'Piangerò la sorte mia' (Cleopatra)

Aria from the opera 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto', HWV 17

Libretto: Nicola Francesco Haym, after Giacomo Francesco Bussani's 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' (music by Antonio Sartorio, 1676)

Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

First performance: 20 February 1724, in London (King's Theatre, Haymarket)
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Cleopatra: Patricia Petibon, soprano

Venice Baroque Orchestra,
conducted by Andrea Marcon

Recorded in September 2009
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CLEOPATRA
Piangerò la sorte mia,
sì crudele e tanto ria,
finché vita in petto avrò.

Ma poi morta, d'ogn'intorno
il tiranno e notte e giorno
fatta spettro agiterò.
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Translation (by Lionel Salter):

CLEOPATRA
I will lament my lot,
so harsh and so cruel,
as long as I have breath in my body.

But when I am dead my ghost
will haunt the tyrant on all sides
by night and day.
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Marc D.

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