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Cecilia Bartoli - "Sposa son disprezzata"

submitted by Deano

1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago

A superb performance by Cecilia Bartoli of an aria from Vivaldi's opera Bajazet.
You may have heard this on The Sopranos in season 3.

Here's a translation from the Wikipedia entry,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sposa_son_disprezzata

I am wife and I am scorned,
I am faithful and I'm outraged.
Heavens, what have I done?
And yet he is my heart,
my husband, my love,
my hope.

I love him, but he is unfaithful,
I hope, but he is cruel,
will he let me die?
O God, valor is missing -
valor and constancy.

17 Comments

plastiquemonkey

oh, that's beautiful...

Check out her other clips on YouTube, she's amazing.

oh. my. ....

italian FTW.

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WOW!

this is absolutely exquisite. the most beautiful thing i've ever heard. amazing. thank you deano. thank you, so much.

wow. amazing. beautiful.

*promote

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Wednesday 18th April 2007 (promotion called by gold star member djsunkid)

<3
I can't believe it took me this long to finally watch this.
Angelic!

Yay! I might hit 20 votes with this video(should be alot more!)

Just for you Deano, a thanks for pulling Andres Segovia through to a 100.

*promote teh awesome, again.

fucking hell, this is so good. 20 votes is not enough!

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, July 6th, 2007 1:10am PDT - promote requested by djsunkid.

fullerenedream says...

This makes me cry every time I watch it.

kronosposeidon

*promote beauty

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, November 15th, 2008 2:59am PST - promote requested by kronosposeidon.

*livemusic dammit

Adding video to channels (Livemusic) - requested by deathcow.

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