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SJuli's video: Qui dove muto e solo Niobe Act III Scene III - Jaroussky Forsythe

@Qui dove muto e solo (Niobe Act III Scene III) - Jaroussky, Forsythe
Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) Niobe, Regina di Tebe (1688) Act III. Scene III. Philippe Jaroussky, Anfione Amanda Forsythe, Niobe Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, dir. Paul O'Dette and Steven Stubbs Live recording Boston Early Music Festival 2011 ******* Picture: Set Model for Act I. by Gilbert Blin, photo by Rémy-Michel Trotier ******* ANFIONE Qui, dove muto, e solo Il Silenzio passeggia, Dall'abborrita Reggia Vengo Rè sfortunato In compagnia del duolo, À esacerbar mio Fato: Accogliete i miei pianti, i miei Martori Solitudini care, amici horrori. Mà sù Guancial di sasso Ninfa qui appar, che dorme. NIOBE Ahi respiro. ANFIONE Si desta. NIOBE À i dolci Amplessi Torna l'Alma smarrita. ANFIONE È di Niobe la voce. Ahi, se non erran gl'occhi, Niobe è costei. NIOBE Mà dove son; che veggio? ANFIONE Benche in diverse spoglie, E dessa: io non traveggio. NIOBE Dov'è il Ciel, dov'è Marte? ANFIONE I suoi vaneggiamenti. Ascoltar vuò in disparte. NIOBE Dive ancelle ove siete? Mio Nume ove sparisti? e chi dal soglio De canori Adamanti, In queste mute arene Hà Niobe condannata? ANFIONE Mente contaminata. NIOBE Dimmi: (vede Anfione) ahi, che miro? sposo. ANFIONE Ahi schernita Regina, Tradita fè, tiranneggiato Amore, Costanza offesa, & ingannato Core. NIOBE E che dirò? ANFIONE Quanto à me fè palese Tiresia l'Indovino, Ascolta Alma confusa Di Regnante delusa: Per gran forza d'Incanto, Sotto Velo di Nume al sen stringesti Il nemico Creonte, C'hora Tebe assalisce: Così permette il Ciel, quando punisce. NIOBE Niobe che ascolti? e di cotanto oltraggio Vilipesa, e negletta, Tardi ancor la Vendetta? Contro il Ciel, che m'hà schernita, Corro, volo à guerreggiar. E dal soglio inferocita Voglio i Numi fulminar. Contro il Ciel, &c. ******* Translation by Ellen Hargis: ANFIONE Here, where Silence passes, Mute and alone, From the horrid Realm I come, unfortunate King, In the company of sorrow, To bewail my Fate: Dear Solitude embraces my tears, My Sorrows—friendly horrors. But here is a girl, Sleeping on a Pillow of stone. NIOBE Ah, I breathe. ANFIONE She awakens. NIOBE To sweet Embraces My lost Soul returns. ANFIONE The voice is Niobe's. Alas, if my eyes are not mistaken, She is Niobe. NIOBE But where am I, what do I see? ANFIONE Although she is in different clothing, It is she: I am not mistaken. NIOBE Where is Heaven, where is Mars? ANFIONE I would prefer to listen to Her ravings while hidden. NIOBE Goddess handmaids, where are you? My God, where have you disappeared? And who Has condemned Niobe From that place of Adamantine enchantments To this silent shore? ANFIONE Polluted mind! NIOBE Tell me... (she sees Anfione) alas, what do I see? Husband! ANFIONE Alas, scorned Queen, Betrayed faith, tyrannized Love, Offended Constancy, and deceived Heart. NIOBE And what shall I say? ANFIONE Much has been revealed to me By Tiresia, the Seer; Now hear, confused Soul, Of deluded Royalty: By great power of enchantment, In the Body of the God whom you clasped to your bosom Was the enemy Creonte, Who now attacks Thebes; So Heaven permits, when it punishes. NIOBE Niobe, what do you hear? And against such outrage, Despised and mistreated, Do you still delayWar? Against Heaven, which has scorned me, I run, I fly to make war. And from the enraged throne I want to strike the Gods with lightning bolts. Against Heaven, etc.

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