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Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Addio Roma, addio patria, amici addio - Act 3

Libretto : Gian Francesco Busenello
Réalisation musicale René Jacobs

Poppea, Danielle Borst
Nerone, Guillemette Laurens
Ottavia, Jennifer Larmore
Ottone, Axel Köhler
Seneca, Michael Schopper
Drusilla, Lena Lootens
Nutrice, Dominique Visse
Arnalta, Christoph Homberger
Lucano, Guy de Mey
Amore, Martina Bovet

Ottavia
Farewell Rome, farewell my country, friends, farewell. Innocent, I must part from you. I go to suffer exile in bitter grief, despairing I sail the unhearing seas. The air that from hour to hour will receive my breaths will bear them, in the name of my heart, to look at, to kiss the walls of my homeland. And I ,, left solitary, alternating wandering and weeping for the past, shall teach pity to the cold rocks. Pray, see, o cruel people; how I retreat far from these beloved shores! Ah, blasphemous sorrow, you forbid my tears as I leave my country, I cannot shed a tear while bidding my kindred and Rome farewell!