Recondita armonia
"Recondita armonia"
Enrico Caruso's 1907 performance (2:25)
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"Recondita armonia" is the first romanza in the opera Tosca (1900) by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by the painter Mario Cavaradossi when comparing his love, Tosca, to a portrait of Mary Magdalene that he is painting.[1]
Libretto
Recondita armonia di bellezze diverse!
È bruna Floria, l'ardente amante mia.
E te, beltade ignota, cinta di chiome bionde,
Tu azzurro hai l'occhio,
Tosca ha l'occhio nero!
L'arte nel suo mistero,
le diverse bellezze insiem confonde...
Ma nel ritrar costei,
Il mio solo pensiero,
Ah! Il mio sol pensier sei tu,
Tosca, sei tu!
Concealed harmony of contrasting beauties!
Floria, my ardent lover, is dark haired.
And you, unknown beauty, crowned with blond hair,
You have blue eyes,
Tosca has black eyes!
Art, in its mysterious way,
blends the contrasting beauties together...
But while I'm painting her,
My only thought,
My only thought is of you,
Tosca, it is of you!
References
- ^ "Recondita armonia". Aria database site. Retrieved 25 July 2018
External links
- "Recondita armonia" on YouTube, Plácido Domingo
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Giacomo Puccini
- Le Villi (1884)
- Edgar (1889)
- Manon Lescaut (1893)
- La bohème (1896)
- Tosca (1900)
- discography
- Madama Butterfly (1904)
- discography
- La fanciulla del West (1910)
- La rondine (1917)
- Il trittico (1918)
- Il tabarro
- Suor Angelica
- Gianni Schicchi
- Turandot (1924)
- "Torna ai felici dì"
- "Donna non vidi mai"
- "Quando me'n vo'"
- "E lucevan le stelle"
- "Recondita armonia"
- "Vissi d'arte"
- "Ch'ella mi creda"
- "O mio babbino caro"
- "In questa reggia"
- "Nessun dorma"
- "Non piangere, Liù"
- "Tu che di gel sei cinta"
- "Signore, ascolta!"
- "O soave fanciulla"
- "Che gelida manina"
- "Un bel dì, vedremo"
- Messa di Gloria (1880)
- La Bohème (1926 film)
- Tosca (1956 film)
- La Bohème (1965 film)
- La Bohème (1988 film)
- La Bohème (2008 film)
- Tosca (2001 film)
- Jacopo Puccini (great-great-grandfather)
- Domenico Puccini (grandfather)
- Simonetta Puccini (granddaughter)
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