Ghena Dimitrova: Verdi - Macbeth, 'Una macchia è qui tuttora!'

Ghena Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Гeна Димитpова) (6 May 1941--11 June 2005) was a Bulgarian operatic soprano. Her voice was known for its power and extension used in operatic roles such as Turandot in a career spanning four decades. She started singing in the school choir and her powerful voice led to her being offered a place at the Sofia Conservatory studying under Cristo Brambarov between 1959 and 1964. While she was initially classified as a mezzo-soprano, she was recognised as a soprano in her second year. She made her Italian debut as Turandot in Treviso in 1975, and essayed the same role for her 1983 La Scala debut opposite tenor Plácido Domingo in Franco Zeffirelli's lavish production. Her Turandot is also preserved in a video of the Arena di Verona production from 1983, with Nicola Martinucci and Cecilia Gasdia. In 1988, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York performing the same role. Dimitrova once said of the role: "Turandot may not be my favorite part, but it shows off the voice to great advantage. The way the music is written, you need a voice like a trumpet to do it justice." Her debut in the United States was in 1981 performing the role of Elvira in Ernani. She sang at the Barbican Arts Centre in Ponchielli's La Gioconda in 1983 before making her Covent Garden debut in the same year... en.wikipedia.or...
Lyrics & English Translation
LADY MACBETH
There's still a spot here.
Away, I tell you, curse you!
One, two, it is time!
Are you shaking? Don't you dare go in?
A soldier and so cowardly?
Shame! Come on, hurry!
Who would have thought that there would be
So much blood in that old man?
DOCTOR
What did she say?
LADY MACBETH
The Thane of Fife
Was he not recently a husband and father?
What happened?
GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
Oh, horror!
LADY MACBETH
(looking at her hands)
Shall I never be able
To clean these hands?
There's still human blood here.
The perfumes
Of all Arabia could not clean
This little hand.
Alas!
DOCTOR
Is she moaning?
LADY MACBETH
Put on your nightgown.
Come on, wash yourself!
Banquo is dead and no-one
Has ever come back from the grave...
DOCTOR
This too?
LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed ...
What's done cannot be undone.
Someone is knocking! Come on, Macbeth,
Do not let your pallor accuse you.
GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
Oh, horror!
Heaven, have mercy on her!
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