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Rhys Meirion is a Welsh opera and classical tenor singer. He was born on 24 February 1966 in Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynedd. He joined the English National Opera in 1999 and became a company principal from 2001 to 2004.
He is known for his narrative cantatas – works he has written for orchestra and choir based on Irish mythology – and for the aria ‘Vide Cor Meum’ originally composed for the film Hannibal, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Anthony Hopkins. The libretto for the latter aria was taken from Dante’s first sonnet in ‘La Vita Nuova’.
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana, Meum est propositum in taberna mori; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli; Antonio Vivaldi – Nulla in mundo pax sincera; The libretto for the opera-oratorio Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky is in Latin, as well as the 1963 choral composition Cantata misericordium by Benjamin Britten.
The DVD includes a picture gallery with pictures from the concert, two interviews with Brightman, as well as an interview about the cathedral with Father Anthony Faber and historian Elisabeth Lloyd-Jones. The CD in the CD/DVD package includes a bonus studio recording of Brightman performing "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy. [1]
"Vide Cor Meum" (with Rhys Meirion) Patrick Cassidy: 4:01: 13. "O mio babbino caro" ("Oh my dear papa", from the opera Gianni Schicchi) Giacomo Puccini: 2:37: 14. "Music of the Night" (from the musical The Phantom of the Opera) Andrew Lloyd Webber: 5:46: 15. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (from the musical My Fair Lady) Frederick Loewe: 2:34: ...
Vide Cor Meum – The operatic aria during King Baldwin IV's funeral, originally composed for the soundtrack of the film Hannibal. Ave Regina cælorum – The first stanza of this twelfth-century antiphon is used on the soundtrack in the track "Burning the Past".
Psalm 45 is the 45th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "My heart is inditing a good matter". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 44.
cor meum tibi offero domine prompte et sincere: my heart I offer to you Lord promptly and sincerely: John Calvin's personal motto, also adopted by Calvin College: cor unum: one heart: A popular school motto and often used as a name for religious and other organisations such as the Pontifical Council Cor Unum. coram: in the presence of