Anja Harteros: Handel - Alcina, 'Ah! Mio cor!'
Anja Harteros (born 23 July 1972) is a German operatic soprano. In 1999, she became the first German to win the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. In the summer of 1999, she won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, which led to many invitations for concerts and guest performances. This was the major breakthrough for her career: since then, she has appeared as a guest at all the major world opera houses, including Frankfurt, Lyon, Amsterdam, Dresden, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna, New York (Metropolitan Opera), Munich, Cologne and Berlin (Deutsche Oper), as well as the Salzburger Festspiele. She has also given concerts and Lieder recitals all over Germany, as well as in Boston, Florence, London, Edinburgh, Vicenza and Tel Aviv. She sang the title role in a new production of Händel's Alcina at the opera festival in Munich in 2005. Her repertoire includes the roles of Mimì (La bohème), Desdemona (Otello), Micaëla (Carmen), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Arabella (Arabella), Alice Ford (Falstaff), and Alcina. She sang her first Violetta in La traviata in 2004 and her first Amelia in Simon Boccanegra in 2005 with San Diego Opera... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anja_Har...
Lyrics & English Translation
Oh, my heart, you are scorned!
Oh, you stars! Oh Heaven!
Sentiment of love!
Betrayer!
I love you so;
how can you leave me alone, in tears?
O Heavens! Why?
But what is Alcina doing complaining?
I am queen, and there is yet time.
He shall stay or die,
suffer eternally, or return to me!
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I send my kind and warm regards,