{"id":4331,"date":"2017-04-20T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2017-04-23T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T09:44:49","slug":"claudio-monteverdi-1567-1643-lincoronazione-di-poppea-1643-disprezzata-regina-recitato-of-ottavia-act-i-scene-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/claudio-monteverdi-1567-1643-lincoronazione-di-poppea-1643-disprezzata-regina-recitato-of-ottavia-act-i-scene-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudio Monteverdi (1567 \u2013 1643) – “L’incoronazione di Poppea” (1643) – “Disprezzata Regina” Recitato of Ottavia Act I Scene V"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 \u2013 1643) – “L’incoronazione di Poppea” (1643) – “Disprezzata Regina” Recitato of Ottavia Act I Scene V.<\/p>\n

Anna Caterina Antonacci Soprano
\nAccademia degli Astrusi
\nM.\u00b0 Federico Ferri Conductor.<\/p>\n

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LIVE\u00a0in Bruxelles, May 15, 2014.<\/p>\n

Mauro Valli \u2013 cello
\nGiovanni Valgimigli \u2013 violone
\nStefano Rocco \u2013 theorbo and baroque guitar
\nMaria Christina Cleary \u2013 harp
\nDaniele Proni \u2013 harpsichord and organ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

–<\/p>\n

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Ottavia<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Disprezzata regina,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Del monarca romano afflitta moglie,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Che f\u00f2, ove son, che penso?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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O delle donne miserabil sesso,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Se la natura e\u2019l cielo<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Libere ci produce,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Il matrimonio c\u2019incatena serve;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Se concepiamo l\u2019uomo,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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O delle donne miserabil sesso,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Al nostr\u2019empio tiran formiam le membra,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Allattiamo il carnefice crudele<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Che ci scarna e ci svena,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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E siam costrette per indegna sorte<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A noi medesme partorir la morte.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nerone, empio Nerone,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nerone, \u00f2 Dio, marito<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bestemmiato pur sempre<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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E maledetto dai cordogli miei,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dove, ohim\u00e8, dove sei?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In braccio di Poppea,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tu dimori felice e godi, e intanto<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Il frequente cader de\u2019 pianti miei<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pur v\u00e0 quasi formando<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Un diluvio di specchi, in cui tu miri,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dentro alle tue delitie i miei martiri.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Destin, se stai lass\u00f9,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Giove ascoltami tu,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Se per punir Nerone<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fulmini tu non hai,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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D\u2019impotenza t\u2019accuso,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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D\u2019ingustitia t\u2019incolpo,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ahi, trapasso tropp\u2019oltre e me ne pento,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sopprimo e seppelisco<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In taciturne angoscie il mio lamento.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
–<\/div>\n
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Ottavia<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Despised queen,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tormented wife of the Roman emperor,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What am I doing, where am I, what am I thinking?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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O wretched fate of the fair sex,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If nature and heaven<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Create us free,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Marriage enchains us;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If we conceive a male,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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O wretched fate of the fair sex,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We shape the limbs of our own wicked tyrant,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We nurture the cruel executioner<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Who butchers us and bleeds us<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And we are forced by Fate<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To give birth to our own death.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nerone, wicked Nerone,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nerone, O God, husband<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Blasphemed for ever<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And cursed by my sorrow,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alas, where are you?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You linger in Poppea\u2019s arms<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Happy, enjoying yourself,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While the stream of my tears<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Creates a sort of<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Deluge of mirrors in which you may behold<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My suffering amidst your happiness.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fate, if you are there,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jove, hear me,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If you have no thunderbolts<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To punish Nerone,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I accuse you of impotence,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I blame you for injustice!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alas, I\u2019ve gone too far, and I repent,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I shall suppress and bury<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My lament in silent anguish.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n