Language: French
Performer: Roberto Alagna
Opera: Carmen
Composer: Georges Bizet
Libretto: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy
First Performed: 1875
Translation of the text:
The flower that you threw to me
Remained with me while I was in prison.
Withered and dried, the flower
Always maintained its sweet scent.
And for hours,
My eyes, with eyelids closed,
I became intoxicated by this smell
And in the night I saw you!
I began to curse you,
I detested you, to saying to myself:
Why is it necessary for fate
To put herself there in my path?
Then I accused myself of blasphemy
And I felt only within myself
I felt but one desire
A single desire, a single hope
To see you again, oh Carmen,
To see you again!
For you had only to appear
Only to throw your glance at me
In order to take a hold of all my being
Oh my Carmen!
And I was owned by you.
Carmen, I love you
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