T'amo, sì! (Handel) Sara Mingardo & Sandrine Piau

T'amo, sì! from Riccardo Primo, Ré d'Inghilterra ( HWV 23)
by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
 
Sara Mingardo as Riccardo and Sandrine Piau as Costanza
Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset
 
This opera premiered at the King's Theatre in London on  November 11, 1727, and the roles of Riccardo and Costanza were respectively sung by the castrato Senesino and soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. This love duet comes at the end of Act II.
 
RICCARDO:
T'amo, sì!
T'amo, sì, sarai tu quella
solo cara, solo bella
al mio guardo ed al mio cor.
 
COSTANZA:
T'amo sì!
T'amo sì, e più m'appaga
ch'aver soglio, ch'esser vaga,
se son cara al tuo bel cor.
 
RICCARDO & COSTANZA:
Te sol bramo, te sol amo,
Mio diletto, tutto affetto,
Dolce meta del mio amor.
 
RICCARDO:
I love you!
I love you, yes, and you shall be
the only dear one, the only fair one
in my eyes and in my heart.
 
COSTANZA:
I love you!
I love you, yes, and am made happy
more than by a throne, or beauty,
by being dear to your dear heart.
 
RICCARDO & COSTANZA:
I love and yearn for you alone,
my love, with all my heart,
sweet goal of my affection.
 
CD available from L'Oiseau-Lyre:
https://www.amazon.com/Handel-Riccardo-Rousset-George-Frideric/dp/B000004CYN
 
Art in the video:
[0:38]  Donato Giancola (b. 1967)
[1:08]  Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
[1:38]  Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922) 
[2:10]  Charles Edward Hallé (1846–1914)
[2:48]  John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
[3:22]  Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
[3:48]  John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
[4:10]  Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
[4:36]  Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
[5:06]  Frederic William Burton (1816-1900)
[5:30]  J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
[6:10]  Walter Crane (1845–1915)
[6:34]  Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
[7:04]  Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)
[7:32]  John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
[8:08]  Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (1784–1844)
[8:32]  Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
[8:56]  Jon Paul Ferrara (Jon Paul Studios)
[9:20]  August Spiess (1841-1923)

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