Toh toh poffare il mondo
Opera details:
Opera title: | La Forza del destino |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | La Forza del destino Synopsis |
Libretto: | La Forza del destino Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Fra Melitone |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 3.18 |
| Previous scene: | Nella guerra e la follia |
| Next scene: | Lasciatelo chei vada |
La forza del destino, Atto Terzo: Toh, toh!... Poffare il mondo! (Melitone/Coro/Preziosilla)
Singer(s): Geraint Evans Ruggero Raimondi Derek Hammond-StroudProvided to YouTube by Warner Music Group
La forza del destino, Atto Terzo: Toh, toh!... Poffare il mondo! (Melitone/Coro/Preziosilla) · Biancamaria Casoni/Sir Geraint Evans/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/John McCarthy/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Lamberto Gardelli
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
℗ 1970 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd Digital remastering (p) 1993 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Chorus: Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Performed by: Biancamaria Casoni
Soprano Vocals: Martina Arroyo
Lead Vocals: Bianca Maria Casoni
Tenor Vocals: Carlo Bergonzi
Lead Vocals: Sir Geraint Evans
Bass-baritone Vocals: Sir Geraint Evans
Lead Vocals: Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Bass: Ruggero Raimondi (Baß)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals: Biancamaria Casoni
Lead Vocals: John McCarthy
Bass: Geraint Evans (Baß)
Lead Vocals: ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Bass: Antonio Zerbini (Baß)
Lead Vocals: Lamberto Gardelli
Mezzo-soprano Vocals: Mila Cova
Tenor Vocals: Florindo Andreolli
Bass: Virgilio Carbonari (Baß)
Tenor Vocals: Derek Hammond-Stroud
Choir: Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Choir: John McCarthy
Tonmeister: Allen Stagg
Performance: Bianca Maria Casoni
Musicians, Organ: David Bell (1.Cd, [22])
Tonmeister: Stuart Eltham
Assistant: Bruno Pizzi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave
Director: Gwyn Morris
Chorus: John McCarthy
Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli
Producer: Ronald Kinloch Anderson
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Remastering Engineer: Simon Gibson
Bass- Baritone: Sir Geraint Evans
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
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Watch videos with other singers performing Toh toh poffare il mondo:
5 - Richard Tucker
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
7 - Fernando Corena
6 - Gabriel Bacquier
6 - Sesto Bruscantini
7 - Ezio Flagello
6 - Saturno Meletti
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Juan Pons
7 - Melchiorre Luise
7 - Salvatore Baccaloni
7 - Owen Brannigan
7 - Plinio Clabassi
6 - Nicola Alaimo
6 - Saturno Meletti
7 - Tancredi Pasero
6 - Derek Hammond-Stroud
6 - Geraint Evans
6 - Ruggero Raimondi
1 - Maria Caniglia
2 - Ebe Stignani
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Renato Capecchi
7 - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
7 - Plinio Clabassi
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Renato Capecchi
7 - Boris Christoff
6 - Domenico Trimarchi
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
7 - Ezio Pinza
7 - Salvatore Baccaloni
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Renato Capecchi
7 - Cesare Siepi
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
7 - Tancredi Pasero
Other videos of the same singers performing Toh toh poffare il mondo:
5 - Richard Tucker
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
5 - Richard Tucker
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
7 - Fernando Corena
7 - Fernando Corena
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Renato Capecchi
7 - Fernando Corena
6 - Saturno Meletti
6 - Gabriel Bacquier
6 - Saturno Meletti
7 - Fernando Corena
7 - Fernando Corena
7 - Salvatore Baccaloni
7 - Owen Brannigan
6 - Saturno Meletti
6 - Juan Pons
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Saturno Meletti
6 - Renato Capecchi
7 - Fernando Corena
6 - Juan Pons
7 - Fernando Corena
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Saturno Meletti
6 - Gabriel Bacquier
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Renato Capecchi
7 - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
7 - Plinio Clabassi
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
SCENA XIVDetti e Fra Melitone che, preso nel vortice della danza, è per un momento costretto a ballare con le vivandiere. Finalmente, riuscito a fermarsi, esclama:
MELITONE
Toh! Toh! Poffare il mondo! Che tempone!
Corre ben l'avventura! Anch'io ci sono.
Venni di Spagna a medicar ferite,
ed alme a mendicar.
Che vedo? È questo un campo di Cristiani, o siete Turchi?
Dove s'è visto berteggiar la santa
domenica così?...Ben più faccenda
le bottiglie vi dan che le battaglie!
E invece di vestir cenere e sacco
qui si tresca con Venere, con Bacco?
Il mondo è fatto una casa di pianto;
ogni convento ora è covo del vento! I santuari
spelonche diventar di sanguinari;
perfino i tabernacoli di Cristo
fatti son ricettacoli del tristo.
Tutto va a soqquadro.
E la ragion? La ragion?
Pro peccata vestra: pei vostri peccati.
SOLDATI
Ah, frate, frate!
MELITONE
Voi le feste calpestate,
Rubate, bestemmiate …
SOLDATI ITALIANI
Togone infame!
SOLDATI SPAGNUOLI
Segui pur, padruccio.
MELITONE
E membri e capi siete d'una stampa:
Tutti eretici.
Tutti, tutti cloaca di peccati,
E finché il mondo
Puzzi di tal pece
Non isperi la terra alcuna pace.
SOLDATI ITALIANI
serrandolo intorno
Dàlli! Dàlli!
SOLDATI SPAGNUOLI
difendendolo
Scappa! Scappa!
SOLDATI ITALIANI
Dàlli! Dàlli sulla cappa!
English Libretto or Translation:
SermonEnter Fra Melitone, who is caught up in the whirl of the dance and for a moment is constrained to dance with the vivandières; finally, managing to extricate himself, he exclaims:
MELITONE
Whew! Good gracious, what a world! What are things coming to?
A fine to-do! And here I am;
I came from Spain to heal wounds
and appeal for souls. What do I see? Is this
a Christian camp, or are you Turks?
Where was such derision of the holy Sabbath
ever seen? You're more concerned
with bottles than with battles,
and instead of donning sackcloth and ashes,
here you're involved with Venus and Bacchus.
The world has become a vale of tears;
every monastery
now is a den of empty air! Sanctuaries
have become the lairs of the sanguinary;
even Christ's tabernacles
have been made to receive villains.
Everything's topsy‑turvy. And why?
Pro peccata vestra, because of your
sins.
ITALIAN SOLDIERS
Oh, brother, brother!
MELITONE
You profane the feast days,
you rob, you blaspheme …
ITALIAN SOLDIERS
You villain in monk's attire!
SPANISH SOLDIERS
Go on, old father!
MELITONE
Limbs and head, you're all alike,
all heretics,
all sewers of iniquity,
and so long as the world stinks of such pitch,
let the earth not hope for any peace.
With such pitch there's no peace …
ITALIAN SOLDIERS
crowding round him
Let him have it!
SPANISH SOLDIERS
defending him
Run away, run away!
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