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Ugo Benelli – “Amore e morte” (“Soirées d’automne à l’Infrascata”) Aria da camera – Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848).

DECCA Studio Recording “Most Wanted Recital!” – “Romantic Songs by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti – Lydia Marimpietri & Ugo Benelli & Enrico Fabbro” – ℗ 1967
Recorded at the Accademia di S. Cecilia – Roma (I) – July 1967.

Ugo Benelli Tenor
M.° Enrico Fabbro Piano.

“Ugo Benelli (born 20 January 1935) is an Italian operatic tenor. Born in Genoa and trained at La Scala, Benelli had an international career singing leading tenore di grazia roles from the early 1960s through the 1980s. In his later years he sang character roles and began a career as a singing teacher. He retired from the stage in 2005.”
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“Amore e morte”
Versi di Giovanni Antonio Luigi Redaelli (1785-1815)

Odi di un uom che muore,
odi l’estremo suon:
quest’appassito fiore
ti lascio, Elvira, in don.
Quanto prezioso ei sia
tu dei saperlo appien;
nel dì che fosti mia
te lo involai dal sen.
Simbolo allor d’affetto,
or pegno di dolor;
torna a posarti in petto
questo appassito fior.
E avrai nel cor scolpito,
se duro il cor non è,
come ti fu rapito,
come ritorna a te.

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“Love and Death”
Lyrics by Giovanni Antonio Luigi Redaelli (1785-1815)

Hear the words of a dying man,
hear the last sound:
this faded flower
I leave to you, Elvira.
How precious it is
you must know:
the day you became mine,
I stole it from your bosom.
Then a symbol of affection,
now it is a pledge of sorrow:
put back on your breast
this faded flower.
And you will have engraved on your heart,
if your heart is not hard,
not as it was stolen from you,
but as returned to you.