Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Anna Moffo: Villa-Lobos, 'Bachianas Brasileiras' No. 5


Published on Jul 27, 2012
Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 -- March 9, 2006) was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Moffo


Lyrics & English Translation

(English translation)



Evening, a rosy, slow and transparent cloud

Over the space dreamy and beautiful

The Moon sweetly appears in the horizon,

Decorating the afternoon like a nice damsel

Who rushes and dreamy adorns herself

With an anxious soul to become beautiful

Shout all Nature to the Sky and to the Earth!

All birds become silent to the Moon's complains

And the Sea reflects its great splendor.

Softly, the shining Moon just awakes

The cruel missing that laughs and cries.

Evening, a rosy, slow and transparent cloud

Over the space dreamy and beautiful!



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