Renée Fleming: Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, 'E Susanna non vien! Dove sono i bei momenti'

Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano whose repertoire encompasses Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Arabella. A Richard Tucker Award winner, she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music. Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi... en.wikipedia.or...
Lyrics & English Translation
And Susanna hasn't come!
I'm anxious to know
How the Count took the proposition.
The plan seems to me a little rash,
And against such a quick and jealous husband!
But what harm is there in it?
To change my clothes with Susanna's,
And hers with mine under cover of night.
Oh, Heaven! What a fatal comedown
I'm reduced to by a cruel husband!
Who, after he had me, [gave me] an
unheard-of mixture
Of infidelity, jealousy and rage!
First loved, then insulted, and
at last betrayed,
You force me to seek help from one
of my maids!
Where are the lovely moments
Of sweetness and pleasure?
Where have the promises gone
That came from those lying lips?
Why, if all is changed for me
Into tears and pain,
Has the memory of that goodness
Not vanished from my breast?
Ah! if only, at least, my faithfulness,
Which still loves amidst its suffering,
Could bring me the hope
Of changing that ungrateful heart!
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