Merce dilette amiche
Opera details:
Opera title: | I Vespri Siciliani |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | I Vespri Siciliani Synopsis |
Libretto: | I Vespri Siciliani Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria,choir |
Role(s): | Elena / Choir |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 5.02 |
| Previous scene: | Si celebri alfine tra canti |
| Next scene: | La brezza aleggia intorno |
Dame Joan Sutherland, A Year Later - Merce dilette amiche, 1975
Singer: Joan SutherlandDame Joan Sutherland sings a wonderful Bolero aria -- "Merce dilette amiche" (no high E) -- from Verdi's opera "I vespri siciliani" on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. Unfortunately, I do not have a date for this performance. If anyone has any idea about the broadcast date, I would appreciate it. Thanks, and enjoy!
Update: Solved! Broadcast in November of 1975. Other guests that night included O.J. Simpson, Walter Matthau, and Bill Murray. Thank you, sutherland9!
Watch videos with other singers performing Merce dilette amiche:
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Sondra Radvanovsky
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Luisa Tetrazzini
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Maria Agresta
1 - Rita Streich
1 - Aleksandra Kurzak
1 - Diana Damrau
1 - Desirée Rancatore
1 - Mirella Freni
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - Virginia Zeani
1 - Natalie Dessay
1 - Elena Moșuc
1 - Irina Lungu
1 - Maria Guleghina
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Miliza Korjus
1 - Cheryl Studer
1 - Martina Arroyo
1 - Rosa Ponselle
1 - Carol Vaness
1 - Carmela Remigio
1 - Anna Aglatova
1 - Daniela Dessì
1 - Rosa Raisa
1 - Nicoletta Panni
1 - Marcella Sembrich
1 - Elena Dan
1 - Roxana Briban
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Celestina Boninsegna
1 - Claudia Muzio
1 - Lucia Aliberti
1 - Sonia Theodoridou
1 - Antonietta Stella
1 - Teresa Żylis-Gara
1 - Beverly Sills
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Raina Kabaivanska
1 - Maria Callas
6 - Enzo Mascherini
1 - Montserrat Caballé
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Anita Cerquetti
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
7 - Boris Christoff
1 - Maria Callas
5 - Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi
6 - Enzo Mascherini
7 - Boris Christoff
Other videos of the same singers performing Merce dilette amiche:
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Aleksandra Kurzak
1 - Maria Agresta
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Agresta
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Guleghina
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Sondra Radvanovsky
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Carmela Remigio
1 - Daniela Dessì
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Elena Moșuc
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Luisa Tetrazzini
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Natalie Dessay
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Martina Arroyo
1 - Desirée Rancatore
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Cheryl Studer
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Miliza Korjus
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Claudia Muzio
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
Le stesse. Elena in veste da sposa scende dalla gradinata del palazzo a diritta. Le giovinette le muovono incontro, offrendole dei fiori, indi Arrigo.ELENA
Mercé, dilette amiche,
Di quei leggiadri fior;
Il caro dono è immagine
Del vostro bel candor!
Oh! fortunato il vincolo
Che mi prepara amor;
Se voi recate pronube
Felici augurii al cor!
Sogno beato, caro delirio,
Per voi del fato l'ira cessò!
L'aura soave che qui respiro
Già tutti i sensi m'inebbriò.
O piaggie di Sicilia,
Risplenda un dì sereno;
Assai vendette orribili
Ti lacerano il seno!
Colma di speme e immemore
Di quanto il cor soffrì,
Il giorno del mio giubilo
Sia di tue glorie il dì,
Sogno beato, caro delirio, ecc., ecc.
CORO
L'affetto che inspiri
Seduce ognicor!
È serto di gloria
Il serto d'amor!
English Libretto or Translation:
The same. Elena in a wedding dress goes down the steps of the building to the right. The young girls move them to meet her, offering her some flowers, then Arrigo.ELENA
Mercé, beloved friends,
Of those graceful flowers;
The dear gift is image
Of your beautiful candor!
Oh! lucky the bond
That prepares me for love;
If you go pronube
Happy birthday to the heart!
Dream of happiness, dear delirium,
For you of fate, wrath ceased!
The gentle aura that I breathe here
Already all the senses drove me.
Or Sicily's peaches,
One day shine bright;
Much horrible vendettas
They tear your breasts!
Full of hope and forgetful
How much the chorus suffered,
The day of my jubilation
Let it be of your glories the day,
Blissful dream, dear delirium, etc., etc.
CHOIR
The love you breathe
Seduce ognicor!
It is full of glory
The serto d'amor!
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