer.

RODRIGO
Ah! known appien you are my affection!
Get out of this horrendous avel.
Happy again, if I embrace you, I can!
I saved you!

DON CARLO
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