Watch movie and read libretto and translation of Pieta rispetto amore, an aria for baritone from the Italian opera Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi.
The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing translation--except where the opera was written in English. Each has a thematic guide to the most important musical themes in musical notation and each guide is lavishly illustrated. They also contain a ...
(It was conducted by the polymath Edward Downes, who also translated the libretto into English.)The original version stayed in purdah until a few years after Shostakovich's death in 1975. In 1979 Mstislav Rostropovich conducted a wonderful recording of the authentic work, with his wife Galina ...
Libretto and notes in Italian with English translation (also available online) DYNAMIC CDS7915.02 [79.42 + 72.25] I have commented in the past that the performance of Verdi’s operas in Paris always seemed to generate editorial problems which have continued to plague later generations – not that...
Vienna State Opera’sLady Macbeth of Mtsensk(Act IV) © Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn The first three acts are perfectly pitched between tragedy and comedy; the ‘rape’ of the cook, the lovers ‘wrestling’, Sergei’s violent flogging, Boris’s poisoning, the drunken...