Il Trovatore

 

 

Il trovatore (The Troubadour) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

 

Di quella pira

 

In a chamber adjoining the chapel at Castellor, Leonora and Manrico vow their love for each other.  After Manrico’s aria Ah si, ben mio coll’essere (“Ah, yes, my love, in being yours”), they are about to take their marriage vows.  However, Ruiz, Manrico’s comrade, suddenly returns to report that Manrico’s mother Azucena is to be burned at the stake.  Manrico calls together his soldiers and sings of how they will save Azucena from death:  “Di quella pira l’orrendo foco tutte le fibre m’arse avvampò!…” (“The horrible blaze of that pyre burns, enflames all of my being!…”)
 

 

Di quella pira
Verdi’s IL TROVATORE
Pavarotti
(English lyrics)

 

Di quella pira
Lyrics

 

Ah si, ben mio…
Di quella pira
Placido Domingo

 

Ah si, ben mio…
Lyrics