Va laisse couler mes larmes
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): | Charlotte |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano |
Act: | 3.04a |
| Previous scene: | Ah! le rire est beni |
| Next scene: | Les larmes qu'on ne pleure pas |
Nan Merriman: excerpts from Massenet's ''Werther'' - LIVE!
Singer(s): Liliane Berton Nan MerrimanHere are several excerpts from Act III of Massenet's opera "Werther" with the late American mezzo-soprano Nan Merriman (1920-2012) performing the role of Charlotte along with Georges Noré in the title role. Jules Gressier conducts this 1956 performance.
- "Va! laisse couler mes larmes"
- "Ah! mon courage m'abandonne!"
- "Oui! c'est moi! je reviens!"
- "Pourquoi me réveiller?"
- "N'achevez pas! hélas!"
Link to Merriman singing the ''Letter scene'' (Je vous écris de ma petite chambre) from this performance:
And here is a link to my Nan Merriman playlist:
Werther: Georges Noré
Charlotte: Nan Merriman
Albert: Robert Massard
Sophie: Liliane Berton
ORTF with Jules Gressier, conductor
Watch videos with other singers performing Va laisse couler mes larmes:
2 - Nora Sourouzian
2 - Sophie Koch
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Joyce DiDonato
2 - Elena Cernei
2 - Giulietta Simionato
2 - Géraldine Chauvet
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Catriona Morison
3 - Marie-Nicole Lemieux
1 - Anna Caterina Antonacci
2 - Elena Obraztsova
2 - Lucia Valentini Terrani
2 - Stéphanie d'Oustrac
2 - Frederica von Stade
2 - Fiorenza Cossotto
2 - Jennifer Larmore
2 - Conchita Supervía
2 - Ekaterina Semenchuk
1 - Leyla Gencer
2 - Sonia Ganassi
2 - Karine Deshayes
2 - Denyce Graves
2 - Denise Scharley
2 - Ruxandra Donose
2 - Brigitte Fassbaender
2 - Elīna Garanča
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
2 - Béatrice Uria-Monzon
1 - Magali Léger
1 - Ninon Vallin
2 - Régine Crespin
1 - Arleen Auger
2 - Elena Obraztsova
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Renata Tebaldi
1 - Lisette Oropesa
2 - Sophie Koch
1 - Emma Calvé
1 - Rosine Laborde
2 - Pauline Viardot
3 - Jeanne Gerville-Réache
1 - Isobel Buchanan
2 - Frederica von Stade
1 - Cheryl Studer
2 - Jennifer Larmore
1 - Dawn Kotoski
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
1 - Deborah Polaski
1 - Edda Moser
1 - Hendrikje Wangemann
1 - Kiri Te Kanawa
2 - Marga Schiml
2 - Vesselina Kasarova
2 - Waltraud Meier
1 - Liliane Berton
2 - Nan Merriman
1 - Lisette Oropesa
2 - Elena Obraztsova
2 - Susan Graham
1 - Mady Mesplé
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
Other videos of the same singers performing Va laisse couler mes larmes:
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
1 - Anna Caterina Antonacci
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Rosalind Elias
2 - Frederica von Stade
2 - Marilyn Horne
2 - Frederica von Stade
2 - Denise Scharley
2 - Sophie Koch
2 - Marilyn Horne
1 - Angela Gheorghiu
1 - Maria Callas
1 - Renata Tebaldi
1 - Lisette Oropesa
2 - Sophie Koch
1 - Cheryl Studer
2 - Jennifer Larmore
1 - Mady Mesplé
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
1 - Arleen Auger
2 - Elena Obraztsova
1 - Isobel Buchanan
2 - Frederica von Stade
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
CHARLOTTE(ne se contraignant plus)
Va! laisse couler mes larmes
(affectueusement)
elles font du bien, ma chérie!
Les larmes qu'on ne pleure pas,
dans notre âme retombent toutes,
et de leurs patientes gouttes
Martèlent le coeur triste et las!
Sa résistance enfin s'épuise; le coeur se creuse...
et s'affaiblit: il est trop grand, rien ne l'emplit;
et trop fragile, tout le brise! Tout le brise!
English Libretto or Translation:
CHARLOTTE(no longer binding)
Go!let my tears flow
(affectionately)
they do good, darling!
The tears we do not cry,
in our souls all fall,
and with their patient drops
Hammer the sad and weary heart!
His resistance is finally exhausted; the heart digs ...
and weakens: it is too big, nothing fills it;
and too fragile, all the breeze! All the breeze!
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