Calma come la tomba
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: | 4.06a |
| Previous scene: | Diceste questa sera le vostre |
| Next scene: | Aprite aprite |
Otello: Act IV: Calma come la tomba
Singer(s): Nan Merriman Herva Nelli Arthur Newman Giuseppe Valdengo Ramón Vinay Arthur NewmanProvided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment
Otello: Act IV: Calma come la tomba · Arturo Toscanini · Giuseppe Verdi · NBC Symphony Orchestra · Ramon Vinay · Herva Nelli · Giuseppe Valdengo · Virginio Assandri · Nan Merriman · Nicola Moscona · Arthur Newman
Arturo Toscanini Conducts Verdi
℗ Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Librettist: Arrigo Boito
Producer: John Pfeiffer
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1 - Renata Scotto
2 - Jean Kraft
5 - Frank Little
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5 - Robert Dean Smith
1 - Leonie Rysanek
2 - Miriam Pirazzini
5 - Jon Vickers
6 - Tito Gobbi
2 - Nan Merriman
5 - Ramón Vinay
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
5 - Set Svanholm
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5 - Ramón Vinay
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5 - Paul Franke
6 - Leonard Warren
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5 - Mario Del Monaco
5 - Paul Franke
5 - Paul Franke
6 - Leonard Warren
1 - Herva Nelli
2 - Nan Merriman
5 - Leslie Chabay
5 - Ramón Vinay
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
5 - Mario Del Monaco
6 - Tito Gobbi
1 - Renata Tebaldi
2 - Martha Lipton
5 - James McCracken
5 - Mario Del Monaco
6 - Leonard Warren
1 - Raina Kabaivanska
5 - Jon Vickers
6 - Louis Quilico
6 - Kevin Short
1 - Herva Nelli
2 - Nan Merriman
5 - Leslie Chabay
5 - Ramón Vinay
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Arthur Newman
1 - Elisabeth Rethberg
2 - Thelma Votipka
5 - Giovanni Martinelli
6 - George Cehanovsky
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
Other videos of the same singers performing Calma come la tomba:
6 - Sherrill Milnes
5 - Jon Vickers
1 - Renata Scotto
2 - Jean Kraft
5 - Frank Little
5 - Plácido Domingo
6 - Sherrill Milnes
1 - Herva Nelli
2 - Nan Merriman
5 - Ramón Vinay
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Arthur Newman
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
1 - Raina Kabaivanska
5 - Jon Vickers
6 - Louis Quilico
5 - Ramón Vinay
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
La soffoca. un grido di Desdemona. S'ode bussare alla portaOTELLO
contemplando il corpo di Desdemona inerte
Calma come la tomba.
EMILIA
picchia 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:
(A knocking is heard at the door on the right.)OTHELLO
(contemplating the inert form of Desdemona)
As quiet as the grave.
(further knocking at the door)
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)Othello has killed Desdemona!
External links for Calma come la tomba
| 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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