Possente spirto Monteverdi Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

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Possente spirto from the opera L’Orfeo (1607) • by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) • Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor • I Gemelli • • ORFEO: • Possente spirto, e formidabil nume, • senza cui far passaggio a l'altra riva • alma da corpo sciolta invan presume, • Non vivo io, no, che poi di vita è priva • mia cara sposa, il cor non è più meco, • e senza cor com'esser può ch'io viva? • A lei volt'ho il cammin per l'aer cieco, • a l'inferno non già, ch'ovunque stassi • tanta bellezza il paradiso ha seco. • Orfeo son io, che d'Euridice i passi • segue per queste tenebrose arene, • ove già mai per uom mortal non vassi. • O de le luci mie luci serene, • s’un vostro sguardo può tornarmi in vita, • ahi, chi niega il conforto a le mie pene? • Sol tu, nobile Dio, puoi darmi aita, • né temer dei, ché sopra un'aurea cetra • sol di corde soavi armo le dita • contra cui rigida alma invan s'impetra. • • TRANSLATION (by Mary Pardoe): • Mighty spirit and formidable god, • without whom no bodiless soul can hope • to gain passage to the other side, • I am not alive, no, for since my beloved bride is deprived of life, • my heart is long longer with me, • and without a heart, how can I be alive? • Through the darkness I have made my way to her • and not to Hades, for wherever • such beauty dwell is Paradise. • I am Orpheus, following Eurydice's steps • through these gloomy regions, • where no mortal man has ever trod. • O clear light of my eyes, if one glance • from you can restore me to life, ah, • who would deny me comfort • in my torment? You alone, noble god, • can help me, nor need you fear, • for as a weapon I have only the sweet • strings of a golden lyre, which the most • obdurate spirit cannot resist. • Available from Naïve: • https://www.amazon.com/Gemelli-Emilia... • Art in the video: • [0:31] Orpheus sing to Hades and Persephone by Jacquesson de la Chevreuse (1839-1903) • [1:18] Orpheus by Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917) • [2:18] Orpheus and Eurydice by Jean-Baptiste Poncet Vassil (1747-1817) • [2:48] Orpheus and Eurydice by Jean Raoux (1677-1734) • [3:29] Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld by a follower of Heinrich Füger 1751–1818) • [4:49] Orpheus Mourning the Death of Eurydice by Ary Scheffer (1795–1858) • [6:32] Orpheus in the Underworld by Henri Regnault (1843-1871) • [7:29] Orpheus and Eurydice by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) • [8:06] Orpheus and Eurydice by Joseph Paelinck (1781-1839) • [8:31] Orpheus by Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656) • [9:01] Orpheus in the Underworld by Gioacchino Giuseppe Serangeli (1768-1852)

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