Opera title: | Carmen |
Composer: | Georges Bizet |
Language: | French |
Synopsis: | Carmen Synopsis |
Libretto: | Carmen Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Also known as: | Flower Song |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Don José / Carmen |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 2.09 |
Previous scene: | Attends un peu, Carmen |
Next scene: | Hola! Carmen! |
Side A.
1. “Vesti la giubba”
(‘I pagliacci’ ; Leoncavallo)
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra
Conducted by Leone Magiera
2. “M’Apparì”
(‘Martha ; Flotow : Riese)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
3. Flower Song
(‘Carmen’ ; Bizet : Meilhac & Havély)
Vienna Volksoper Orchestra
Conducted by Leone Magiera
4. “Che gelida manina”
(‘La Boheme’ ; Puccini : Giacosa & Illica)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan
5. “La donna è mobile”
(‘Rigoletto’ ; Verdi : Piave)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
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JOSÉ
La fleur que tu m'avais jetée,
Dans ma prison m'était restée,
Flétrie et sèche, cette fleur
Gardait toujours sa douce odeur;
Et pendant des heures entières,
Sur mes yeux fermant mes paupières
De cette odeur je m'enivrais
Et dans la nuit je te voyais.
Je me prenais à te maudire
À te détester, à me dire:
Pourquoi faut-il que le destin
L'ait mise là sur mon chemin?
Puis je m'accusais de blasphème
Et je ne sentais en moi-même
Qu'un seul désir, un seul espoir,
Te revoir, ô Carmen, oui te revoir! …
Car tu n'avais eu qu'à paraître,
Qu'à jeter un regard sur moi
Pour t'emparer de tout mon être,
Ô ma Carmen.
Et j'étais une chose à toi.
Carmen, je t'aime!
JOSÉ
The flower you had thrown at me
In my prison I had stayed,
Withered and dry, this flower
Always kept its sweet smell;
And for hours,
On my eyes closing my eyelids
From this smell I would get drunk
And in the night I saw you.
I began to curse you
To hate you, to tell me:
Why must destiny
Put it there on my way?
Then I blamed myself for blasphemy
And I did not feel in myself
Only one desire, one hope,
To see you again, O Carmen, yes, see you again! ...
Because you had only to appear,
What to take a look at me
To take hold of all my being,
O my Carmen.
And I was a thing of you.
Carmen, I love you!
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