Sunday, December 14, 2008

'E pur cosi in un giorno?/Piangerò la sorte mia'




Inger Dam-Jensen singing Cleopatra's aria Piangeò la sorte mia from Händel's Giulio Cesare. With Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Concerto Copenhagen.






MARINEL CRUZ SINGS "PIANGERO LA SORTE MIA"[and recitative] FROM HANDEL'S "GIULIO CESARE"






Piangero La Sorte Mia (FLOW MY TEARS) in English by Valerie Masterson.






Cleopatra's aria [and recitative] from Act 3, Scene 3 of Giulio Cesare, by George F. Handel; Sarah Tucker, soprano; Recorded March 28, 2008 at Texas State University.






JoAnna Ford sings Piangero`la sorte mia [and recitative] from Guilio Cesare.






Montserrat Caballe as Cleopatra "Piangero" G. Cesare; Teatro del Liceo de Barcelona. June 23, 1982






Annick Massis - Handel - Giulio Cesare - "Piangero la sorte" - Jory Vinikour - harpsichord.






Kiri Te Kanawa sings Piangero La Sorte Mia.






Leontyne Price "Piangero la sorte mia" G. Cesare, October 8, 1978.






Arleen Auger - "Piangerò la sorte mia" - Cleopatra's moving aria from Giulio Cesare in Egitto by G.F. Handel.






Recitative and Aria: E pur cosi in un giorno...Piangero la sorte mia (Cleopatra); Christine Schafer, Soprano; Marc Minkowski; Les musciens du Louvre.






Amanda Roocroft, Soprano (Cleopatra) - Franz Welser-Most; The London Philharmonic.






Annick MASSIS ~ 2008 Air de Cleopatra Amsterdam.





Recitative - student recital - arianavictoriavaldes.






Magdalena Kozena singing the role of Cleopatra.






Countertenor Samuel Choi
Recorded at Seoul Cathedral Anglican Church
Recording Date - 07/04/2007






Victoria Taranova, soprano.






Sandrine Piau (Cleopatra) - Rene Jacobs (Conductor) - Live from Paris 14 June 2008.






Singer: Ann Murray(mezzosoprano)






Singer: Teresa Berganza (mezzosoprano).






Leontyne Price - American Opera Society. NY October 9, 1958.






Patrizia Morandini - Dal "Concerto Barocco" eseguito al Teatro Goldoni di Firenze con l'orchestra Ricercare Strumentale Italiano direttore d'orchestra David Muntoni.






Ana Paula Russo and Nuno Lopes' recital. 2008.






Unknown tenor.






Ksenia Popova, soprano Charles Enlow, piano.






Estrella Cuello (soprano).






"Piangerò la sorte mia", Cleopatra's aria from G. F. Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", sung by French countertenor Yves Le Pech (b. in 1959).

Yves Le Pech, countertenor
Anne-Cécile Dumoulin, organ
Eugène Fabrice, cello

Recorded live in church of Carennac, France, August 22, 1997.






Kathleen Battle.






Please enjoy this video from Crazy, the upcoming CD release from the baroque ensemble, I FURIOSI.

Georg Friedrich Handel was considered a bit crazy in his day. When he wasn't getting into sword fights or storming around raving, he was writing impassioned operas. He wrote Cleopatra's aria, Piangerò la Sorte Mia,("I shall mourn my cruel fortune.."), portrayed and sung brilliantly by Gabrielle McLaughlin, to reflect her insanity at being imprisoned and at her authority being challenged. In the opera, she has just been defeated by Tolomeo and his army. Before this aria, Tolomeo sings "Domero la tua fierezza" (" I will tame you of your pride.") Thus humiliated, her anger drives her insane.

I FURIOSI are Aisslinn Nosky, violin; Felix Deak, cello; Julia Wedman, violin; and, Gabrielle McLaughlin, soprano.