Je ne sais si je veille
Opera details:
Opera title: | Werther |
Composer: | Jules Massenet |
Language: | French |
Synopsis: | Werther Synopsis |
Libretto: | Werther Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Werther |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 1.05b |
| Previous scene: | Alors c'est bien ici |
| Next scene: | O nature plein de grace |
Jules Massenet – WERTHER – ‘Ô nature pleine de grâce’ (Georges Thill)
Singer: Georges ThillWERTHER
Drame lyrique en 4 actes et 5 tableaux
Composer: Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
Libretto : Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet et Georges Hartmann, after Goethe’s ‘Die Leiden des jungen Werthers’ (1774)
First performance: Imperial Theatre Hofoper, Vienna, 16 February 1892 (in German).
First performance in France: Théatre Lyrique, Paris, 16 January 1893
SETTING: Wetzlar, near Frankfurt, July–December 178–.
PLOT: Werther, a young poet, loves Charlotte, but she promised her dying mother that she will marry Albert. Werther leaves in despair. He returns and tries to persuade Charlotte to leave her husband. The young woman heroically resists and Werther shoots himself. Charlotte finds him dying, and declares her love.
No. 1 – Invocation à la nature: ‘Je ne sais si je veille.—Ô nature, pleine de grâce’
The idealistic young poet Werther, lost in rapture, contemplates the house where his beloved Charlotte lives.
Werther, 23 ans (tenor) : Georges Thill
Conductor: Elie Cohen
Paris Chorus & Orchestra
Paris, January 1931
Watch videos with other singers performing Je ne sais si je veille:
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Giuseppe Filianoti
5 - Georges Thill
5 - Francisco Araiza
5 - Roberto Alagna
5 - José Luccioni
5 - César Vezzani
5 - Sébastien Guèze
5 - Ernesto Palacio
5 - Raoul Jobin
5 - José Carreras
5 - Marcelo Álvarez
5 - Alain Vanzo
5 - Cesare Valletti
5 - Francesco Meli
5 - Plácido Domingo
5 - Charles Friant
5 - Henri Legay
5 - Ferruccio Tagliavini
5 - Plácido Domingo
6 - Bryn Terfel
2 - Rosalind Elias
1 - Ninon Vallin
5 - Georges Thill
5 - André Mallabrera
5 - Nicolai Gedda
6 - Jean-Christophe Benoît
6 - Roger Soyer
5 - Pietro Ballo
6 - Robert Carr
Other videos of the same singers performing Je ne sais si je veille:
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Giuseppe Filianoti
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Giuseppe Filianoti
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Giuseppe Filianoti
5 - Alfredo Kraus
5 - Roberto Alagna
5 - Georges Thill
5 - Georges Thill
5 - José Luccioni
5 - Marcelo Álvarez
5 - Cesare Valletti
5 - Georges Thill
5 - José Luccioni
5 - Georges Thill
5 - José Luccioni
5 - Alain Vanzo
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
WERTHERJe ne sais si je veille ou si je rêve encore!Tout ce qui m'environne a l'air d'un paradis;le bois soupire ainsi qu'une harpe sonore,Un monde se révèle à mes yeux éblouis!O nature, pleine de grâce,Reine du temps et de l'espaceDaigne accueillir celui qui passe et ta salue,Humble mortel!Mystérieux silence!O calme solennel!Tout m'attire et me plaît!Ce mur, et ce coin sombre...Cette source limpide et la fraîcheur de l'ombre;il n'est pas une haie, il n'est pas un buisson où n'éclose unefleur,où ne passe un frisson!O nature! enivre-moi de parfums,Mère éternellement jeune, adorable et pure!O nature!Et toi, soleil, viens m'inonder de tes rayons!English Libretto or Translation:
WERTHERI do not know if I'm watching or dreaming again!Everything that surrounds me looks like a paradise;the wood sighs as well as a sound harp,A world is revealed to me dazzled!O nature, full of grace,Queen of time and spaceDeign to welcome the one who passes and greets you,Humble mortal!Mysterious silence!O solemn calm!Everything attracts me and I like it!This wall, and this dark corner ...This limpid source and the freshness of the shadow;it is not a hedge, it is not a bush where no flower blooms,where does a shiver go!O nature! intoxicate me with perfumes,Mother eternally young, adorable and pure!O nature!And you, sun, come and flood me with your rays!This is a partly automated translation. Please help us with corrections or provide us with a complete new translation. We will gladly mention the translator. Contact
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