Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) – “Addio Roma, addio Patria, amici addio!”” Recitato\u00a0of Ottavia – “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” (1643) – Act III Scene VI.<\/p>\n
Anna Caterina Antonacci Soprano
\nAccademia degli Astrusi
\nM.\u00b0 Federico Ferri Conductor<\/p>\n
Live at Festival MiTo, September 11th 2011.<\/p>\n
Mauro Valli – cello
\nGiovanni Valgimigli – violone
\nStefano Rocco – theorbo and baroque guitar
\nMaria Christina Cleary – harp
\nDaniele Proni – harpsichord and organ.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
“Addio Roma, addio Patria, amici addio!”<\/p>\n
Addio Roma, addio Patria, amici addio!
\nInnocente da voi partir convengo.
\nVado a patir l’esilio in pianti amari,
\nnavigo disperata i sordi mari.
\nL’aria, che d’ora in ora
\nricever\u00e0 i miei fiati,
\nli porter\u00e0, per nome del cor mio,
\na veder, a baciar le patrie mura,
\ned io, star\u00e0 solinga,
\nalternando le mosse ai pianti, ai passi,
\ninsegnando pietade ai tronchi, e ai sassi.
\nRemigate oggi mai perverse genti,
\nallontanatemi dagli amati lidi.
\nAhi, sacrilego duolo,
\ntu m’interdici il pianto
\nmentre lascio la Patria,
\nn\u00e9 stillar una lacrima poss’io
\nmentre dico ai parenti e a Roma: addio!
\n–
\nFarewell Rome, farewell my country, friends, farewell!
\nInnocent, I must depart from you.
\nI go to suffer exile in bitter tears;
\nI cross the deaf seas in despair.
\nThe air, which hour by hour
\nShall receive my sighs,
\nWill carry them, in my heart\u2019s name,
\nTo see, to kiss the walls of my country;
\nAnd I, I shall remain alone,
\nAlternately weeping and pacing,
\nTeaching pity to the cold stones.
\nRow, now and forever, wicked people,
\nDistance me from these beloved shores.
\nAh, sacrilegious sorrow,
\nYou prevent me from weeping
\nWhen I leave my country,
\nNor can I shed a single tear
\nWhile I say to my family and to Rome: farewell!<\/p>\n