Anna Netrebko: Bellini - La Sonnambula, 'Come per me serena'
Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко, born 18 September 1971) is a Russian operatic soprano. She now holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and currently resides in Vienna. She has been nicknamed "La Bellissima" by fans. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar (Russia), in a family of Kuban Cossack background. While a student at the Saint Petersburg conservatoire, Netrebko worked as a janitor at Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. Later, she auditioned for the Mariinsky Theatre, where conductor Valery Gergiev recognized her from her prior work in the theater. He subsequently became her vocal mentor. Under Gergiev's guidance, Netrebko made her operatic stage debut at the Mariinsky at age 22, as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She went on to sing many prominent roles with the Kirov Opera, including Amina in La sonnambula, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. In 1994, she sang the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with the Riga Independent Opera Avangarda Akadēmija under conductor David Milnes. In March 2007, Netrebko announced that she would be an ambassador for SOS Children's Village in Austria, and be a sponsor for the Tomilino village in Russia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Net...
Lyrics & English Translation
AMINA
Dear companions,
and you, my friends,
who understand and
share my happiness,
oh how sweetly is
Amina's heart
affected by these songs
which love inspired!
VILLAGERS
May you be happy!
We all wish you that, Amina.
AMINA
Dear and tender mother
to whom I,
an orphan, owe this happy day,
may these tears of joy,
welling from my heart
rather than from my eyes,
speak my feelings to you
Companions, loving friends...
oh, mother! How happy I am!
How brightly this day
dawned for me!
How the earth blossomed,
lovelier than ever before!
Never, never has the face of nature
smiled with such radiane;
love transfigured it,
the love of my beloved.
VILLAGERS
May heaven o happy Amina,
may heaven always strew
flowers upon the path
of all your future days.
AMINA
Place your hand
here upon my breast
and feel how wildly it throbs:
that is my heart,
which cannot contain
the happiness it feels.
A link to this wonderful artists personal Website: http://www.annanetrebko.com/
Please enjoy!
I send my kind and warm regards,