Friday, January 27, 2012

"Si ridesti il leon": decastillabi

Speranza


Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
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Philip Gossett - 2008 - 675 pages - Preview

... and that's why

I ask you for ottonari".

-- “Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate” from Nabucco, “O Signore del tetto natio” from I Lombardi, and “Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia” from "Ernani" (1844) all employ the poetic meter of decasillabi)."

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