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Bella figlia dell'amore" ("Beautiful daughter of love") is a vocal quartet from the last act of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. It has been described as a "masterful quartet that is an intricate musical depiction of four personalities and their overlapping agendas", [ 1 ] and has been performed and recorded by many notable artists.
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts [a] by Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
File: Enrico Caruso, Bessie Abott, Louise Homer, Antonio Scotti, Giuseppe Verdi, Bella figlia dell' amore (Rigoletto).ogg
Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto) Amici miei soldati; La rivedrà nell'estasi (Un ballo in maschera) Di tu se fedele (Un ballo in maschera) Ora e per sempre addio (Otello) Sì pel ciel marmoreo giuro (Otello) Ingemisco tamquam reus ; Libiamo, libiamo (La traviata) Ah sì ben mio (Il trovatore) Di quella pira (Il trovatore)
A quartet where every one of the performers is a star in their own right. While it has the flaws typical of early recordings, I nonetheless think this is an excellent version of the piece, exciting and fun.
Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, who had prepared the libretti for Nabucco and I Lombardi.
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The lyrics are based on a phrase by King Francis I of France, Souvent femme varie, bien fol qui s'y fie. [Women are fickle, and who trusts them is a fool.], that he, deceived by one of his numerous mistresses, reputedly engraved on a window pane. Victor Hugo used this phrase verbatim in his play, Le roi s'amuse, on which Rigoletto is based. [3]