Pavarotti sings Un’aura amorosa (Mozart)

Luciano Pavarotti sings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Un’aura amorosa (English: “A loving breath”), a famous aria from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588 an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte, who also wrote Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. From the 1988 Lincoln Center recital with James Levine on the piano.

Pavarotti sings Un’aura amorosa (Mozart). From the 1988 Lincoln Center recital with James Levine.

Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti[a] (All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an opera buffa (“comic opera”) in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by the Italian opera libretist Lorenzo Da Ponte (10 March 1749 – 17 August 1838) who also wrote the libretti of Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and Don Giovanni.

Un’aura amorosa Lyrics

Italian

Un’aura amorosa
Del nostro tesoro
Un dolce ristoro
Al cor porgerà;

Al cor che, nudrito
Da speme, da amore,
Di un’esca migliore
Bisogno non ha.

English translation

A breath of love
From our treasures
Will offer sweet sustenance
To our hearts

A heart nourished
By hope, by love
Has no need
Of a greater lure.

Sources

M. Özgür Nevres

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