Patria oppressa
Opera details:
Opera title: | Macbeth |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Macbeth Synopsis |
Libretto: | Macbeth Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Choir details:
Type: | choir |
Role(s): | Scottish refugees |
Voice(s): | n/a |
Act: | 4.01 |
| Previous scene: | Ora di morte e di vendetta |
| Next scene: | O figli o figli miei |
Patria Oppressa - Macbeth, Maria Callas
Singer: Maria CallasGiuseppe Verdi MACBETH
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Victor De Sabata
Milano 1952
Enzo Mascherini
Maria Callas
Italo Tajo
Gino Penno
ARKADIA
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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
N. 12 - CoroSCENA I
Luogo deserto ai confini della Scozia e dell'Inghilterra. In distanza la foresta di Birnam.
Profughi scozzesi, Uomini, Donne, Fanciulli. Macduff in disparte, addolorato.
CORO
Patria oppressa! il dolce nome
No, di madre aver non puoi,
Or che tutta a figli tuoi
Sei conversa in un avel.
D'orfanelli e di piangenti
Chi lo sposo e chi la prole
Al venir del nuovo Sole
S'alza un grido e fere il Ciel.
A quel grido il Ciel risponde
Quasi voglia impietosito
Propagar per l'infinito,
Patria oppressa, il tuo dolor.
Suona a morto ognor la squilla,
Ma nessuno audace รจ tanto
Che pur doni un vano pianto
A chi soffre ed a chi muor.
English Libretto or Translation:
SCENE ONEA deserted p1ace on the border between Scotland and England. In the distance is Birnam wood. Scottish refugees - men, women and children. Macduff stands sorrowfully apart from them.
CHORUS
Oppressed land of ours! You cannot have
the sweet name of mother
now that you have become a tomb
for your sons.
From orphans, from those who mourne,
some for husbands, some for children,
at each new dawn a cry goes up
to outrage heaven.
To that cry heaven replies
as if moved to pity,
oppressed land, it would
proclaim your grief for ever.
The bell tolls constantly for death
but no-one is so bold
as to shed a vain tear
for the suffering and dying.
Oppressed land of ours!
My homeland, oh,my homeland!
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