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From:  Kate Reid <radishes@r...>
Date:  Mon Aug 7, 2000  4:50 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Song translations


Hello,

>
> Anyway, can anyone suggest where I can find accurate
> translations of the
> following (please forgive the mispellings):
>
> Belle Nuit
> Plaisir D'amour
> Sei Still Mein Hertz & Senzucht by Spohrs
> O Mio Babino
> Dovo Sono
> Visi D'arte
>

I do not have translations for all the songs above,
although here ones for the last three:
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Dove Sono

Where are the lovely moments
Of sweetness and pleasure?
Where have the promises gone
That came from those lying lips?
Why, if all is changed for me
Into tears and pain,
Has the memory of that goodness
Not vanished from my breast?
Ah! if only, at least, my faithfulness,
Which still loves amidst its suffering,
Could bring me the hope
Of changing that ungrateful heart!
_____________
O mio babbino caro

My dear father,
I like him, he's beautiful, beautiful;
I want to go to Porta Rossa
and buy the ring!
Yes, yes, I want to go!
And if my love is in vain,
I would go upon Ponte Vecchio [the old Bridge in Florence],
only to jump in the Arno
I long for him and torment myself
O God, I'd like to die!
Father, have pity, have pity!
_______________
Vissi d'arte

I lived for art; I lived for love
Never did I harm a living creature!
Whatever misfortunes I encountered,
I sought with secret hand to succour. . .
Always in pure faith
My prayers rose
in chapels,
Ever in pure faith,
I brought flowers to the alters.
In this, my hour of pain, why,
why, oh Lord, why
do you repay me like this?

Jewels I brought
for the Madonna's mantle
and songs for the stars in heaven
that they shone forth with greater radiance.
In this hour of distress, why,
why, oh Lord,
do you repay me like this?
_____________

Best of luck with your recital :)

-Kate

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