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 |
Soprano Roxana Briban - I Vespri Siciliani - Merce, dilette amiche
Singer: Roxana BribanThe great Romanian soprano, Roxana Briban sings the charming aria of Elena, Merce, dilette amiche, from Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani.
The video clip is recorded during an open-air recital, in Bucharest, 2003.
Our beloved soprano past away last year. Let us all remember her as one of the most beautiful and high quality voices Romania ever had. May God rest her soul in peace!
Watch videos with other singers performing Merce dilette amiche:
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Sondra Radvanovsky
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Rita Streich
1 - Maria Agresta
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Desirée Rancatore
1 - Natalie Dessay
1 - Luisa Tetrazzini
1 - Mirella Freni
1 - Virginia Zeani
1 - Aleksandra Kurzak
1 - Elena Moșuc
1 - Maria Guleghina
1 - Miliza Korjus
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Diana Damrau
1 - Cheryl Studer
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - Irina Lungu
1 - Martina Arroyo
1 - Carol Vaness
1 - Margarita Levchuk
1 - Rosa Ponselle
1 - Daniela Dessì
1 - Carmela Remigio
1 - Nicoletta Panni
1 - Anna Aglatova
1 - Marcella Sembrich
1 - Elena Dan
1 - Roxana Briban
1 - Rosa Raisa
1 - Celestina Boninsegna
1 - Sonia Theodoridou
1 - Claudia Muzio
1 - Fidan Gasimova
1 - Antonietta Stella
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Teresa Żylis-Gara
1 - Lucia Aliberti
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Raina Kabaivanska
1 - Beverly Sills
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Leontyne Price
1 - Maria Callas
6 - Enzo Mascherini
1 - Edita Gruberová
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
5 - Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi
6 - Enzo Mascherini
7 - Boris Christoff
1 - Anita Cerquetti
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
7 - Boris Christoff
1 - Montserrat Caballé
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Beverly Sills
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Montserrat Caballé
Other videos of the same singers performing Merce dilette amiche:
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Agresta
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Maria Agresta
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Aleksandra Kurzak
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Cristina Deutekom
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - Maria Guleghina
1 - Natalie Dessay
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Sondra Radvanovsky
1 - Carmela Remigio
1 - Daniela Dessì
1 - Luisa Tetrazzini
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Elena Moșuc
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Anna Netrebko
1 - Leyla Gencer
1 - Montserrat Caballé
1 - Marina Rebeka
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Joan Sutherland
1 - Sondra Radvanovsky
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Renata Scotto
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Natalie Dessay
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Rosa Ponselle
1 - Olga Peretyatko
1 - Daniela Dessì
1 - Sondra Radvanovsky
1 - Miliza Korjus
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Maria Chiara
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Claudia Muzio
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Cheryl Studer
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Anna Moffo
1 - Martina Arroyo
1 - Anita Cerquetti
1 - Miliza Korjus
1 - Anita Cerquetti
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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