Zerbinetta's aria Elizabeth Parcells Part 1 of 2

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfdfjXgvZg
Translation: Great, high and mighty princess, you don't understand that such a noble and exalted highborn lady's tragic love can be compared on a scale with everybody else, the same as mortal common girls.

And yet, aren't we just women after all, and underneath that noble frame, there beats a trembling human heart?
To talk about our weaknesses, to confess them to
ourselves, confession's bittersweet? But isn't it a great relief!

Now you refuse to listen, proud and lovely, still as stone, an angel carved in marble, upon your tomb you stand. You tolerate no other kind of friendship than that of rocks and that of waving ocean.

Princess, you're not the only one, listen to me, we all, yes, we all have had times like this - who is the girl who hasn't suffered and still survived it? Abandoned! in a turmoil! left alone!

Ah, desert isles like this one are uncountable in leas of lonely people! I, yes I have found myself deserted more than once, yet I don't place the blame on men who've loved and left me.

Faithless, oh yes! so unfeeling, stop at nothing!
Just a fleeting day, a passionate night, a shift in the wind, a wandering eye, their hearts have been lost, but can women truly say we are less cruel, less fallible, less likely to have a sudden change of heart?
the man that I love, my heart is confused by restless emotions, suddenly a need to try a little freedom, needing again the exciting adventure of feeling the thrill of a new secret love. EP
Hi res version at http://www.elizabethparcells.com/animations.htm "Großmächtige Prinzessin" from Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss

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[7inga7]

Amazing!

[bruceagogox]

absolutely sensational.