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Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Character(s)
Vocal Parts
Soprano
High Note
G♯5/A♭5
Low Note
C4 (middle C)
Style
Ballad

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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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