Come un bel di maggio

Franco Corelli "Come un bel d di Maggio" from Andrea Chenier Giordano's opera

Today -29.october 2008 5th anniversary of Franco Corelli's death

Let's remember with honor one of the most gifted tenors ever on the 29th--may he rest in peace, which he had so little of in life.




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Come un bel dì di maggio
che con bacio di vento
e carezza di raggio,
si spegne in firmamento,
col bacio io d'una rima,
carezza di poesia,
salgo lestrema cima
dellesistenza mia.

La sfera che cammina
per ogni umana sorte
ecco giA mi avvicina,
all'ora della morte,
e forse pria che lultilma
mia strofa sia finita
mannuncierà il carnefice
la fine della vita.

Sia! Strofe, ultima Dea!
ancor dona al tuo poeta
la sfolgorante idea,
la fiamma consueta;
io, a te, mentre tu vivida
a me sgorghi dal cuore,
darò per rima,
il gelido spiro d'un uom che muore

Like a beautiful day in May



Like a beautiful day in May
that with a kiss from the wind
and a caress from a ray of sun,
it extinguishes on the horizon
so I, with a kiss from a rhyme,
a caress of poetry
climb up the extreme summit
of my existence.

The sphere that proceeds
for each human fate
here it is already bringing me near
to the hour of death
and perhaps before my last
strophe is finished
the executioner will announce to me
the finish of my life.

So be it. Strophe, ultimate goddess!
still you give to your poet
the brilliant idea
the flame familiar
I, to you, while you gush vividly
from my heart,
will offer for a rhyme
the ice cold breath of a man about to die.