Opera title: | La Traviata |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | La Traviata Synopsis |
Libretto: | La Traviata Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | recitative |
Role(s): | Violetta Valéry |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 1.10 |
| Previous scene: | Ah! fors e lui che l'anima |
| Next scene: | Sempre libera |
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Verdi: La Traviata / Act 1 - "Follie! Delirio vano è questo!... Sempre libera" · Ileana Cotrubas · Plácido Domingo · Bavarian State Orchestra · Carlos Kleiber
Verdi: La Traviata - Highlights
â„— 1977 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1977-01-01
Producer: Dr. Hans Hirsch
Studio Personnel, Production Coordinator: Helen Kuzaj
Producer, Recording Producer: Hans Weber
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Klaus Behrens
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer: Klaus Scheibe
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Francesco Maria Piave
Author, Original Text Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Follie! follie delirio vano è questo!
Povera donna, sola
Abbandonata in questo
Popoloso deserto
Che appellano Parigi,
Che spero or più?
Che far degg'io!
Gioire,
Di voluttà nei vortici perire.
Sempre libera degg'io
Folleggiar di gioia in gioia,
Vo' che scorra il viver mio
Pei sentieri del piacer,
Nasca il giorno, o il giorno muoia,
Sempre lieta ne' ritrovi
A diletti sempre nuovi
Dee volare il mio pensier.
It's madness! It's empty delirium!
A poor, lonely woman
Abandoned in this teeming desert
They call Paris!
What can I hope? What should I do?
Enjoy myself! Plurge into the vortex
Of pleasure and drown there!
Enjoy myself!
Free and aimless I must flutter
From pleasure to pleasure,
Skimming the surface
Of life's primrose path.
As each day dawns,
As each day dies,
Gaily I turn to the new delights
That make my spirit soar.
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