Opera title: | Il Trovatore |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Il Trovatore Synopsis |
Libretto: | Il Trovatore Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Manrico |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 3.07 |
| Previous scene: | Di qual tetra luce |
| Next scene: | L'onda de suoni mistici |
One of the great roles of Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969) at the Metropolitan Opera was Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore. He essayed the role at the end of his second season with the Met and sang his 63rd and final troubadour thirty years later during his final season with the company in 1945. Here, Martinelli sings Manrico's love song, "Ah, sì ben mio", from Act III. This rare live recording was made during a performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on March 4, 1939. Gennaro Papi conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
MANRICO
Amor... sublime amore,
In tale istante ti favelli al core.
Ah! sì, ben mio, coll'essere
Io tuo, tu mia consorte,
Avrò più l'alma intrepida,
Il braccio avrò più forte;
Ma pur se nella pagina
De' miei destini è scritto
Ch'io resti fra le vittime
Dal ferro ostil trafitto,
Fra quegli estremi aneliti
A te il pensier verrà
E solo in ciel precederti
La morte a me parrà!
MANRICO
Love ... sublime love,
In that instant you favelli to the core.
Ah! yes, mine, to be
I yours, you my spouse,
I will have the intrepid alma more,
The arm will have stronger;
But even if in the page
De 'my destinies is written
That I remain among the victims
From the pierced hostile iron,
Among those extreme longings
The thought will come to you
And only in heaven it precedes you
Death will seem to me!

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