Songtexte The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Maria Was Unmasked At a Masked Ball" - Bryan Drake feat. Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Luxon & Sir Peter Pears

Maria was unmasked at a masked ball

Celia was not found at all

Flavius is still searching for her

And Maximus found that his wife, Donata

Had been served by some Sicilian actor

Sophia's silver chastity belt was worn by her coachman as a collar

Melita lay after a midnight bout to drunkards give a clear account

Patricia laid naked with a Negro

She told Junius she'd been having massage

You were fools to go at all

Fools to set the honor of your wives against a drunken bent

I warned you not to go

Why should you complain?

We found Lucretia safe at home

The only wife who stood the test

And Collatinus has won the bet

And Junius is a cuckold, and Junius is a cuckold

A cuckold without a claw, and Junius is a coward

So are you too, Tarquinius, since you've

Made the whole of Rome your brothel

My wife's untrue, but so is yours

Oh, you're unmarried can only know the constancy of whores

You forget, I am the prince of Rome

But I at least am Roman

With a Negro deputy in bed, it's better

To be Etruscan, a spendthrift, usurer

Lector

Eunuch

Flatter

Upstart

You young sod

You are a man

You licentious lard

This is, save your swords till we reach the Greeks

Let us drink, Prince Tarquinius, a toast to

The chaste Lucretia, to the lovely Lucretia

Lucretia

Lucretia, Lucretia, I'm sick of that name

Lucretia

I'm sick of that name

Lucretia

Her virtue is the measure of my shame

Lucretia

The whole of Rome will laugh at me

Or what is worse, will pity me

Will pity me

Lucretia

Oh, it is plain that nothing pleases

Your friends so much as your disorder

For now they can indulge in chatter

And patronize you with their patter

And if by chance you lose your temper

They say they'd tease an older human

Tomorrow the city urchins will sing my name to school

And call each other Junius, Junius instead of fool

Collatinus will gain my fame with the Roman mob, not

Because of battles he has won, but because Lucretia

Teased, and the Romans, being wanton, worship chastity

Lucretia

Autor(en): Benjamin Britten, Andre Obey, Ronald Duncan

Album Britten Conducts Britten: Opera Vol. 2

Veröffentlichungsdatum

01-01-1993

1 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: Introduction: The Wood
2 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Was I Wrong to Come?"
3 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation II - Scene 3: The Letter
4 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XV - Scene 8: Miles
5 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"
6 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XII - Scene 5: Quint
7 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Now a Roundel and a Fairy Song"
8 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Be Kind and Courteous to This Gentleman"
9 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Interlude: Here in This Scene"
10 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Epilogue: Is It All?"
11 The Turn of the Screw, Op.54: Interlude: Variation X - Scene 3: Miss Jessel
12 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VII - Scene 8: At Night
13 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Are We All Met?"
14 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Hey There, Hey There, You!"
15 Death in Venice, Op. 88: Overture: Venice
16 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "My Mind Beats On"
17 Death in Venice, Op. 88: Children's Games: "Adziu, Adziu"
18 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Wall, Fur Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"
19 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Mysterious Gondola"
20 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Puppet? Why So?"
21 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "There Is Indeed in Every Artist's Nature"
22 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XIII - Scene 6: The Piano
23 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VIII - Scene 1: Colloquy and So- Lioquy
24 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Collatinus Is Politically Astute"
25 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VI - Scene 7: The Lake
26 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Within This Frail Crucible of Light"
27 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Listen! I Heard a Knock"
28 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Their Spinning-wheel Unwinds"
29 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Time Treads Upon the Hands of Women"
30 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "The Oatmeal Slippers of Sleep"
31 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Lucretia!.What Do You Want?"
32 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "We'll Leave the Orchids for Lucretia"
33 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Flowers Bring to Every Year"
34 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Lucretia! Lucretia!"
35 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Last Night Tarquinius Ravished Me"
36 Phaedra, Op. 93: "In May, in Brilliant Athens"
37 Phaedra, Op. 93: "Oh Gods of Wrath"
38 Phaedra, Op. 93: "My Time's Too Short, Your Highness"
39 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Prologue
40 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Theme - Scene 1: The Journey
41 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation III - Scene 4: The Tower
42 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Maria Was Unmasked At a Masked Ball"
43 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "We Are Delighted to Greet the Signore"
44 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "My Horse! My Horse! Tarquinius Does Not Wait"
45 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"
46 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation IV - Scene 5: The Window
47 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation I - Scene 2: The Welcome
48 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation IX - Scene 2: The Bells
49 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Who Reaches Heaven First"
50 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"
51 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "The Prosperity of the Etruscans"
52 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "It Is an Axiom Among Kings"
53 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "She Sleeps As a Rose"
54 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I See Their Knavery"
55 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"
56 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Naturally, Signore, I Understand"
57 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Iff We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"
58 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "You Were Right"
59 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Oh! What a Lovely Day!"
60 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Have You Sent to Bottom's House?"
61 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "This Dead Hand Lets Fall"
62 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation V - Scene 6: The Lesson
63 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Ah, Serenissima!"
64 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XI - Scene 4: The Bedroom
65 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "How Now, Mad Spirit?"
66 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XIV - Scene 7: Flora
67 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: 'There Goes a Happy Man!'
68 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"
69 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"
70 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Up and Down, Up and Down"
71 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Hail, Mortal, Hail!"
72 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee for Thy Sunny Beams"
73 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Flower of This Purple Dye"
74 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"
75 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I Have a Reas'nable Good Ear in Music"
76 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Grim-look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"
77 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"
78 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Your Bergomask"
79 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Now, Fair Hippolyta"
80 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "This Is Thy Negligence"
81 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Asleep, My Love?"
82 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Tarquinius does not dare
83 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Here the thirsty evening
84 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart
85 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "On the Ground, Sleep Sound"
86 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Over Hill, Over Dale"
87 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"
88 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Well, Go Thy Way"
89 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "How Now My Love?"
90 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Be It On Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bull"
91 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Welcome Wanderer!"
92 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Is All Our Company Her?"
93 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring in the Wood"
94 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Through the Forest Have I Gone"
95 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"
96 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"
97 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Aou'! Stagando, Aou'"

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