Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 2 - Ella mi fu rapita - Andrea Bocelli, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta

Ella mi fu rapita!

E quando, o ciel… Ne' brevi

Istanti prima che il mio presagio inferno

Sull’orma corsa ancora mi spingesse!

Schiuso era l’uscio!

E la magion deserta!

E dove ora sarà quell’angiol caro?

Colei che prima potè in questo core

Destar la fiamma di costanti affetti?

Colei sì pura, al cui modesto sguardo

Quasi spinto a virtù talor me credo?

Ella mi fu rapita!

E chi l’ardiva…

Ma ne avrò, ma ne avrò vendetta…

Lo chiede il pianto della mia diletta

Parmi veder le lagrime

Scorrenti da quel ciglio

Quando fra il dubbio a l’ansia

Del subito periglio

Dell’amor nostro memore

Dell’amor nostro memore

Il suo Gualtier chiamò

Ned ei potea soccorrerti

Cara fanciulla amata;

Ei che vorria coll’anima

Farti quaggiù beata;

Ei che le sfere agli angeli

Ei che le sfere agli angeli

Per te non invidiò

Ei che le sfere

Le sfere agli angeli per te

Per te le sfere agli angeli

Per te non invidiò

Non invidiò per te

She was kidnapped from me!

And when, oh heaven ... Ne 'short

Moments before my hell omen

On the track still pushed me!

The door was open!

And the deserted mansion!

And where will that dear angel be now?

She who first could in this core

Arouse the flame of constant affection?

She so pure, to whose modest gaze

Almost driven to virtue sometimes I believe?

She was kidnapped from me!

And who dared it ...

But I will have it, but I will have revenge ...

The cry of my beloved asks for it

I seem to see the tears

Flowing from that edge

When between doubt and anxiety

Immediately peril

Of our mindful love

Of our mindful love

His Gualtier called

Ned and he could help you

Dear beloved girl;

And what he wants with his soul

Make you blissful down here;

Hey that the spheres to the angels

Hey that the spheres to the angels

For you he did not envy

Hey that the spheres

The spheres to the angels for you

For you the spheres to the angels

For you he did not envy

He did not envy you