Signor, quell'infelice (Claudio Monteverdi - L'Orfeo)

Maya Kherani, Soprano https://www.mayakherani.com/ Jon Mendle, Theorbo https://jonmendle.com/ Ben Kazez, Audio engineering and video production https://www.benkazez.com/engineering/ Recorded at Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA --- Translation: PROSERPINA My lord, this unhappy man who wanders through these vast fields of death, crying "Eurydice!", and whom you too have just heard making such a sweet lament, has aroused such pity in my heart that once again I return to beseech your Godliness to accede to his entreaties. Oh, if ever you have drawn the sweetness of love from these eyes, if the serenity of this brow has pleased you that you call your heaven, and on which you swear not to envy Jove his lot, I implore you, by that fire with which Love set your great soul aflame, permit Eurydice to return to enjoy those days that she used to spend in festivity and song, and console the grief of the wretched Orpheus. #baroque #soprano #monteverdi #opera #theorbo #seicento #lorfeo #proserpina #operasinger #earlymusic #classicalmusic #classicalmusician #instaclassical #baroquemusic