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Ernani! Ernani! involami All'abborrito amplesso. |
It ends with a brilliant cadenza, "Un Eden quegli antri a me" (An Eden that opens to me).
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un Eden quegli antri a me.
Young maidens bearing wedding gifts enter. They sing a chorus of congratulation. To this Elvira responds with a graceful air, the sentiment of which, however, is expressed as an aside, since it refers to her longing for her young, handsome and chivalrous lover. "Tutto sprezzo che d'Ernani" (Words that breathe thy name Ernani).
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Tutto sprezzo che d'Ernani