Commencement 2011 - Donizetti : "Quel guardo, il cavaliere...So anc'io la virtù magica"

CIM Commencement 2011
"Quel guardo, il cavaliere...So ancho'io la virtù magica" From DON PASQUALE (1843)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini (1807-1881)

Saturday, May 14, 2011
Kulas Hall
Megan Crews, Soprano
Eri Nakamura, Piano

Act I, Scene 2: Norina
Synopsis: Norina is reading a novel about love. She reads a passage aloud, snickering a bit, for she knows and expounds upon how to charm a man.

"Quel guardo il cavaliere
in mezzo al cor trafisse;
piegò il ginocchio e disse:
Son vostro cavalier.
E tanto era in quel guardo
sapor di paradiso,
che il cavalier Riccardo,
tutto d'amor conquiso,
giurò che ad altra mai non vogleria il pensier."
Ah, ah! Ah, ah!

So anch'io la virtù magica
d'un guardo a tempo e loco,
so anch'io come si bruciano
i cori a lento fuoco;
d'un breve sorrisetto
conosco anch'io l'effetto
di menzognera lagrima,
d'un subito languor.
Conosco i mille modi
dell'amorose frodi,
i vezzi e l'arti facile
per adescare un cor.
D'un breve sorrisesetto
conosco anch'io l'effetto
conosco, conosco,
d'un subito languor
so anch'io la virtù magica
per inspirare amor,
conosco l'effetto, ah! sì,
ah! sì, per inspirare amor.
Ho testa bizzarra,
son pronto, vivace,
brillare mi piace,
mi piace scherzar.
Se monto in furore
di rado sto al segno,
ma in riso lo sdegno
fo presto a cangiar.
Ho testa bizzarra,
ma core eccellente.
Ah!

So anch'io come si bruciano
i cor a lento fuoco:
d'un breve sorrisetto
conosco anch'io l'effetto, ecc.
Ho testa bizzarra,
son pronto e vivace,
brillare mi piace,
mi piace scherzar, ah!
mi piace, miace scherzar!
Ho testa vivace,
mi pace scherzar, ecc.

TRANSLATION:

"That glance struck the knight
straight to the heart;
he fell on one knee and said:
'I am your knight!
And there was such a savor
of paradise in that glance
that the knight Richard,
quite vanquished by love,
swore he would never give a thought to any other fair'."
Ha ha! Ha ha!

I, too, know the magic power
of a glance at the right time and place,
I know, too, how hearts
can be made to smolder slowly;
and, too, I know the effect
of a fleeting smile,
an artful tear,
a sudden languor.
I know the thousand modes
of amorous fraud,
the knacks and easy artifices
for capturing a heart.
I, too, know the effect
of a fleeting smile,
oh, I know!
Of a sudden languor
I know the magic power
to inspire love,
I know its effect, oh, yes,
oh, yes, for inspiring love.
My head is full of fantasy,
I'm alert and vivacious,
I like to shine,
I like to jest.
If I fly into a rage
there's seldom any holding me,
but my anger soon
converts to laughter.
My head is full of fantasy,
but I've a good heart.
Ah!

I, too, know how to make hearts
slowly smolder;
of a fleeting smile
I know, too, the fatal effect, etc.
My head is full of fantasy,
I'm alert and vivacious,
and love to shine,
I like a joke! oh!
how I like a good joke!
My mind is full of merriment
I'm very fond of fun.

Recorded by Recording Services at the Cleveland Institute of Music, ©℗ 2011 All Rights Reserved

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[8967676tm]

Wonderful:), Thank you.

[cherryfoutz]

Meg! You're stunning.



[durdle1701]

Wow!

[FERENCEFF]

A rising star is heard from!