3 Donizetti songs, Elizabeth Parcells

http://www.elizabethparcells.com/animations.htm Amiamo, La Gondola, Sull'onda cheta e bruna by GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797-1848)
Amiamo-Let' love!
Our youth is so inviting,
So let us find delight.
The time for pleasure passes away forever.
Life can he solemn and dreary
If no one culls the flowers:
For love can he adorned only with roses.
If you are lovely, the more you owe
To love your offerings and your vows.
No other gift will do for love's devotion.
Let's love, for time is flying.
A day devoid of loving
Is just a day of woe, a day forgotten. EP

The Gondola
Quickly get into the gondola,
Quickly, my lovely Cloris.
Come, let us seek together
The cooling zephyrs breezes
To relieve the heat of day.
Come now, the waves already
Mirror the silver moonlight,
Just as the wind caresses
The peaceful water's surface,
You will he kissed like that.
Come now, loosen your jet black hair
The wind will set it waving.
And make my heart beat with it,
If two such things are likened,
Then let them heat the same.

You'll see the clearest sky above
Brilliant with stars and comets,
Two stars that shine most bright of all,
Sisters that God created
Which ornament your face.
Come then, beautiful Cloris,
And you will see me joyful,
My heart in tender ecstasy
To have you sit beside me,
With love to feed my soul.
Then I will take your snow white hand
Upon my heart with tenderness,
And be allowed to clasp it there,
Then you will feel how frequent is
The beating of my heart. EP

Barcarole
Upon the silent, dark water,
Just before the moonrise,
With swiftness, O gondolier,
Please set sail on your course
But take good care that lightly
Your prow caresses the sea.
That my dear one Leonora
Who sings so anxiously the while,
Hears but my heart beating with love,
Faithfull and true, rowing the oars. EP

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[wnwnrt]

Oh, I love her SO much! She is wonderful! What a shame that she is no longer with us! I discovered her here on youtube, but I would like to have some CD of her. Does anyone knows where can I buy them? She is wonderfull for Donizetti, and Mozart! My God, till I didn't heard Elizabeth doing Mozart's concert arias, my idol was Sylvia Geszty. Brava Elizabeth!

[linkie886]

semplicemente fantastica!Il tuo posto e sul polcoscenico!

[7inga7]

Such charming songs sung by this fabulous artist.