Opera title: | La Traviata |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | La Traviata Synopsis |
Libretto: | La Traviata Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Also known as: | Brindisi |
Type: | duet,choir |
Role(s): | Alfredo Germont / Violetta Valéry / Guests |
Voice(s): | Tenor / Soprano |
Act: | 1.03 |
Previous scene: | Dell invito trascorsa e gia l'ora |
Next scene: | Che e cio? non gradireste |
The Brindisi (Libiamo ne' lieti calici) executed by the Italian association IL BEL CANTO with the beautiful performance of the Soprano Lorella Tafuro as Violetta, the Tenor Vencenzo as Alfredo the choir Tripudium and the IL BEL CANTO orchestra during a concert in Maglie Italy. This duet takes part in the first act of the opera La Traviata, at Violetta's house, and it is sung by Alfredo and Violetta
BRINDISI "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" LA TRAVIATA
Libiamo ne'lieti calici (Drinking Song) is the most famous duet from Verdi's La traviata, perhaps one of the most well known fragments of opera around the world, and an obligatory performance (as this opera itself) for any great tenor. The words were written by Francesco Maria Piave. Those who have performed it include Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Enrico Caruso, and many others.
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THE ITALIAN OPERA - IL BEL CANTO
The bel canto opera movement flourished in the early 19th century and is exemplified by the operas of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Pacini, Mercadante and many others. Literally "beautiful singing", bel canto opera derives from the Italian stylistic singing school of the same name. Bel canto lines are typically florid and intricate, requiring supreme agility and pitch control.
The bel canto era style was rapidly popularized by Giuseppe Verdi, beginning with his biblical opera Nabucco. Verdi's operas resonated with the growing spirit of Italian nationalism in the post-Napoleonic era, and he quickly became an icon of the patriotic movement (although his own politics were perhaps not quite so radical). In the early 1850s, Verdi produced his three most popular operas: Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata. But he continued to develop his style, composing perhaps the greatest French Grand opera, Don Carlos, and ending his career with two Shakespeare-inspired works, Otello and Falstaff, which reveal how far Italian opera had grown in sophistication since the early 19th century.
After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared in Italy. This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly. Later Italian composers, such as Berio and Nono, have experimented with modernism
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IL BEL CANTO LIRICO DI ITALIA
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ALFREDO
Libiam ne' lieti calici
Che la bellezza infiora,
E la fuggevol ora
S'inebri a voluttŕ.
Libiam ne' dolci fremiti
Che suscita l'amore,
Poiché quell'occhio al core
indicando Violetta
Onnipotente va.
Libiamo, amor fra i calici
Piů caldi baci avrŕ.
TUTTI
Libiamo, amor fra i calici
Piů caldi baci avrŕ.
VIOLETTA
S'alza
Tra voi saprň dividere
Il tempo mio giocondo;
Tutto č follia nel mondo
Ciň che non č piacer.
Godiam, fugace e rapido
Č il gaudio dell'amore;
Č un fior che nasce e muore,
Né piů si puň goder.
Godiam c'invita un fervido
Accento lusinghier.
TUTTI
Godiam la tazza e il cantico
La notte abbella e il riso;
In questo paradiso
Ne scopra il nuovo dě.
VIOLETTA
ad Alfredo
La vita č nel tripudio.
ALFREDO
a Violetta
Quando non s'ami ancora.
VIOLETTA
ad Alfredo
Nol dite a chi l'ignora.
ALFREDO
a Violetta
Č il mio destin cosě
TUTTI
Godiam la tazza e il cantico
La notte abbella e il riso;
In questo paradiso
Ne scopra il nuovo dě.
ALFREDO
Let's drink from the joyous chalice
Where beauty flowers ...
Let the fleeting hour
To pleasure's intoxication yield.
Let's drink
To love's sweet tremors -
To those eyes
That pierce the heart.
Let's drink to love - to wine
That warms our kisses.
ALL
Ah! Let's drink to love ? to wine
That warms our kisses.
VIOLETTA
rising
With you I would share
My days of happiness;
Everything is folly in this world
That does not give us pleasure.
Let us enjoy life,
For the pleasures of love are swift and fleeting
As a flower that lives and dies
And can be enjoyed no more.
Let's take our pleasure!
While its ardent,
Brilliant summons lures us on.
ALL
Let's take our pleasure
Of wine and
Singing and mirth
Till the new day
Dawns on us in paradise.
VIOLETTA
to Alfredo
Life is just pleasure.
ALFREDO
to Violetta
But if one still waits for love ...
VIOLETTA
to Alfredo
I know nothing of that ? don't tell me …
ALFREDO
to Violetta
But there lies my fate.
ALL
Let's take our pleasure
Of wine and
Singing and mirth,
Till the new day
Dawns on this paradise of ours.
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