Extrait from "Lamento" (Pauline Viardot / Théophile Gaultier)
Piano: Anna Tilbrook
Voice: Katia Ledoux

Live Performance June 10th 2024
in London Inner Temple
by Opera Rara

@opera.rara and @templemusicfdn have just announced that they will be streaming the "Donizetti & his Parisian Friends" recital that I had the honour of singing in London a few weeks ago with the wonderful @annatilbrook on piano.
So mark your calendars for 28 July, because this repertoire (full of completely unknown art songs by Donizetti and many other songs by his contemporaries, friends and foes) was really something special to perform!
The link to the stream: [ Ссылка ]

I am so grateful to have had such a unique opportunity to curate and perform such a great recital between performances of "Andrea Chénier" during my stay in London.

Make-up by: @stankamakeup


Paroles / Text:

Ma belle amie est morte :
Je pleurerai toujours ;
Dans la tombe elle emporte
Mon âme et mes amours.
Dans le ciel, sans m'attendre,
Elle s'en retourna ;
L'ange qui l'emmena
Ne voulut pas me prendre.
Que mon sort est amer !
Ah ! sans amour, s'en aller sur la mer !

Sur moi la mer immense
S'étend comme un linceul ;
Je chante ma romance
Que le ciel entend seul.
Ah ! comme elle était belle,
Et comme je l'aimais !
Je n'aimerai jamais
Une femme autant qu'elle.
Que mon sort est amer !
Ah ! sans amour, s'en aller sur la mer !


English Translation by Richard Stokes:


My dearest love is dead:
I shall weep for evermore;
To the tomb she takes with her
My soul and all my love.
Without waiting for me
She has returned to Heaven;
The angel who took her away
Did not wish to take me.
How bitter is my fate!
Alas! to set sail loveless across the sea!

The immense night above me
Is spread like a shroud;
I sing my song
Which heaven alone can hear.
Ah! how beautiful she was,
And how I loved her!
I shall never love a woman
As I loved her.
How bitter is my fate!
Alas! to set sail loveless across the sea!

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