Il suol chi dal cor ti cancello

Great opera voices comparison: Di provenza il mar, il suol from La Traviata composed by G. Verdi.

(00:00) Renato Bruson / Bruno Amaducci 1983
(04:36) Giorgio Zancanaro / Carlo Rizzi 1992
(08:54) Leonard Warren / Fausto Cleva 1957
(13:56) Cornell MacNeil / James Levine 1981
(17:57) Ettore Bastianini / Carlo Maria Giulini 1955

Alfredo's father has convinced Violetta that it is better for everyone if she leaves Alfredo. She begs him to love her and then sneaks out of the house. Later, a servant brings him her farewell letter and he rushes off to find her. Giorgio stops him though and sings this aria to remind him of their home in Provence and to ask him to return with him.

Piano accompaniment:
Lyrics:

Di Provenza il mar, il suol - chi dal cor ti cancello?
Al natio fulgente sol - qual destino ti furò?
Oh, rammenta pur nel duol - ch'ivi gioia a te brillò;
E che pace colà sol - su te splendere ancor può.
Dio mi guidò!
Ah! il tuo vecchio genitor - tu non sai quanto soffrì
Te lontano, di squallor il suo tetto si coprì
Ma se alfin ti trovo ancor, - se in me speme non fallì,
Se la voce dell'onor - in te appien non ammutì,
Dio m'esaudì!

La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play adapted from the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at La Fenice opera house in Venice.

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