Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
La clemenza di Tito (1752)
Dramma per musica in 3 acts
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Sesto's aria (Act II)
PUBLIO
[...] Vieni.
VITELLIA
(Oh colpo fatale...
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
La clemenza di Tito (1752) Dramma per musica in 3 acts
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Sesto's aria (Act II)
PUBLIO [...] Vieni.
VITELLIA (Oh colpo fatale!)
SESTO Al fin, tiranna...
PUBLIO Sesto, partir conviene. È già raccolto per udirti il senato, e non poss'io differir di condurti.
SESTO Ingrata, addio!
Se mai senti spirarti sul volto lieve fiato che lento s'aggiri, di': «Son questi gli estremi sospiri del mio fido, che muore per me.»
Al mio spirto, dal seno disciolto, la memoria di tanti martìri sarà dolce con questa mercé.
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZo4WA... Sometimes with live recordings higher sound quality is not the best option, the background noise may benefit more than the music. So choose wisely.
Gluck caused some sort of scandalous sensation in Naples with this haunting and disturbing aria. Should one really write music like this?
Caffarelli was Sesto in Naples in 1752.
Later Gluck recycled this music in his 'Iphigénie en Tauride' where it became the aria 'O malheureuse Iphigénie'
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interesting to compare the 2 versions