Herakles aria from The Olympic Flame by Panayoti Karousos

The Olympic Flame by Panayoti Karousos
Aria of Herakles
Aldeo Jean, tenor : Herakles
Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes Laval-Laurentides
diriger par André Gauthier
Montreal - Canada
Sung in Greek

Herakles: O my King Eurystheas, and the peoples of Hellas, listen. The fire of wisdom I light, the gift of Prometheus to us. But we must liberate him. Our benefactor must not suffer, I must go and free him from Caucasus, where Haephestus and Bia have bound him, on command of Dia. O my King Eurystheas, to Prometheus we owe both wisdom and art. To the birth of civilisation, we are entitled! O Greeks, we all want the sun to shine on the sky of our wisdom. A luminous, vast, sky, here! Prometheuss fire is burning! O flame of wisdom, the true and holy flame! You who enlighten all darkness, light! To thunderously strike with you we may, eternal light of wisdom. Holy flame of our gods! O Prmoetheus the flame of the future, we hold in our hands, the flame of the gods.

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