Renato Bruson: Verdi - Don Carlo, 'Io morrò, ma lieto in core'

Renato Bruson (born 13 January 1936) is an Italian operatic baritone. Bruson is widely considered one of the most important Verdi baritones of the late 20th and early 21st century. He was born in Granze near Padua, Italy. Bruson made his operatic debut as the Conte di Luna in Il trovatore at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto in 1960. The following year he was Riccardo in I puritani at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in Rome. His first Metropolitan Opera appearance was as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor in 1969. In 1970 he started his collaboration with conductor Riccardo Muti in Un ballo in maschera in Florence. He made his debut at La Scala in 1972 as Antonio in Donizetti's Linda di Chamonix, at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1972 as Ezio in Attila, at Covent Garden in 1975 in the role of Renato in Un ballo in maschera, substituting with great success for Piero Cappuccilli. He debuted at the Vienna State Opera in 1978 with Macbeth, with such a success that the prestigious Austrian theatre awarded him with the important title of Kammersänger. In the 1980s he turned to the 18th century with Mozart's Don Giovanni and to Italian verismo with Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier. He is considered by some critics the finest Rigoletto since Tito Gobbi.[3] They appreciate his elegant and expressive phrasing, velvety tone, musical intelligence and acting qualities. He excels in long, lyrical lines. He is also appreciated for not disdaining smaller roles and for not assuming a divo attitude. Bruson once described himself in the following terms: "I am self critic enough to understand what I can get at. Since I knew I did not have a thundering voice to make coarse effects, I sought the interpretation since I think it is more important that the public go home with something in their hearts than some sounds in their ears"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_B...

Lyrics & English Translation

Ah! Learn the depth of my feeling and affection for you.
You will get out of this dire place.
With what tender pride I hold you to my breast!
I have saved you!

We must take our leave!
(Don Carlos freezes, looking aghast at Rodrigo).
Yes, Carlos! This is for me the supreme day,
let us say a solemn farewell;
In your tear-filled eyes
why this mute terror?
Why are you sad? Death has charms,
o my Carlos, for him who dies for you!

Listen, Carlos ... Your mother
expects you tomorrow at;
she knows all! ... Ah! The world
slips away from me ... O Carlos! Your hand ...
Ah! I die with a happy soul,
since you are alive, saved by me ...
Ah! I see a happy nation!
Farewell! Carlos, ah! Remember!
Remember, Carlos!
Yes, you must reign,
and I must die for you!
Ah! I die with a happy soul,
since you are alive, saved by me ...
Ah! I see a happy Spain!
Farewell! Carlos, ah! Remember!
Ah! the world
slips away from me ... Carlos, your hand ...
Carlos! Ah! Save Flanders!
Farewell! Carlos, ah! Farewell!


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