Emma Kirkby & Steven Lubin Follow

Update due to a small typo.

Dear Steve Lubin:
Years ago you accompanied my husband Bass-baritone Ronald Hedlund (www.RonaldHedlund.com) when we lived in NY City.

The lyrics below are from my edition in The Virtuoso Obbligato Aria Collection.(For more information and a sound file, go to my web site at www.vcellomusic.com and click on the word catalogue).

Morgana’s aria from “Alcina”, Act 3, Scene 1
by G. F. Handel

Credete al mio dolore, luci tiranne, e care!
Languo per voi d'amore, bramo da voi pieta!
se pianger mi vedete, se mio tesor vi chiamo,
e dite, che non v'amo,È troppo crudeltà,
Credete al mio dolore....

If I wounded you my love, I ask forgiveness,
Oh you stern, but beloved eyes!
I pine for your compassion!
If, when you see me weep,
when I call you my darling,
You deny that I love you, it is too cruel to bear,
Believe that I suffer.