![]() ![]() ![]() Who carried me away they brought me here by force, cruelly afraid. He went…my heart was rapt in the sweetest dreams, when suddenly the men broke in “I am a student and poor,” he said so tenderly, and with passionate fervor ![]() Furtively, only last night he came to meet me for the first time. Thou shalt remind me ever of the delights of love! In my thoughts, my desire will ever fly to thee, and my last breath of lifeĮach holy day, in church, as I prayed to God, a fatally handsome young man stood where I could see him…Though our lips were silent, our hearts spoke through our eyes. Gualtier Maldè… name of the man I love,īe thou engraved upon my lovesick heart! Beloved name, the first to move the pulse of love within my heart, Gilda is young and infatuated with this man and sings of the “caro nome”, the “dear name” of her new love. Rigoletto has kept his daughter hidden away to protect her, but Gilda (a young woman no more than 16-18 years old) has fallen in love with the Duke, who disguised himself as a poor student named Gualtier Maldè. “Caro nome”, one of the most famous soprano arias from Act 1 of the Italian opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. ![]()
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