{"id":4483,"date":"2017-10-03T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2017-10-03T17:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:01:24","slug":"maria-callas-care-compagne-come-per-me-sereno-sovra-il-sen-la-man-mi-posa-cavatina-of-amina-la-sonnambula-1831-i-act-ii-scene-vincenzo-bellini-1801-1835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luca-casagrande.com\/blog\/maria-callas-care-compagne-come-per-me-sereno-sovra-il-sen-la-man-mi-posa-cavatina-of-amina-la-sonnambula-1831-i-act-ii-scene-vincenzo-bellini-1801-1835\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Callas – “Care Compagne … Come per me sereno … Sovra il sen la man mi posa” Cavatina of Amina – “La sonnambula” (1831) I Act II Scene – Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Callas – “Care Compagne … Come per me sereno … Sovra il sen la man mi posa” Cavatina of Amina – “La sonnambula” (1831) I Act II Scene – Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835).
\nNOTE: Callas begins the scene almost behind the scenes, so the sound initially comes from afar. Then Callas moves to center stage.
\n–
\nBJR LIVE Recording – “Vincenzo Bellini – La sonnambula” – \u2117 1980
\nRecording of a performance in K\u00f6ln (D) by the La Scala company (July 4, 1957.
\n–
\nConductor M.\u00b0 Antonino Votto
\nOrchestra – Teatro alla Scala
\nChorus – Teatro alla Scala
\nCast:
\nAmina – Maria Callas
\nElvino – Nicola Monti
\nRodolfo – Nicola Zaccaria
\nLisa – Mariella Angioletti
\nAlessio – Dino Mantovani
\nNotaro – Franco Ricciardi
\nTeresa – Fiorenza Cossotto.
\n–
\n“Care compagne” – “La sonnambula”
\nLyrics by Felice Romani
\nMusic by Vincenzo Bellini.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

AMINA
\nCare compagne, e voi
\nteneri amici, che alla gioia mia
\ntanta parte prendete, oh come dolci
\nscendon d’Amina al core
\ni canti che v’inspira il vostro amore!<\/p>\n

CORO
\nVivi felice! \u00e8 questo
\nil comun voto, o Amina.<\/p>\n

AMINA
\nA te diletta,
\ntenera madre, che a s\u00ec lieto giorno
\nme orfanella serbasti,
\na te favelli questo,
\ndal cor pi\u00f9 che dal ciglio espresso,
\ndolce pianto di gioia,
\ne questo amplesso.
\nCompagne…teneri amici…
\nah madre, ah qual gioia!
\nCome per me sereno
\noggi rinacque il d\u00ec!
\nCome il terren fior\u00ec
\npi\u00f9 bello e ameno!
\nMai di pi\u00f9 lieto aspetto
\nnatura non brill\u00f2:
\namor la color\u00f2
\ndel mio diletto.<\/p>\n

TUTTI
\nSempre, o felice Amina,
\nsempre per te cos\u00ec
\ninfiori il cielo i d\u00ec
\nche ti destina.
\n(Amina abbraccia Teresa e prendendole una mano, se
\nl’avvicina al core.)<\/p>\n

AMINA
\nSovra il sen la man mi posa,
\npalpitar, balzar lo senti;
\negli \u00e8 il cor che i suoi contenti
\nnon ha forza a sostener.<\/p>\n

TUTTI
\nDi tua sorte avventurosa
\nteco esulta il cor materno:
\nnon potea favor superno
\nriserbarlo a ugual piacer.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

AMINA
\nDear friends, beloved companions
\nof my girlhood, who share
\nso much in my joy, how sweet
\nto my heart is the song
\nyour love inspires!<\/p>\n

CHORUS
\nMay you be happy, Amina
\nthis is everyone’s wish<\/p>\n

AMINA
\nFor you, my beloved,
\ntender mother, who saved me,
\nan orphan, for this happy day,
\nlet my joy speak,
\nand my tears that come more from my heart
\nthan from my eyes —
\nand this embrace.
\nDear friends…companions…
\nMother!…what joy!
\nHow peacefully for me
\nthis day is born again!
\nAll the earth is blooming
\nmore lovely and more fair!
\nNature never was a-glow
\nwith happier countenance:
\nLove has coloured it
\nwith my own delight.<\/p>\n

ALL
\nOh, happy Amina, always,
\nalways thus for you
\nlet Heaven deck the days
\nthat are granted you.
\n(Amina embraces Teresa and, taking her hand, places it
\nover her heart.)<\/p>\n

AMINA
\nPlace your hand upon my heart,
\nyou can feel it beating;
\nIt’s a heart that cannot hold
\nall the joy it feels.<\/p>\n

ALL
\nNow your mother’s heart rejoices
\nwith you in your lucky fate;
\nprovidence could not bestow
\ngreater pleasure upon her.<\/p>\n