Flower Duet (Sous le dôme épais) from Léo Delibes' Lakme - sung ravishingly by Joan Sutherland (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) and Huguette Tourangeau.
The duet takes place in Act 1, between Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go to gather flowers by a river. The duet was featured in the 1983 horror film The Hunger.
Beautiful Italian aria written by Geminiano Giacomelli.
It is used in Vivaldi's pasticcio, Bajazet.
From Cecilia Bartoli's album "If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs"
Libretto
|
Italian |
Translation in English |
|---|---|
|
Sposa son disprezzata, fida son oltraggiata, |
I am a scorned wife, faithful, yet insulted. |
|
cieli che feci mai? |
Heaven's, what did I do? |
|
E pur egl'è il mio cor, il mio sposo, il mio amor, |
And yet he is my heart, my husband, my love, |
|
la mia speranza. |
my hope. |
|
L'amo ma egl'è infedel, spero ma egl'è crudel, |
I love him, but he is unfaithful, I hope, but he is cruel, |
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morir mi lascierai? O Dio manca il valor |
will he let me die? O God, valor is missing - |
|
valor e la costanza. |
valor and constancy. |
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