Libiamo ne'lieti calici - also known as Brindisi or The Drinking Song - from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
Featuring Dana Ewing, Soprano and Gabriel Verges, Tenor
Performed live by The Colorado Choir in May 2022
Learn more at thecoloradochoir.org
Translated Lyrics:
ALFREDO
Let's drink, let’s drink from the happy glasses
where beauty flourishes;
and may this fleeting, fleeting moment
become inebriated with pleasure.
Let's drink from the sweet thrills
that love arouses,
for that eye goes straight to the almighty heart.
Let's drink, my love: the love among chalices
will have warmer kisses.
ALL
Ah, let's drink, my love: the love among chalices
will have warmer kisses.
VIOLETTA
With you, with you I'll be able to share
my cheerful times;
everything is crazy, crazy in this world
that is not pleasure.
Let's enjoy ourselves, for fleeting and fast
are the joys of love:
it’s a flower that blossoms and dies
and can no longer be enjoyed.
Let's enjoy ourselves! A fervent voice with a
flattering accent invites us.
ALL
Ah, let's enjoy the cup, the cup and the song,
the beautiful nights and the laughter;
in this, in this paradise, let the new day find us.
VIOLETTA: Life means celebration.
ALFREDO: When one hasn't known love.
VIOLETTA: Don't tell those who don’t know it.
ALFREDO: But this is my fate.
ALL
Ah yes, let's enjoy the cup and the song,
the beautiful night and the laughter;
let the new day find us in this paradise.
Ah, ah, let the new day find us,
Ah! ah! let the new day find us.
Yes, we shall let the new day find us!
26 авг 2024
