Credo in un Dio crudel
Opera details:
Opera title: | Otello |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Otello Synopsis |
Libretto: | Otello Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Iago |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 2.03 |
| Previous scene: | Vanne la tua meta gia vedo |
| Next scene: | Eccola Cassio a te |
Michael Davidson - Credo in un Dio Crudel
Singer(s): Antonio Cotogni Titta RuffoIago's Credo from Otello by Giuseppe Verdi.
Resume of Michael Davidson, baritone
Born in Long Beach, California, Michael Davidson studied voice with the Bolshoi's Verdi baritone Vladimir Dubinsky (a student of Antonio Cotogni's), while Hugo Strelitzer and Herbert Weisskopf were his coaches. Michael gave his European debut at the Concertgebouw presenting a variety of Verdi arias, later he returned there to sing the title-roles in Leoncavallo's Edipo Re (a role concipated for Titta Ruffo) and Dallapiccola's Il Prigionero. Further engagements include the Royal Opera Stockholm, National Theater Mannheim, Royal Opera Antwerp, Vancouver Opera, the Staatsopern in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart and the Gran Teatro de Liceu. Additionally the operas in Cologne, Karlsruhe, Portland, Hannover, Basel, Wuppertal, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Dortmund and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg.
Among his stage-partners have been Luciano Pavarotti (Rigoletto), Mirella Freni (La Boheme), Raina Kabaivanska (Madama Butterfly), Lucia Popp (Der Rosenkavalier), Eva Marton (Tosca), Montserrat Caballe (Aida), Martina Arroyo (Aida), Tatjana Troyanos (Carmen), Nadine Connor (La Traviata), Maria Chiara (Otello), Anton Dermota (Palestrina), Ileana Cotrubas (Rosenkavalier), Fiorenza Cossotto (Il Trovatore), Agnes Baltsa (Rosenkavalier), Diana Damrau (Hänsel und Gretel, Rigoletto, Der Freischütz) and Waltraud Meier (Cardillac, Carmen, Il Trovatore, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto). Michael Davidson has appeared in concerts with Mario del Monaco, Erika Köth and Renee Kollo and with such conductors as Giuseppe Patane, Alberto Erede, Kees Bakels, Hans Wallat, Horst Stein, Donald Runnicles and Nello Santi. Mr. Davidson also performed the King in Die Kluge under the direction of the composer Carl Orff. For his artistic accomplishments he has been awarded the title of Kammersänger. Michael Davidson retired from the stage in 1999 as Tonio (I Pagliacci), over 40 years after his debut. His son Robert is now an aspiring young baritone.
Throughout his career Mr. Davidson's repertoire has had a particular focus on the works of Giuseppe Verdi, singing the lead baritone roles in Otello, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, La Traviata, Falstaff, Aida, Attila, Don Carlo and I Masnadieri and the title-roles of Rigoletto, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, and Nabucco.
He however also frequently portrayed such roles as the four demons (Les Contes D'Hoffmann), Scarpia (Tosca), Michele (Il Tabarro), Rance (La Fanciulla del West), Marcello (La Boheme), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Tonio (I Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Barnaba (La Gioconda), Escamillo (Carmen), Amfortas (Parsifal), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), the High Priest of Dagon (Samson e Dalilah), Valentin (Faust), Dunois (Joan of Arc), Gerard (Andrea Chenier), Sebastiano (Tiefland), the count in Capriccio as well as the title-roles in Gianni Schicci, Edipo Re, Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo Tell and Cardillac.
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Watch videos with other singers performing Credo in un Dio crudel:
6 - Bryn Terfel
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Justino Díaz
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Thomas Hampson
6 - George London
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Falk Struckmann
6 - Renato Bruson
1 - Renata Tebaldi
6 - Giovanni Meoni
6 - Ludovic Tézier
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - John Reardon
7 - Carlo Colombara
6 - Rolando Panerai
6 - Umberto Urbano
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Muslim Magomayev
6 - Sesto Bruscantini
6 - Nikola Mijailović
6 - Simon Estes
6 - Antonio Cotogni
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Riccardo Stracciari
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Mario Zanasi
6 - Kostas Paskalis
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
6 - Cesare Formichi
6 - Ambrogio Maestri
6 - Norman Treigle
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Frank Guarrera
6 - Sergei Leiferkus
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Peter Glossop
6 - Eugenio Giraldoni
6 - Gabriel Bacquier
6 - Eric Owens
6 - Frank Valentino
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
6 - Antonio Magini-Coletti
6 - John Charles Thomas
6 - Otakar Kraus
6 - Sigurd Björling
6 - Bernd Weikl
6 - Robert Weede
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Josef Metternich
6 - Antonio Cotogni
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Domenico Viglione Borghese
6 - Eugenio Giraldoni
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Victor Maurel
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Tito Gobbi
7 - Plinio Clabassi
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Renato Bruson
7 - Roberto Scandiuzzi
6 - Leonard Warren
7 - Nicola Moscona
6 - Giuseppe Modesti
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
Other videos of the same singers performing Credo in un Dio crudel:
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Justino Díaz
6 - George London
6 - Justino Díaz
6 - Bryn Terfel
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Giovanni Meoni
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Justino Díaz
6 - Sergei Leiferkus
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Eugenio Giraldoni
6 - Justino Díaz
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Simon Estes
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Rolando Panerai
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Peter Glossop
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Eugenio Giraldoni
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
6 - George London
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Frank Guarrera
6 - Justino Díaz
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
6 - Renato Bruson
7 - Carlo Colombara
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Eugenio Giraldoni
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Eugenio Giraldoni
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Gino Bechi
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
JAGO
allontanandosi dal verone seza più guardar Cassio che sarà scomparso fra gli alberi
Credo in un Dio crudel che m'ha creato
simile a sè e che nell'ira io nomo.
Dalla viltà d'un germe o d'un atòmo
vile son nato.
Son scellerato
perchè son uomo;
e sento il fango originario in me.
Sì! questa è la mia fe'!
Credo con fermo cuor, siccome crede
la vedovella al tempio,
che il mal ch'io penso e che da me procede,
per il mio destino adempio.
Credo che il guisto è un istrion beffardo,
e nel viso e nel cuor,
che tutto è in lui bugiardo:
lagrima, bacio, sguardo,
sacrificio ed onor.
E credo l'uom gioco d'iniqua sorte
dal germe della culla
al verme dell'avel.
Vien dopo tanta irrision la Morte.
E poi? E poi? La Morte è il Nulla.
è vecchia fola il Ciel.
Si vede passare nel giardino Desdemona con Emilia. Jago si slacia al verone, al di là del quale è appostato
English Libretto or Translation:
IAGO
(walking away from the terrace without another glance
at Cassio, who has now vanished among the trees)
I believe in a cruel God
who created me in his image
and who in fury I name.
From the very vileness of a germ
or an atom, vile was I born.
I am a wretch because I am a man,
and I feel within me the primeval slime.
Yes! This is my creed!
I believe with a heart as steadfast
as that of the widow in church,
that the evil I think
and that which I perform
I think and do by destiny’s decree.
I believe the just man to be a mocking actor
in face and heart;
that all his being is a lie,
tear, kiss, glance,
sacrifice and honour.
And I believe man the sport of evil fate
from the germ of the cradle
to the worm of the grave.
After all this mockery then comes Death.
And then?... And then?
Death is nothingness,
heaven an old wives’ tale.
(Desdemona appears, walking in the garden with Emilia.
Iago darts to the terrace, on the other side of which
Cassio is standing.)
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Titta Ruffo
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