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Quelle priere de reconnaissance
from Act I of the French opera Werther by Jules Massenet
Libretto: Edouard Blau

Role: Albert, a young man, about 25 years old
Voice Part: baritone       Fach: lyric baritone
Setting: the garden outside the Magistrate's house, Frankfurt, Germany, 1780
Synopsis: Sophie has just told Albert that her father wishes Charlotte and Albert to be married. He sings of his joy in finding that he will be marrying the girl he loves.
Range: Tessitura:
D3 - D#/Eb4D#/Eb3 - D#/Eb4
Translations/Aria Texts:
Translation into English by Lea Frey (added 2000-06-02)
Quelle prière de reconnaissance, Albert's aria from Werther

Elle m’aime!...  elle pense à moi! 		She loves me!...  she is thinking of me!

Quelle prière de reconnaissance et d’amour 	What a prayer of appreciation and of love
monte de mon coeur à ma bouche! 		Rises from  my  heart  to  my  mouth!
Oh!  Comme à  l’ heure du retour 		Oh!  How at the hour of return
un rien nous émeut et nous touche... 		The least little thing moves and touches us...
et comme tout possede un charme pénétrant!	And how everythingpossesses a penetrating charm!
Ah!  je voudrais qu’en rentrant 		Ah!  I would like , on coming home,
Charlotte retrouvât les pensées que je laisse:	For Charlotte to find the thoughts 
							that I leave behind:
Tout mon espoir et toute ma tendresse! 		All of my hope and all of my tenderness!

Translation by Lea Frey (blfrey@earthlink.net)
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