Le Manoir de Rosemonde - Kiri Te Kanawa

"Le Manoir de Rosemonde"
Royal Opera House, 1978.
Richard Amner - Accompanist
~~~
De sa dent soudaine et vorace,
Comme un chien l'amour m'a mordu...
En suivant mon sang répandu,
Va, tu pourras suivre ma trace...

Prends un cheval de bonne race,
Pars, et suis mon chemin ardu,
Fondrière ou sentier perdu,
Si la course ne te harasse!

En passant par où j'ai passé,
Tu verras que seul et blessé
J'ai parcouru ce triste monde.

Et qu'ainsi je m'en fus mourir
Bien loin, bien loin, sans découvrir
Le bleu manoir de Rosamonde.
~~~
With its sudden and voracious tooth,
like a dog, love bit me.
By following my scattered blood,
go, you will be able to follow my tracks.

Take a horse of good breed,
set off, and follow an arduous path,
bog or lost path,
unless the chase exhausts you.

When passing where I passed
you will see that, alone and wounded,
I have wandered this sad world over
and I went to die like this

far, very far, without finding
the blue manor of Rosemonde...
©translated by Christopher Goldsack

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[rexeterna]

oh come on... this is for a man.

[Amethyst888]

What made you say this song is written for a man? Do you know it's history? Nothing in the lyrics suggest this can only be sung by a man, to my opinion.

Marilyn Horne, Renee Fleming have sung or recorded this very same song, just a FYI..

[gastonleroux1911]

What year was this made?

[princetonroaring20]

@rexeterna I also think it's appalling one would ever say "oh come on" to kiri te kanawa......... ever.

[robinorene]

hey, if we like it and we want to sing it and we don't have male organs, I think that's absolutely ok. Why can't we sing this exciting stuff too? No reason.