Svegliatevi nel core

Svegliatevi nel core is the famous aria

Aria

An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...

 taken from act 1, scene 1 of the Italian opera

Opera

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, "Giulio Cesare

Giulio Cesare

Giulio Cesare in Egitto , commonly known simply as Giulio Cesare, is an Italian opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel in 1724...

" by German-born British Baroque

Baroque

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 composer, Georg Friedrich Händel. The aria

Aria

An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...

 is written for the role “Sesto”, a soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 in trouser role

Breeches role

A breeches role is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing .In opera it also refers to any male character that is sung and acted by a female singer...

, including during the premiere, who sing it to assure his mother that he will avenge his father’s death (Pompey). Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great , was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic...

 was assassinated by the Egypt

Egypt

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ians, instructed by Tolomeo

Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

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 (Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator) to demonstrate Egyptians loyalty to Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

. The words were written by Nicola Francesco Haym

Nicola Francesco Haym

Nicola Francesco Haym was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer, and numismatist. He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini...

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The scene takes place at the bridge over the Nile

Nile

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 entering Alexandria

Alexandria

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, Egypt

Egypt

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at 48 B.C.

Libretto

Vani sono i lamenti

è tempo, o Sesto, ormai

di vendicar il padre

si svegli alla vendetta

l'anima neghittosa

che offesa da un tiranno invan riposa

Svegliatevi nel core furie d'un alma offesa a far d'un traditor aspra vendetta! L'ombra del genitore accorre a mia difesa e dice: a te il rigor Figlio si aspetta.	Awaken in my heart The wrath of an offended soul So I may wreak upon a traitor My bitter vengeance! The ghost of my father Hastens to my defense Saying, “From you, my son Ferocity is expected”