
The Willow Song: Assisa a’ piè d’un salice
Otello; ossia Il Moro di Venezia
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Overview
- Age Guidance
- Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
- Character(s)
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- Vocal Parts
- Soprano
- High Note
- G♯5/A♭5
- Low Note
- C4 (middle C)
- Style
- Ballad
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In her emotional distress, Desdemona is losing
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Assisa a' piè d'un salice,
immersa nel dolore,
gemea traffita Isaura
dal più crudele amore:
L'aura tra i rami flebile
ne ripetva il suon.
I ruscelletti limpidi
a' caldi suoi sospiri,
il mormorio mesceano
de' lor diversi giri:
L'aura fra i rami flebile
ne ripetva il suon.
Salce d'amor delzia!
Ombra pietosa appresta,
di mie sciagure immemore,
all'urna mia funesta;
nè più ripeta l'aura
de' miei lamenti il suon.
Translation from 1833 libretto:
Seated at the foot of a willow,
Immersed in grief,
Complained the hapless Isaura,
A prey to relentless love;
The breeze amid the mournful branches
Repeated the sound.
The lucid rills
Mingled the murmur
Of their passive waves
With her burning sighs:
The breeze and the mournful branches
Repeated the sound.
O willow, thou favourite of love,
Lend thy pitying shade,
When hushed are all my sorrows,
To my sad urn:
When the breeze no more repeats
The sound of my lament.
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