Maria Callas IL CORSARO EGLI NON RIEDEANCOR . . . NON SOLE TETRE IMMAGINI (

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• Description : Egli non riede ancora! Oh come lung...(more)he, eterne, quando lungi è da me, lore mi sono! (Prende larpa.) Arpa che or muta giaci, vieni, ed i miei sospiri seconda, sì, che più veloce giunga il flebile lamento al cor del mio fedel sullali al vento. Non so le tetre immagini fugar del mio pensiero sempre dannata a gemere allombra dun mistero: e se di speme un pallido raggio su me traluce, è passeggiera luce di lampo ingannator. Meglio è morir! se lanima sen voli in seno a Dio; se il mio Corrado a piangere verrà sul cener mio: premio una cara lagrima chieggo allamor soltanto, virtù non niega il pianto per chi moria damor. ------------------------------------- The pirate Corrado lives on an island in the Aegean. While he is making plans with his lieutenant Giovanni to sail off and attack the Muslim harbour city of Corone, his mistress, Medora, sits alone in her room waiting for him. She expresses her anxiety over his absence in a doleful song, accompanying herself on a harp. MEDORA Still he does not return! Oh how long an eternity the hours seem when he is away! (She takes up her harp.) Come, my harp, that has lain silent, add your voice to my sighs, so that my doleful lament may faster reach the heart of my faithful lover, carried on the wings of the wind. I cannot dispel the uneasy fantasies of my thoughts, condemned as I am to suffer in the shadow of a mystery. Even if a pale ray of hope shines on me, it is only the passing flash of deceitful lightning. Better to die! Then my soul might fly up to Gods embrace, and my Corrado might come to weep over my remains. A loving tear is the only reward I ask for my love; manly virtue is not denied by weeping for one who has died for love. Translation EMI Records Ltd., 1978 P.S. I'm terribly sorry that Dural's channel is suspended, I did not mean to steal the video. I beleive this is one of the best Callas videos ever made, and It must be shared with the world... Once Dural's channel is established again, I would quietly remove this video (less)