- Music
- Pietro Mascagni
- Text
- Antonio Ghislanzoni
- Completed
- 1883
- Scoring & Form
- For voice and piano.
- Published Editions
- Complete Works for Voice and Piano, Vol. I (ed. Cesare Orselli, Boccaccini & Spada); Musiche Vocali Italiane da Camera VIII
Pena d'amore
Song · “Love’s sorrows” · 1883
Song Synopsis
Why did God make you so beautiful? Perhaps if you were less beautiful, I would have loved you less and suffered less. Why were you not born far away from the country where I was born and raised. Then I should never have seen you, loved you, suffered. Yet I would not wish you less beautiful, and I would not want the sea to separate us. Ah, if seeing and loving you causes great suffering, then not to see you again would be to die!
Audio Excerpts (2)
Pena d'amore · Recording #501028 — January 29-30, 1998, Music Theatre of the School of Music, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Patricia Wright (Soprano) · David Vine (Piano)
Pena d'amore · Recording #507384 — March 20, 2004, Roosevelt, New Jersey
Alan Mallach (Piano) · Cheri Rose Katz (Mezzo Soprano)
Recordings (6)
| Cover | Performance Date & Place | Recording & Cast | Label / Code | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1989? Studio | Recital Alfredo Kraus (Tenor), Adelmiro Arnaltes (Piano) | Capriccio 10 272 | |
December 5-7, 1994 Musikverein, Vienna Live | Serenata - Live in Vienna at the Musikverein José Carreras (Tenor), Lorenzo Bavaj (Piano) | Erato 4509-98510-2 | ||
 | July 1995 Sala Ceccherini, Florence | Liriche per Canto e Pianoforte Anastasia Tomaszewska-Schepis (Soprano), Angel Rodrigues (Tenor), Fausta Cianti (Piano) | Bongiovanni GB 2235-2 | |
 | January 29-30, 1998 Music Theatre of the School of Music, University of Auckland, New Zealand Studio | Songs by Italian Composers♪ Audio Patricia Wright (Soprano), David Vine (Piano) | Atoll A9803 | |
April 2001 Auditorium Aragonite, Manno, Switzerland Studio | Pietro Mascagni - Melodies and Songs Fausto Tenzi (Tenor), Roberto Negri (Piano) | Arts 47636-2 | ||
 | March 20, 2004 Roosevelt, New Jersey Live | The Unknown Mascagni♪ Audio Alan Mallach (Piano), Cheri Rose Katz (Mezzo Soprano) | [Private] N/A |