Pari siamo
Opera details:
Opera title: | Rigoletto |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Rigoletto Synopsis |
Libretto: | Rigoletto Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Rigoletto |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 2.02a |
| Previous scene: | Signor va non ho niente |
| Next scene: | Io la lingua |
Tito Gobbi Sings "Pari Siamo," From Rigoletto
Singer: Tito GobbiThe Italian baritone Tito Gobbi is perhaps best defined as one of the greatest of Italian singing actors. Gobbi used his voice as a principal acting tool and was not afraid to make it coarse or even ugly if it suited the part he was playing. In fact his voice was a beautiful lyric baritone, with a high top, and he did not hurt it with his characterizations, but rather was able to control it to create the desired effect, in much the same way the great Russian bass Chaliapin did. This is especially notable in his portrayal of Rigoletto, for which he was greatly admired in Italy. It is easy to hear in this aria, which is typical.
Watch videos with other singers performing Pari siamo:
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Nicolae Herlea
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Quinn Kelsey
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Carlos Álvarez
6 - Ingvar Wixell
1 - Julia Novikova
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Robert McFerrin
6 - Robert Merrill
5 - Plácido Domingo
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Tito Gobbi
7 - Carlo Colombara
6 - Giorgio Zancanaro
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Juan Pons
6 - Vladimir Stoyanov
6 - Renato Zanelli
6 - Domenico Viglione Borghese
6 - Simon Keenlyside
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
7 - Virgilio Lazzari
6 - George London
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Manuel Ausensi
6 - Bernd Weikl
6 - Giuseppe De Luca
6 - Robert Weede
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Imre Palló
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Carlo Meliciani
6 - Mattia Battistini
6 - Heinrich Schlusnus
1 - Victoria Bezetti
6 - Joseph Shore
6 - Arthur Endrèze
6 - Pasquale Amato
6 - Vladimir Chernov
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Carlo Galeffi
6 - Antonio Scotti
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Rolando Panerai
6 - Marcel Cordes
6 - Christophe Lacassagne
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Nikola Mijailović
6 - Juan Luria
6 - Paolo Silveri
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
6 - Cesare Formichi
6 - Eduard Tumagian
6 - Heinz Imdahl
6 - Sesto Bruscantini
6 - Robert Massard
6 - Georg Ots
6 - Paolo Gavanelli
6 - Riccardo Stracciari
6 - John Forsell
6 - Mario Sammarco
6 - Francesco Maria Bonini
6 - Luigi Piazza
6 - Hugo Hasslo
6 - Anselmo Colzani
1 - Renata Scotto
6 - Ettore Bastianini
7 - Ivo Vinco
1 - Joan Sutherland
6 - Sherrill Milnes
7 - Martti Talvela
6 - Antonio Cotogni
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Robert Merrill
7 - Giorgio Tozzi
1 - Anna Moffo
6 - Robert Merrill
1 - Mariella Devia
6 - Juan Pons
6 - Kostas Paskalis
7 - Tugomir Franc
5 - Giuseppe Di Stefano
6 - Tito Gobbi
7 - Nicola Zaccaria
7 - Plinio Clabassi
1 - Lina Pagliughi
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
6 - Ettore Bastianini
7 - Ivo Vinco
1 - Roberta Peters
5 - Richard Tucker
6 - Bernd Weikl
6 - Ingvar Wixell
7 - Ferruccio Furlanetto
1 - Lina Pagliughi
6 - Luigi Piazza
6 - Giuseppe Danise
7 - Vincenzo Bettoni
1 - Ines Maria Ferraris
6 - Cesare Formichi
6 - Tito Gobbi
7 - Nicola Zaccaria
7 - Plinio Clabassi
6 - Giuseppe Taddei
7 - Giulio Neri
6 - George Cehanovsky
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
Other videos of the same singers performing Pari siamo:
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Vladimir Stoyanov
6 - Robert McFerrin
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Nicolae Herlea
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Antonio Scotti
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
6 - Joseph Shore
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Arthur Endrèze
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Nicolae Herlea
6 - Joseph Shore
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Quinn Kelsey
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Silvano Carroli
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Nicolae Herlea
6 - Rolando Panerai
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
6 - Vladimir Chernov
6 - George London
6 - Carlo Meliciani
6 - Carlo Galeffi
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Giuseppe Valdengo
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Joseph Shore
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Antonio Scotti
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Eduard Tumagian
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Nicolae Herlea
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Bernd Weikl
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Eduard Tumagian
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Aldo Protti
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Paolo Silveri
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Manuel Ausensi
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Heinrich Schlusnus
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Renato Bruson
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Giuseppe De Luca
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
1 - Joan Sutherland
6 - Sherrill Milnes
7 - Martti Talvela
1 - Renata Scotto
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Cornell MacNeil
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Tito Gobbi
7 - Nicola Zaccaria
7 - Plinio Clabassi
6 - Robert Merrill
7 - Giorgio Tozzi
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
No. 4 - Scena e Duetto
RIGOLETTO
guardando dietro a Sparafucile
Pari siamo!…
Io la lingua, egli ha il pugnale.
Uomo son io che ride, ci quel che spegne!
Quel vecchio maledivami…
O uomini! o natura!
Vil scellerato mi faceste voi!…
O rabbia! esser difforme, esser buffone!
Non dover, non poter altro che ridere!
Il retaggio d'ogni uom m'è tolto … il pianto
Questo padrone mio,
Giovin, giocondo, sì possente, bello,
Sonnecchiando mi dice:
Fa' ch'io rida, buffone!
Forzarmi deggio e farlo! Oh dannazione!...
Odio a voi, cortigiani schernitori!
Quanta in mordervi ho gioia!
Se iniquo son, per cagion vostra è solo…
Ma in altr'uomo qui mi cangio...
Quel vecchio maledivami!…Tal pensiero
Perché conturba ognor la mente mia?
Mi coglierà sventura?... Ah no, è follia!
Apre con chiave ed entra nel cortile.
Gilda esce dalla casa e si getta nelle sue braccia.
Figlia!
English Libretto or Translation:
No. 4 - Scena and Duet
RIGOLETTO
his gaze following Sparafucile
We are alike!
I, the tongue; he, the dagger.
I am the man who laughs, he the one who kills.
That old man cursed me!
O men! O nature!
You have made me a vile wretch!
O rage! To be deformed, to be a buffoon!
To must not, to do not other than to laugh!
The refuge of every man is taken from me - tears
This master of mine,
young, smiling, so powerful, handsome,
sleepily says to me:
“Make me laugh, buffoon!”
I must force myself, and to it! O damnation!
I hate you, scorning courtiers!
How in biting you I have joy!
If I am wicked, yours alone is the reason!
But here into another man I change!
That old man cursed me! Such a thought
why does it still disturb my mind?
Will it bring me disaster? Ah no, it is folly!
Translation by: Marc Verzatt
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