Opera title: | La Traviata |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | La Traviata Synopsis |
Libretto: | La Traviata Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Giorgio Germont / Violetta Valéry |
Voice(s): | Baritone / Soprano |
Act: | 2.04 |
Previous scene: | Madamigella Valery |
Next scene: | Non sapete quale affetto |
Lisette Oropesa and Brandon Hendrickson sing the act 2 duet, "Pura siccome un angelo Iddio mi diè una figlia", from La Traviata in concert.
Conducted by Joseph Colaneri
GERMONT
Sì.
Pura siccome un angelo
Iddio mi die' una figlia;
Se Alfredo nega riedere
In seno alla famiglia,
L'amato e amante giovane,
Cui sposa andar dovea,
Or si ricusa al vincolo
Che lieti ne rendea
Deh, non mutate in triboli
Le rose dell'amor.
Ai preghi miei resistere
Non voglia il vostro cor.
VIOLETTA
Ah, comprendo dovrò per alcun tempo
Da Alfredo allontanarmi... doloroso
Fora per me... pur...
GERMONT
Non è ciò che chiedo.
VIOLETTA
Cielo, che più cercate?
offersi assai!
GERMONT
Pur non basta
VIOLETTA
Volete che per sempre a lui rinunzi?
GERMONT
È d'uopo!
GERMONT
Yes.
God gave me a daughter
As pure as an angel;
And if Alfredo refuses
To return to the bosom of his family,
The man she loves and who loves her,
The one whose wife she was to be,
Will break the chain
That was to bind them in their happiness.
I pray you not to change the roses of their
Love to flowers of sadness.
Surely your heart will not deny
The prayer I utter now.
VIOLETTA
Ah yes, I understand. If I left
Alfredo for a time …
It would be a sacrifice, but then ...
GERMONT
That's not what I'm asking.
VIOLETTA
Heavens! What more do you expect?
So much I've offered, already!
GERMONT
But not enough.
VIOLETTA
You want me to leave him for ever?
GERMONT
It's necessary.
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