Or sai, chi l'onore

So I just finished watching Zeffirelli's 2000 MET production of Don Giovanni and while a typical Zeffirelli production (are there singers amongst all the vaulting baroque architecture?)and with very fine singers nothing truly inspires the sheer horror and moral outrage that a great production of Don Giovanni should be invoke. Renee Fleming portrays Donna Anna with the same buttery flexiblity that has become her staple, but I started to feel that it all was a bit too theatrical....so I compiled a few clips of other other famous singers invoking vengenace over discovering the identity of the man who raped them and killed their fathers!

Or sai chi l'onore
Rapire a me volse
Chi fu il traditore
Che il padre mi tolse.
Vendetta ti chiedo,
La chiede il tuo cor.
Rammenta la piaga
Del misero seno,
Rimira di sangue
Coperto il terreno.
Se l'ira in te langue
D'un giusto furor.

Now you know who sought
to steal my honor
who was the betrayer
who killed my father
I ask you vengeance,
your heart asks it too.
Remember the wound
gaping in his poor breast,
recall the earth
covered with his blood,
if ever the wrath of a just fury
should weaken in you.





Fleming



Grummer


Tomowa-Sintow


Vaness


Sutherland