Pavarotti - Vesti La Giubba

Luciano Pavarotti performs Ruggero Leoncavallo vesti la giubba from the opera "Pagliacci", undoubtably brilliant.

Italian:
Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio,
non so più quel che dico,
e quel che faccio!
Eppur è d'uopo, sforzati!
Bah! Sei tu forse un uom?
Tu se' Pagliaccio!

Vesti la giubba,
e la faccia infarina.
La gente paga, e rider vuole qua.
E se Arlecchin t'invola Colombina,
ridi, Pagliaccio, e ognun applaudirà!
Tramuta in lazzi lo spasmo ed il pianto
in una smorfia il singhiozzo e 'l dolor, Ah!

Ridi, Pagliaccio,
sul tuo amore infranto!
Ridi del duol, che t'avvelena il cor!

English:
To act! While out of my mind,
I no longer know what I say,
or what I do!
And yet it's necessary... make an effort!
Bah! Are you not a man?
You are Pagliaccio!

Put on your costume,
powder your face.
The people pay to be here, and they want to laugh.
And if Harlequin shall steal your Columbine,
laugh, Pagliaccio, so the crowd will cheer!
Turn your distress and tears into jest,
your pain and sobbing into a funny face - Ah!

Laugh, Pagliaccio,
at your broken love!
Laugh at the grief that poisons your heart!

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[GothicAngel13100]

2:00-2:19 best part

[Dali Ruiz]

Right, that's why he was so famous, I forgot.

[TJ Salango]

He looks like Iron Man.

[Leonardo Rosales]

Legendary

[ingerx]

Arte pura come Michelangelo. Inarrivabile ai mortali.

[Mike van der Zwart]

2:00 - 2:19 is from a Cup a Soup commercial. :3

[Pearlaceous]

God bless you!

[galerius61]

Pavarotti - I read it in an interview after I posted here- said once that this aria was the most moving for him...and it's not hard to believe.

[asls97]

In my short 16 years,I have never heard something more beautiful than this.

[GothicAngel13100]

a few and in some movies

[gynecolog1st]

weakling

[gynecolog1st]

saw that part in a commercial,.didnt ya.