4. How am I alive - Diana Damrau

Day Turned into Night - Iain Bell
Extracts from Queen Victoria's writings concerning her love for Prince Albert

Diana Damrau - soprano
Helmut Deutsch - piano

Munich Opera Festival - July 2009

4) How am I alive?

Letter to her daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia Windsor Castle - December 18th, 1861

How am I alive after witnessing what I have done?
Oh! I who prayed daily that we might die together and I never survive him!
I who felt in those blessed arms clasped and held tight in the sacred hours of night,
When the world seemed to be only ourselves,
that nothing could part us,
I felt so very secure.

I always repeated: God will protect us!
Though trembling always for his safety when he was out of my sight.

I never dreamt of such a calamity,
What is to become of us all?
How I shall long to ask his advice! Oh it is too weary!
The day the night is too sad and weary.
The days never pass!

Pleasure, joy all is forever gone.
Oh! Think of Osborne...
All, all belong to a precious past
Which will for ever and ever be engraven on my dreary heart.
Oh! How I miss all, all!
The bitterness of this of this woe!
Oh! How I miss all, oh!

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[Lilith89ibz]

What a fantastic piece of music. Diana just adds perfection to it.