"Sommertime" Rigina Valieva from "Porgy and Bess"サマータイム

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Rigina Valieva is an opera singer. She was born in Western Siberia, Angarsk, Russia. Since 1998 till 2008 she past all the steps of the Classic Russian Opera School including musical college and the High Musical School of Kazan Conservatory. サマータイムとは、ジョージ・ガーシュウィンの作曲したオペラ『ポーギーとベス』(1935年)の第1幕で黒人の漁師ジェイクの妻クララが歌う子守唄。作詞はデュポーズ・­ヘイワードが担当。
オペラの第1幕冒頭で、生まれたばかりの赤ん坊にクララが歌いかけるブルース調の歌である。
前半の「夏になれば豊かになれる、魚は跳ねて、綿の木は伸びる。父さんは金持ち、母さんはきれい。だから坊や、泣くのはおよし...」では、歌詞とは裏腹に1920年代の­アメリカの黒人たちの過酷な生活が反映されているが、後半の歌詞では、「ある朝、お前は立ち上がって歌う、そして羽を広げて飛んでいく...」という子供の成長を祈る内容­になっている。
その後、ジェイクが嵐に遭遇して行方不明となったときと、ジェイクの死を知ったクララが嵐で死んだ直後にも歌われるが、歌詞の一部が変えられ、悲壮な内容となっていく。
"Summertime" is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward. The song soon became a popular jazz standard.
Gershwin is said to have based this song on a Ukrainian lullaby, Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon (A Dream Passes By The Windows), which he heard in a New York City performance by Oleksander Koshetz's Ukrainian National Chorus.
Gershwin began composing the song in December 1933, attempting to create his own spiritual in the style of the African American folk music of the period. It is sung multiple times throughout Porgy and Bess, first by Clara in Act I as a lullaby and soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in Act II in a reprise by Clara, and in Act III by Bess, singing to Clara's baby.

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