ΜΝΗΜΗ ΜΠΕΡΛΙΟΖ

Hector Berlioz

(11 Δεκεμβρίου 1811- 1869)

Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights)

Opéra royal du château de Versailles
April 2011
Anne Sofie von Otter - mezzo-soprano
Marc Minkowski - conductor
Les Musiciens du Louvre

 On the Lagoons. Lament

 ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΥ ΣΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ

My belovéd is dead:

Evermore will I weep;

Within her graveyard bed

My soul, my love she’ll keep.

Heav'n-bound without me, she

Hath there return'd once more;

The angel who her bore,

Alas, would not bear me.

        My bitter destiny!

        Ah! Without love, to go once more to sea!

Wherefore the white creature

Is in her coffin laid,

And the whole of nature

In mourning seems array'd.

The dove cries out, forlorn:

Of her now gone he dreams;

Yet weeps my soul, which seems

Itself in pieces torn.

        My bitter destiny!

        Ah! Without love, to go once more to sea!

Night’s vast sky hangs draping

Like a death-shroud o’er me;

My lovelorn song I sing

Yet heard by heaven only.

Ah! She indeed was fair,

And I loved naught but her!

I shall love no other

As much: none doth compare.

        My bitter destiny!

        Ah! Without love, to go once more to sea!