Se il mio paterno amore (Gaetano Latilla) Michael Spyres

Se il mio paterno amore from the opera Siroe, re di Persia (1740)
by Gaetano Latilla (1711–1788)

Michael Spyres, tenor
Il Pomo d'Oro
Francesco Corti, conductor and harpsichord

World-premiere recording

Se il mio paterno amore
sdegna il tuo cuore altero,
più giudice severo
che padre a te sarò.

Et l'empia fellonia
che forse volgi in mente
prima che adulta sia
nascente opprimerò.

TRANSLATION (by Robert Sargant):
If my paternal love
your haughty heart disdains,
a harsher judge than father
you shall come to see in me.

And the wickedness and treachery
that you may now be hatching,
before it comes to full fruition
I shall nip it in the bud.

Available from Warner Classics:
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/contra-tenor

Art in the video:
[0:36] Portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah by Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ghaffari (1814–1866)
[1:38] Ardeshir Mirza and Sulayman Khan Saham al-Dowleh review their troops by Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ghaffari (1814–1866)
[2:54] Portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah by Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ghaffari (1814–1866)
[3:55] The king of Persia (Naser al-Din Shah Qajar) by an unknown Persian artist
[4:56] Jalal al-Din Mirza, son of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar by Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ghaffari (1814–1866)

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