Opera title: | Manon |
Composer: | Jules Massenet |
Language: | French |
Synopsis: | Manon Synopsis |
Libretto: | Manon Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Le Chevalier des Grieux |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 3.24 |
Previous scene: | Je suis seul |
Next scene: | Monsieur je veux parler a l'abbé |
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Richard Crooks sings "Ah! Fuyez, douce image" from Massenet's "Manon." This is from the January 13, 1940 Metropolitan Opera broadcast of the opera where Wilfred Pelletier conducted. Other cast members included Grace Moore (Manon), John Brownlee (Lescaut), Nicola Moscona (Count des Grieux), Alessio De Paolis (Guillot), George Cehanovsky (Bretigny), Annamary Dickey (Poussette), Maxine Stellman (Javotte), Lucielle Browning (Rosette), Louis D'Angelo (Innkeeper), Max Altglass (Guard), Arnold Gabor (Guard), and Gina Gola (Maid).
DES GRIEUX
Ah! fuyez, douce image, à mon âme trop chère;
respectez un repos cruellement gagné,
et songez si j'ai bu dans une voupe amère.
que mon cœur l'emplirait de ce qu'il a saigné!
Ah! fuyez! fuyez! loin de moi!
Que m'importe la vie et ce semblant de gloire?
Je ne veux que chasser du fond de ma mémoire...
Un nom maudit! … ce nom … qui m'obsède, et pourquoi?
LE PORTIER DU SÉMINAIRE
C'est l'office.
DES GRIEUX
J'y vais!... Mon Dieu!
De votre flamme
purifiez mon âme...
Et dissipez à sa lueur
l'ombre qui passe encor dans le fond de mon cœur!...
Ah! fuyez, douce image, à mon âme trop chère!
Ah fuyez! fuyez! loin de moi! etc.
Il sort.
LE PORTIER DU SÉMINAIRE
Il est jeune … et sa foi semble sincère …
il a fait grand émoi parmi les plus belles de nos fidèles!
DES GRIEUX
Ah! Vanish sweet memory too dear to my heart;
respect a calm won through much suffering,
and remember that if I have tasted of a bitter cup,
my heart could fill it full with the blood it has shed!
Ah! Vanish, vanish, go far from me!
Life itself and sham glory mean nothing to me.
I want only to expel from the depths of my memory...
A cursed name!... this name... which obsesses me, and why?
PORTER OF THE SEMINARY
The service is beginning.
DES GRIEUX
I'm on my way... Heavenly Father!
With Your fire
purify my soul!
and by its light dispel
the shadow that still lurks in the depths of my heart!
Ah! Vanish, sweet memory, too dear to my heart.
Vanish, vanish, go far away from me! etc.
exit
PORTER OF THE SEMINARY
He is young... and his faith appears sincere...
He created a great stir among the most
beautiful ladies among our faithful!
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