Ah! Ruggiero crudel/Ombre pallide - Anja Harteros LIVE - Alcina - Handel

Live from Milan, 15th of March 2009 Conductor: Giovanni Antonini Staging: Robert Carsen Alcina: Anja Harteros Ruggiero: Monica Bacelli Morgana: Patricia Petibon Bradamante: Kristina Hammarström Oronte: Jeremy Ovenden Melisso: Alastair Miles no Oberto this time Recitativo&Aria ALCINA ********** Ah! Ruggiero crudel, tu non mi amasti! Ah! che fingesti ancor, e mingannasti! E pur ti adora ancor fido mio core. Ah! Ruggiero crudel! ah, traditore! Del pallido Acheronte spiriti abitatori, e della notte ministri di vendetta, cieche figlie crudeli, a me venite! Secondate i miei voti, perché Ruggiero amato non fugga da me ingrato. (guarda dintorno, e sospesa) Ma ohimè! misera! e quale insolita tardanza? eh! non mudite? Ombre pallide, lo so, mi udite; dintorno errate, e vi celate, sorde da me: perchè? perchè? Fugge il mio bene; voi lo fermate deh! per pietate, se in questa verga, chora disprezzo, e voglio frangere, forza non è. ********** Ah, cruel Ruggiero! You have never loved me! You feigned love and deceived me! And yet my faithful heart still adores you. Ah, cruel Ruggiero, you are a traitor! Come, you spirits of the wan shores of Acheron, and you, cruel, blind, daughters of the night, ministers of vengeance, come to me! Help me to achieve my desire, that my beloved Ruggiero will not fly from me and forswear me. But alas! I am wretched! What is this unwonted delay? Ah, do you not hear me? I seek you, and you hide yourselves? I command you, and you are silent? Have I been deceived? Have I been tricked? Has my fateful wand lost its power? Vanquished, deluded Alcina, what is now left for you? You pale shadows, I know you hear me; you hover around me and conceal yourselves, and are deaf to my words. Why? Why? My lover flees from me; stop hiim, for pity’s sake, if this wand, which now I despise and would break, has lost its power. **********