Thu-III. Farinelli Il Castrato - Lascia Ch'io Pianga (Handel)

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This beautiful and sad music video also shows the tragic scene from the movie of the young Farinelli being placed in a vat of lye, one of the methods of castration. The musical excerpt is from Handel's opera "Rinaldo".

Here are the lyrics in English:

Let me weep
Let me weep over my cruel fate,
And that I long for freedom!
And that I long, and that I long for freedom!
Let me weep over my cruel fate,
And that I long for freedom!

Let me weep over my cruel fate,
And that I long for freedom!
And that I long, and that I long for freedom!
Let me weep over my cruel fate,
And that I long for freedom!
Let me weep over my cruel fate,
And sigh for my lost freedom!
May the pain shatter the chains
of my torments just out of mercy.

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