Karaoke Opera: Vesti la Giubba - I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Orchestra only version with printed music

Full Orchestra. There is a vocal version corresponding exactly to this here:    • Karaoke Opera: Vesti La Giubba - I Pa...  

Shortly before going on stage for a comic performance, the Jester Canio has just discovered that his wife has been unfaithful. The expression of his sorrow is made more poignant by his clown's garb

Czech Symphony Orchestra
Julian Bigg

A Musical Concepts production

VESTI LA GIUBBA
Recitar! Performing
Mentre preso dal delirio With my heart weighed with sorrow
non so più quel che dico I do not know what I'm saying
e quel che faccio! or what I should do!
Eppur è d'uopo But I must face it
Sforzati! Stiffen my resolve!
Bah, sei tu forse_un nom! Bah, I am not a man,
Tu se'Pagliaccio! I’m just a jester!

Vesti la Giubba On with the tunic
e la faccia_infarina and the face paint,
La gente paga The people pay
e rider vuole qua and want their laughs
E se_Arlecchin If Harlequin
t'invola Colombina, steals your Columbine,
ridi Pagliaccio laugh clown
e_ognun applaudirà! and they’ll all applaud!
Tramuta in laz…zi lo Turn into gags your
Spasmo_ed il pianto; tears and your pangs;
in una smorfia_il singhiozzo into a grimace your sobbing
e'l dolor Ah! and your pain...Ah!
Ridi Pagliaccio Laugh clown
sul tuo amore_infranto! for the love that is ended!
Ridi del duol che Laugh for the sorrow
t'avvelena that is poisoning
il cor! your heart!