Ettore Bastianini: Verdi - Don Carlos, 'Death of Rodrigo'

Ettore Bastianini (September 24, 1922 -- January 25, 1967) was an Italian opera singer who was particularly associated with the operas of Verdi. In 1958, Bastanini sang his first Scarpia at the Teatro di San Carlo. This was followed by three other roles new to him at La Scala that summer: Belcore in L'elisir d'amore, Ernesto in Il pirata (with Callas and Franco Corelli), and the title role in Nabucco. In July of that year, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Rodrigo under Herbert von Karajan, and then returned to Bilbao in September for several more performances. Towards the end of the year, he sang four roles in five days at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, followed by his only baroque opera role, Lichas in Handel's Hercules under Lovro von Matačić, at La Scala. In September 1958, Bastanini sang for the first time at the Vienna State Opera as Scarpia opposite Tebaldi's Tosca. He performed regularly there until the end of his career, in 1965. In the fall of 1959, he debuted at the Dallas Opera singing Enrico opposite Callas's Lucia, and Figaro as well. The following December, he sang his first Michonnet in Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur at the Teatro di San Carlo, starring Magda Olivero. He returned to that house in 1960 to sing Don Carlo in Ernani, a role he also portrayed at the Salzburg Festival that year. Also in 1960, he sang Severo in Donizetti's Poliuto in a famous production that marked the return of Callas to La Scala. In February 1961, he debuted with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company as Rigoletto. Later that month he appeared in two productions at La Scala, Lucia di Lammermoor with Dame Joan Sutherland and I puritani with Renata Scotto. In December 1961, he returned to La Scala to sing his first and only performances of Rolando in Verdi's rarely heard opera La battaglia di Legnano. In 1962, he made his first and only appearance at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Renato, returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to sing the title role in Rigoletto, and sang Conte di Luna at La Scala and the Salzburg Festival, in addition to several performances with the Vienna State Opera... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Bastianini
Lyrics & English Translation
Ah! Learn the depth of my feeling and affection for you.
You will get out of this dire place.
With what tender pride I hold you to my breast!
I have saved you!

We must take our leave!
(Don Carlos freezes, looking aghast at Rodrigo).
Yes, Carlos! This is for me the supreme day,
let us say a solemn farewell;
In your tear-filled eyes
why this mute terror?
Why are you sad? Death has charms,
o my Carlos, for him who dies for you!

Listen, Carlos ... Your mother
expects you tomorrow at;
she knows all! ... Ah! The world
slips away from me ... O Carlos! Your hand ...
Ah! I die with a happy soul,
since you are alive, saved by me ...
Ah! I see a happy nation!
Farewell! Carlos, ah! Remember!
Remember, Carlos!
Yes, you must reign,
and I must die for you!
Ah! I die with a happy soul,
since you are alive, saved by me ...
Ah! I see a happy Spain!
Farewell! Carlos, ah! Remember!
Ah! the world
slips away from me ... Carlos, your hand ...
Carlos! Ah! Save Flanders!
Farewell! Carlos, ah! Farewell!
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