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Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi: Act I. "Oh! Quante Volte"

Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" depicts Juliet lamenting her upcoming marriage in Act I. She describes herself as a victim ready for sacrifice on the altar. Juliet calls out to Romeo, begging where he is and where she can send her sighs to him. She burns with passion for Romeo and finds no relief, seeing his presence in the light and feeling his sighs in the wind.

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Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi: Act I. "Oh! Quante Volte"

Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" depicts Juliet lamenting her upcoming marriage in Act I. She describes herself as a victim ready for sacrifice on the altar. Juliet calls out to Romeo, begging where he is and where she can send her sighs to him. She burns with passion for Romeo and finds no relief, seeing his presence in the light and feeling his sighs in the wind.

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Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Act I. "Oh!

Quante volte"

Eccomi in lieta vesta... eccomi adorna... Behold me decked out


Come vittima all'ara. Oh! almen potessi like a victim on the altar. Oh if only I could
Qual vittima cader dell'ara al piede! fall like a victim at the foot of the altar!
O nuzïali tede, Oh nuptial torches,
Abborrite così, così fatali so hated, so fateful,
Siate, ah! siate per me faci ferali. ah! would that you were the tapes of my doom.
Ardo... una vampa, un foco I burn, a blaze, a fire
Tutta mi strugge. all my torment.

Un refrigerio ai venti io chiedo invano. - In vain I call on the winds to cool me.
Ove se'tu, Romeo? Where are you Romeo?
In qual terra t'aggiri? In what lands do you wander
Dove, dove invïarti i miei sospiri? Where, where shall I send them,
where my sighs where to?

Oh! quante volte, Oh! How much time,


Oh! quante ti chiedo Oh! How often I beg you!
Al ciel piangendo! the sky weeps
Con quale ardor t'attendo, with the passion of my waiting
E inganno il mio desir! And delude my desires!
Raggio del tuo sembiante To me the light of day
Parmi il brillar del giorno: ah! is like the flash of your presence
L'aura che spira intorno ah! the air that winds around
Mi sembra un tuo sospir. is my longings.

Behold me decked out


like a victim on the altar. Oh if only I could
fall like a victim at the foot of the altar!
Oh nuptial torches,
so hated, so fateful,
ah! would that you were the tapes of my doom.
I burn, a blaze, a fire
all my torment.
In vain I call on the winds to cool me.
Where are you Romeo?
In what lands do you wander
Where, where shall I send them,
where my sighs where to?

Oh! How much time,


Oh! How often I beg you!
the sky weeps
with the passion of my waiting
And delude my desires!
To me the light of day
ah! is like the flash of your presence
ah! the air that winds around
is my longings.

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