Tenor aria from Faust (1859, revised 1869), a French grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré’s play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s Faust, Part 1.

Aria setup: In Act 3, Dr. Faust (tenor), an aging scholar who bought youth from Méphistophélès’ with his own service to the devil, Mephistophele, sings a cavatina (Salut, demeure chaste et pure) about nature’s wonderful creation of his love, Marguerite.

Sung by:

Nicholai Gedda – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m_Jas-OEFE&feature=related

Alfredo Kraus – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDHZUcvvr4M

Giacomo Aragall – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI6NYORa9-U

Giuseppe Di Stefano – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOktnGD8G_0&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre?                          是什么莫名其妙的烦恼渗透了我?

Je sens l’amour s’emparer de mon être!                    我觉得被爱情控制了! 

Ô Marguerite, à tes pieds me voici!                        噢, 玛嘉烈, 我就在这儿拜你石榴裙下! 

Salut! demeure chaste et pure,                             纯美的香宅, 你好! 

Salut! demeure chaste et pure,                             纯美的香宅, 你好!  

Où se devine la présence                                   存在这里的是 

d’une âme innocent et divine!                              一颗天真和神圣的灵魂!

Que de richesse en cette pauvreté!                       这里的贫乏是多么富裕!

En ce réduit, que de félicité!                             这里的缺乏是多么愉快! 

Que de richesse,                                           多么丰裕, 

Que de richesse en cette pauvreté!                       这里的贫乏是多么丰裕!

Ô nature, C’est là                                         噢, 大自然, 那就在这里 

que tu la fis si belle!                                   那是你把她造得这般漂亮! 

C’est là que cet enfant                                    这个孩子就在这里 

A dormi sous ton aile,                                     睡在你翼下,

A grandi sous tes yeux.                                    在你眼底成长.

Là que de ton haleine                                      在这里你的气息 

Enveloppant son âme                                        包裹她的灵魂,

Tu fis avec l’amour épanouir la femme                      用你的爱把这妞苞放 

En cet ange des cieux!                                     成来自天堂的天使! 

C’est là!  Oui, c’est là!                                  那就成了! 是的, 就是那样! 

Salut! demeure chaste et pure,                             纯美的香宅, 你好! 

Salut! demeure chaste et pure,           纯美的香宅, 你好! 

Où se devine la présence                                   存在这里的是 

d’une âme innocente et divine!                             一个天真和神圣的灵魂! 

Salut, salut, demeure chaste et pure, etc.                 纯美的香宅, 你好,… 

<让我哭泣>

Soprano aria from Rinaldo (HWV 7), an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.The Italian libretto was written by Giacomo Rossi, based on episodes of Torquato Tasso‘s Gerusalemme liberata (“Jerusalem Delivered”). It is a heroic story of battle and love set in the time of the First Crusade (1096–1099).—fr. “Wikipedia”

Aria setup: Almirena (soprano), who is in love with the knight Rinaldo, has been abducted by the sorceress Armida and imprisoned. In a beautiful garden in Armida’s enchanted palace, Almirena laments her captivity (Act II).

Renditions by:

Marilyn Horne (mezzo) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOZHQEux5c,

Suzie LeBlanc (soprano) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiq0meAPOgs&feature=related, and

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRHJXDxQJL4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译

“親爱的夫人，名冊在这里” (意) 罗兰素.達旁提 譜词

莫扎特歌剧<唐.吉奧凡尼>男低音咏叹調

Bass aria from Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni), an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Giovanni)

Aria setup: In Act 1 scene 5 Don Giovanni’s (=Don Juan’s) sidekick, Leporello (bass), sings this Catalogue Aria to boast his master’s conquests to Donna Elvira.

Renditions by:

Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeyElCHRM8

José van Dam (bass-baritone) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LczenCYK8No

Hermann Prey (baritone) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoMZSSNqUU

Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译

Madamina, il catalogo è questo
Delle belle che amò il padron mio;
un catalogo egli è che ho fatt’io;
Osservate, leggete con me.

親爱的夫人，名冊在这里。

內有我老闆愛过的可人儿。

它是我编集的。

聽着，跟我唸一下。
In Italia seicento e quaranta;
In Alemagna duecento e trentuna;
Cento in Francia, in Turchia novantuna;
Ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre.

意大利有一百四十人；

德国二百卅一亇；

一百亇在法国；土耳其九十一人；

但是在西班牙就已经有千三。

V’han fra queste contadine,
Cameriere, cittadine,
V’han contesse, baronesse,
Marchesine, principesse.
E v’han donne d’ogni grado,
D’ogni forma, d’ogni età.

她們其中有乡村姑娘，

女僕，城市姑娘，

女伯爵，男爵夫人，

女候爵，公主，

各階层的女人，

各色各样，老少皆全。

Nella bionda egli ha l’usanza
Di lodar la gentilezza,
Nella bruna la costanza,
Nella bianca la dolcezza.

对金发女郎他習惯

嘉许她的溫情;

棕发的忠诚；

白发的甜蜜。

Vuol d’inverno la grassotta,
Vuol d’estate la magrotta;
È la grande maestosa,
La piccina è ognor vezzosa.

在冬天他要丰滿的，

在夏天他要消瘦的，

高大的是壯丽的，

細小的总是充滿魅力。

Delle vecchie fa conquista
Pel piacer di porle in lista;
Sua passion predominante
È la giovin principiante.

他誘惑年老的

乐以加上名冊。

他最喜愛的

是少女。

Non si picca — se sia ricca,
Se sia brutta, se sia bella;
Purché porti la gonnella,
Voi sapete quel che fa.

她是否有錢财全无关系，

是醜是美，

只要她是穿裙子的，

你知道他会怎麼办。

Don Giovanni's (baritone) serenade from Act 2 of Don Giovanni (K. 527; complete title: Il dissoluto
punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni), an opera in two acts
with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Setup: Don Giovanni serenades Donna Elvira’s maid under her window to seduce her.

Renditions by:

Samuel Remey – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-13t581Fzc

Ruggero Raimondi – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZa1mEVFfhk

Dmitri Hvorostovsky -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vnjUX_Dns&feature=related

Tr. YK Chan 陳耀國译

Deh, vieni alla finestra, o mio tesoro,          哎, 我亲爱的, 你到窗前来;

Deh, vieni a consolar il pianto mio.             哎, 来安慰我的忧伤吧!

Se neghi a me di dar qualche ristoro,            假如你不慰藉我的话,

Davanti agli occhi tuoi morir vogl'io!           我就会在你眼前死去.

Tu ch'hai la bocca dolce più del miele,          你的口唇比蜜糖更甜,

Tu che il zucchero porti in mezzo al core!       你内心就带着糖般甜美.

Non esser, gioia mia, con me crudele!            我之喜爱, 那你就不要这样残忍,

Lasciati almen veder, mio bell'amore!            我的至爱, 我只求你让我一瞥你的美藐!

A seductive duet sung by Zerlina (soprano) and Don Giovanni (baritone), the title role of Don Giovanni
(K. 527;complete title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or
Don Giovanni),an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian
libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

In this duet, Don Giovanni targets at Zerlina (soprano, a peasant bride) in Act 1.  It is featured in the Danish film “Barbette’s Feast (1987)”.

Renditions by:

Christine Schafer & Simon Keenlyside (in concert) –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBPo0AJ-2Y

Hei-Kyung Hong & Bryn Terfel – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqPcb1nKZYg&feature=related

Renee Fleming & Dmitri Hvorostovsky (in concert) –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iZHwbxLBO0&feature=related

Dawn Upshaw & Samuel Ramey—

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ7PKtS2BR8&NR=1

Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译

Die Forelle, Op.32 (D.550), is a lively lied written in 1817 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). This immensely popular piece is for solo voice and piano. The lyrics are from the first three (of four) stanzas of a poem by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. The piece is written with a Varied Strophic structure, meaning the “verse music” is generally the same, with one different verse.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Forelle]

Renditions by –

Ian Bostridge (tenor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-TXzUlJhs&feature=related

Hermann Prey (baritone): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arlDs0oebkQ&feature=related

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aUdoNxEeY&feature=related

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH611kqRLVc&feature=related

• The song is the basis of a set of variations in the fourth movement of Schubert’s Trout Quintet in A major (D.667) which dates from 1819.  Listen to the Recording of full quintet by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Quintet]

 In einem Bächlein helle,
Da schoß in froher Eil
Die launische Forelle
Vorüber wie ein Pfeil.
Ich stand an dem Gestade
Und sah in süßer Ruh
Des muntern Fischleins Bade
Im klaren Bächlein zu.

Ein Fischer mit der Rute
Wohl an dem Ufer stand,
Und sah’s mit kaltem Blute,
Wie sich das Fischlein wand.
So lang dem Wasser Helle,
So dacht ich, nicht gebricht,
So fängt er die Forelle
Mit seiner Angel nicht.

Doch endlich ward dem Diebe
Die Zeit zu lang. Er macht
Das Bächlein tückisch trübe,
Und eh ich es gedacht,
So zuckte seine Rute,
Das Fischlein zappelt dran,
Und ich mit regem Blute
Sah die Betrogene an.

Die ihr am goldenen Quelle

Der sicheren Jugend weilt,

Denkt doch an die Forelle,

 Seht ihr Gefahr, so eilt!

Meist fehlt ihr nur aus Mangel

 der Klugheit, Mädchen, seht

Verführer mit der Angel!

Sonst blutet ihr zu spät!

 Tr. Walter Meyer

Across a clear brook gentle,

There shot in eager haste

The trout, so temperamental;

Quite arrow-like it raced.

I on the shore was gazing

And watched the brook disclose

The merry fish’s bathing

To me in sweet repose.

An angler’s reel unrolled

From where he stood below.

He watched with blood most cold

The fish swim to and fro.

So long no stone or sod

Stirred up the water pure

The trout from line and rod

Would stay, I thought, secure.

At length the thief lost patience

And made the brook obscure

With crafty agitations,

And ere I could be sure

The rod had started curving;

The squirming fish was hooked.

With pounding blood observing,

At the betrayed, I looked.

You, at the fountain golden,

Of youth, so free from doubt,

Be to the trout beholden;

At danger’s sign, clear out!

‘Tis oft for want of reason

That maids will shun the straight.

Beware the anglers’ treason

Else you may bleed too late!

from Bizet’s opera Carmen

Franco Corelli as Don Jose'

(法) 比才之歌剧<卡门>男高音咏叹調<你扔给我的花>

Tenor aria from Carmen, a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin普希金.Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852. [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen]

Aria setup: In Act II Don José, a Spanish corporal, is released from prison and goes to meet his gypsy lover Carmen, a cigarette factory girl.  Carmen is mad at him for obeying military order to immediately returning to the quarters.  To convince her of his love, he shows her the flower that she threw to him at their first encounter.

Renditions by:

Franco Corelli – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKQm-CdH3QA&feature=related

Nicolai Gedda – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbvxPbhazHA

Tr. YK Chan 陈耀国译

A poem by Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885), from his play Marie Tudor, Journée 1, Scene 5.  Several composers have set it to song.  This one below is by Charles Gounod (1818-1893) 古诺, published as “Sérénade” in1857 for voice, piano, and harmonium or violoncello ad libitum.

Sung by sopranos:

Joan Sutherland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEdKzUm-sc [In this rendition, the second stanza is omitted.]

Sumi Jo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CF2A-7ft8&NR=1

Liping Zhang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkXbFZNet1o&feature=related

Tr. YK Chan            陈耀国译

Dormez, ma belle, dormez toujours!

Quand tu chantes, bercée

当你歌唱, 整晚躺在

Le soir entre mes bras,

我怀抱中,

Entends-tu ma pensée

你听到我的思语

Qui te répond tout bas?

轻轻地回应你吗?

Ton doux chant me rappelled

你甜蜜的吟咏唤起了

Les plus beaux de mes jours.

我最美好的日子.

Chantez, ma belle,

唱吧, 我的可人儿,

Chantez toujours!

你永远的唱吧!

[ L’ homme c’ est mon homme. La Voix

elle s’ approche à chaque couplet. ]¹

Quand tu ris, sur ta bouche

当你欢笑时, 从你嘴唇上

L’amour s’épanouit,

爱情怒放,

Et soudain le farouche

随即那残痛的

Soupçon s’évanouit.

怀疑便自行消失.

Ah! le rire fidèle

啊! 真诚的欢笑

prouve un coeur sans détours!

显出了无偏巧的心!

Riez, ma belle,

欢笑吧, 我的可人儿,

Riez, toujours!

你永远的欢笑吧!

Quand tu dors, calme et pure,

当你宁静真纯地安睡,

dans l’ombre, sous mes yeux,

在黑影里, 於我眼底,

ton haleine murmure

你的呼吸咕哝着

des mots harmonieux.

和洽的字语.

Ton beau corps se révèle

你美丽的身段显现

sans voile et sans atours… –

并无纱罩和饰物… –

dormez, ma belle,

睡吧, 我的可人儿,

dormez toujours!

你永远的睡吧!

[ Quand tu me dis: je t’ aime !

ô ma beauté! Je croi !

Je crois que le ciel même

s’ ouvre au-dessus de moi!

Ton regard étincelle

du beau feu des amours… –

aimez, ma belle,

aimez toujours!

Vois-tu? Toute la vie

tient dans ces quatre mots,

tous les biens qu’ on envie,

tous les biens sans les maux!

Tout ce qui peut séduire

tout ce qui peut charmer… –

chanter et rire,

dormir, aimer!]¹