Joyce DiDonato performs Lascia ch'io pianga from Handel's opera Rinaldo, HVW 7. Feel free to read or sing along!

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English translation:

Allow me to weep
for my cruel fate,
and to mourn
my lost freedom.

May my sorrow break
these chains,
if only out of pity
for my suffering.

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Mezzo-Soprano: Joyce DiDonato
Orchestra: Il pomo d'oro
Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev