Composer: Jules Massenet
Description: a young man, about 25 years old
Voice Part: baritone
Vocal Fach: lyric baritone
Arias:
Quelle prière de reconnaissance, Albert's aria from Werther
Elle maime!... elle pense à moi! She loves me!... she is thinking of me!
Quelle prière de reconnaissance et damour 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 quen 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)