Mario del Monaco & Rise Stevens. "Samson and Delilah" Mon Coeur s'ouvre a ta voix

Mario del Monaco- Samson
Rise Stevens - Delilah.
Dir; Fausto Cleva.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and chorus. 1958
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French Text:
DALILA
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix comme s'ouvre les fleurs
Aux baisers de l'aurore!
Mais, ô mon bien-aimé, pour mieux sécher mes pleurs,
Que ta voix parle encore!
Dis-moi qu'à Dalila tu reviens pour jamais!
Redis à ma tendresse
Les serments d'autrefois, ces serments que j'aimais!
Ah! réponds à ma tendresse!
Verse-moi, verse-moi l'ivresse!

SAMSON
Dalila! Dalila! Je t'aime!

DALILA
Ainsi qu'on voit des blés les épis onduler
Sous la brise légère,
Ainsi frémit mon cœur, prêt à se consoler
À ta voix qui m'est chère!
La flèche est moins rapide à porter le trépas,
Que ne l'est ton amante à voler dans tes bras!
Ah! réponds à ma tendresse! etc

SAMSON
Par mes baisers je veux sécher tes larmes
Et de ton cœur éloigner les alarmes.
Dalila! Dalila! Je t'aime!
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English traduction:
DALILA
My heart opens to your voice as the flowers open
The kisses of the morning!
But, O my beloved, better dry my tears,
Your voice speak again!
Tell me that you come back Dalila forever!
Reiterate my affection
Oaths of old, these oaths that I loved!
Ah answer my tenderness!
Pour me, pour me a drink!

SAMSON
Dalila! Dalila! I love you!

DALILA
Thus we see the corn cobs waving
Under the light breeze
So my heart trembled, ready to console
In your voice dear to me!
The arrow is slower to bring the death,
Than is to steal your lover in your arms!
Ah answer my tenderness! etc.

SAMSON
By my kisses I want to dry your tears
And your heart away alarms.
Dalila! Dalila! I love you!

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• Monaco
• Rise
• Stevens
• samson
• and
• Delilah
• Saint-Saens

[federic017]

ottima dalilah e il più grande sansone della storia.

[MsWolts]

Del Monaco riesce a piegare l'immane portata della sua voce in tenerezze sublimi e inaspettate. E il Si bemolle finale è sempre una folgore.

[Maripudelmonaco]

MAGNÍFICA DALILA Y MARIO EL MEJOR SANSON QUE HA EXISTIDO !!!

[federic017]

Ringraziamo questi due artisti e l'autore di questa sublime musica...Del Monaco in quest'opera è più grande che in Otello e Fanciulla del west...saluti e grazie a Marisol

delmonaco........

[jmccracken1963]

As good as this studio recording is, the broadcast performance (4/12/1958) is MUCH better. Stevens is in much richer voice for the matinee, del Monaco is outstanding as Samson, Martial Singher sang his final Met broadcast quite well as the High Priest of Dagon, and Norman Scott (Abimelech) and Giorgio Tozzi (An old Hebrew) contribute POSITIVELY, as does Cleva's conducting (Irving Kolodin be DAMNED!). This recording, by the way, was done for RCA at the tail end of the "Met Record Club" era.

[ShawDAMAN]

Fantastic pair for this opera although MDM attacks that final Bb a bit under pitch as he often did :P

[tomzoricic]

Ultimate Samson!!!