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Piangerò la sorte mia from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Yvonne Kenny, soprano Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Paul Dyer, conductor Piangerò la sorte mia, Sì crudele e tanto ria, Finché vita in petto avrò. Ma poi morta d’ogn’intorno Il tiranno e notte e giorno Fatta spettro agiterò. TRANSLATION: I shall bewail my fate, So cruel, so wicked, While I have life in my breast. And, after death, both night and day, Like an unquiet phantom, I shall hover around the tyrant! CD available from ABC Classics: Art in the video: [0:26] Cleopatra by Wilhelm Kotarbiński (1848–1921) [1:11] Cleopatra by Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895) [2:06] Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) [3:15] Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners by Alexandre Cabanel (
