Aprite aprite
Opera details:
Opera title: | Otello |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Otello Synopsis |
Libretto: | Otello Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Recitative details:
Type: | recitative |
Role(s): | Desdemona / Otello / Emilia |
Voice(s): | Soprano / Tenor / Mezzo-Soprano |
Act: | 4.06b |
| Previous scene: | Calma come la tomba |
| Next scene: | Quai grida orrore |
Watch videos with other singers performing Aprite aprite:
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
5 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
5 - John Keyes
5 - Luciano Pavarotti
6 - Alan Opie
6 - Leo Nucci
1 - Krassimira Stoyanova
5 - Juan Francisco Gatell
5 - Michael Spyres
6 - Eric Owens
1 - Maria Guleghina
6 - Renato Bruson
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
5 - Plácido Domingo
1 - Renata Tebaldi
5 - Mario Del Monaco
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Tom Krause
1 - Mirella Freni
5 - Jon Vickers
5 - Ryland Davies
6 - Peter Glossop
1 - Gwyneth Jones
5 - James McCracken
5 - Piero de Palma
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
1 - Anna Tomowa-Sintow
2 - Margarita Lilowa
5 - Plácido Domingo
1 - Miriam Gauci
5 - Nicola Martinucci
6 - Eduard Tumagian
2 - Josephine Veasey
1 - Renata Tebaldi
2 - Ana Raquel Satre
5 - Mario Del Monaco
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Tom Krause
5 - Ramón Vinay
Other videos of the same singers performing Aprite aprite:
1 - Katia Ricciarelli
5 - Plácido Domingo
5 - Plácido Domingo
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
EMILIApicchia di nuovo
Aprite! Aprite!
OTELLO
trabalzando
Chi è là? Chi batte?
EMILIA
Signor mio…ven prego, lasciate
ch'io vi parli…Aprite!
OTELLO
aprendo
Emilia! che avvenne?
EMILIA
entrando
Un gran delitto! Cassio uccise Roderigo.
OTELLO
E Cassio?
EMILIA
Vive.
OTELLO
Cassio vive!
DESDEMONA
dal letto
Ingiustamente…uccisa ingiustamente…
EMILIA
accorrendo al letto
Chi geme là?…Orror!
DESDEMONA
Muoio innocente…
EMILIA
Gran Dio!…Chi fu? chi fu?
DESDEMONA
Nessuno…io stessa…Al mio
Signor mi raccomanda…muoio innocente…
Addio.
muore
OTELLO
O mentitrice! io l'uccisi.
EMILIA
Assassino!
OTELLO
Fu di Cassio la druda. A Jago il chiedi.
EMILIA
A Jago?
OTELLO
A Jago.
EMILIA
Stolto!! E tu il credesti?
OTELLO
fa per avventarsi contro Emilia
Negarlo ardisci?
EMILIA
Non ti temo.
OTELLO
la afferra
Bada!
EMILIA
Olà! Soccorso! Aiuto!
si svincola e corre verso la porta, gridando disperatamente
Otello uccise Desdemona!
English Libretto or Translation:
EMILIA (without)Unlock the door!
OTHELLO (starting)
Who is there? Who knocks?
EMILIA (knocking again)
O, good my lord, I do beseech
that I may speak with you...
Unlock the door!
OTHELLO (opening the door)
Emilia! What’s the matter?
EMILIA (entering)
Yonder’s foul murder done!
Cassio has killed Roderigo!
OTHELLO
And Cassio?
EMILIA
Lives.
OTHELLO
Cassio lives!!
DESDEMONA (from the bed)
Falsely...
falsely killed...
EMILIA (running towards the bed)
What cry is that?...
O horror!
DESDEMONA
A guiltless death I die...
EMILIA
Great God! Who did this deed?
DESDEMONA
Nobody... I myself...
Commend me to my lord...
A guiltless death I die...
Farewell...
(dies)
OTHELLO
O liar!
’Twas I that killed her.
EMILIA
Murderer!
OTHELLO
She was Cassio’s whore.
Ask Iago else.
EMILIA
Iago?
OTHELLO
Iago.
EMILIA
O dolt! And you believed him?
OTHELLO (about to strike Emilia)
Dare you deny it?
EMILIA
I fear you not.
OTHELLO (seizing her)
Take care!
EMILIAHo there! Help, ho! Help!(freeing herself she runs toward the door, crying out)
External links for Aprite aprite
| Sheetmusic for recitative |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this recitative | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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