Veder chi pena, chi langue e sospira (A. Scarlatti) Kate Lindsey

from the chamber cantata Io son Neron (Il Nerone)
by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen, conductor

Veder chi pena, chi langue e sospira,
Brama quel cor che nacque tiranno.
Ma quando nel sonno
Gli spirti non ponno
Sfogar la bell’ira,
Allor, che faranno?
Della morte i trofei sognar sapranno.

To watch those that suffer and sigh
Is my heart’s desire, villainous since birth.
But when my spirits,
While sleeping,
Cannot rage in full anger,
What can they do then?
They can dream of deadly trophies.

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Art in the video:
[0:14] Talma as Nero in Jean Racine's Britannicus by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
[1:50] The Fire of Rome by Hubert Robert (1733–1808)
[2:41] Nero Views the Burning of Rome by Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826-1886)
[3:24] Nero at Baiae by Jan Styka (1858-1925)
[4:32] Remorse of Nero After the Murder of His Mother by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

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