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Tutto sprezzo che d'Ernani

Opera details:

Opera title:

Ernani

Composer:

Giuseppe Verdi

Language:

Italian

Synopsis:

Ernani Synopsis

Libretto:

Ernani Libretto

Translation(s):

Deutsch

Aria details:

Type:

aria

Role(s):

Elvira

Voice(s):

Soprano

Act:

1.07

Previous scene: Ernani involami
Next scene: Qui mi trasse amor possente

Marcella Sembrich - Ernani, involami... Tutto sprezzo che d'Ernani - 1908

Singer(s): Lillian Nordica Marcella Sembrich

The earlier of Sembrich's recording of this aria—the one already on YouTube—does not include the cabaletta. It's certainly worth a listen; she adds some lovely, non-standard passagework and unwritten ornaments.

Of interest, to me at least, are the two final trills on the tonic and the leading tone, which Lillian Nordica also takes in her recording of "Di tale amor" (previously uploaded on my account). One wonders if this treatment was merely in vogue at the turn of the century or if they (being the same age) had both grown up hearing it used by the great singers of the previous generation such as Tietjens and Parepa-Rosa.

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:

Tutto sprezzo che d'Ernani
non favella a questo core,
non v'ha gemma che in amore
possa l'odio tramutar.
Vola, o tempo, e presto reca
di mia fuga il lieto istante!
Vola, o tempo, al core amante
è supplizio I'indugiar.

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