Anna Netrebko: Donizetti - Anna Bolena, 'Piangete voi... Al dolce guidami'

Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко, born 18 September 1971) is a Russian operatic soprano. She now holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and currently resides in Vienna. She has been nicknamed "La Bellissima" by fans. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar (Russia), in a family of Kuban Cossack background. While a student at the Saint Petersburg conservatoire, Netrebko worked as a janitor at Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. Later, she auditioned for the Mariinsky Theatre, where conductor Valery Gergiev recognized her from her prior work in the theater. He subsequently became her vocal mentor. Under Gergiev's guidance, Netrebko made her operatic stage debut at the Mariinsky at age 22, as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She went on to sing many prominent roles with the Kirov Opera, including Amina in La sonnambula, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. In 1994, she sang the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with the Riga Independent Opera Avangarda Akadēmija under conductor David Milnes. In March 2007, Netrebko announced that she would be an ambassador for SOS Children's Village in Austria, and be a sponsor for the Tomilino village in Russia... en.wikipedia.or...
Lyrics & English Translation
ANNA
Are you weeping?
What causes such tears?
This is my wedding day.
The King awaits me...
the candles on the altar, are lit,
it is decorated with flowers.
Give me quickly my
white robe; adorn my hair
with my crown or roses.
That Percy know nothing about it,
the King has ordered it so.
CORO
Oh tragic memory!
ANNA
Oh..who is grieving?
Who spoke of Percy?
Let me not see him;
let me hide myself from his
gaze. It is useless... He comes...
he accuses me... he scolds me...
ah! he scolds me, accuses me.
Ah!
Ah! forgive me, forgive me...
I am unhappy.
Take me away from
this utter misery
Are you smiling?
Oh joy!
Do not let me die abandoned here, no.
You are smiling? Percy?
Oh joy!
Lead me to the dear castle
where I was born,
to the green plane trees,
to that brook that still
murmurs to our sighs...
Ah!
there I forget Past griefs;
give me back one day of my youth,
give me back one day of our love.
Lead me to the dear castle
where I was born;
give me back one day
of our love..
just one single day of our love.
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