Teresa Berganza – “La zingara” (“Fra l’erbe cosparse”), Arietta da camera (“coloratura song”) – Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848).<\/p>\n
Gala LIVE Recording – “Teresa Berganza: Recital Scheveningen 1975” – \u2117 1975 (?)
\nGala CD – \u2117 2000<\/p>\n
Teresa Berganza Mezzosoprano
\nFelix Lavilla Piano.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
La zingara
\n(Versi di Carlo Guaita)<\/p>\n
Fra l’erbe cosparse di rorido gelo,
\ncoverta del solo gran manto del cielo,
\nmia madre esultando la vita me di\u00e8.<\/p>\n
Fanciulla, sui greppi le capre emulai,
\nper ville e cittadi, cresciuta, danzai,
\nle dame lor palme distesero a me.<\/p>\n
La ra la. Ah! La zingara.<\/p>\n
Io loro predissi le cose note,
\nne feci dolenti, ne feci beate,
\nsegreti conobbi di sdegno, d’amor.<\/p>\n
La ra la, etc.<\/p>\n
Un giorno la mano mi porse un donzello;
\nmai visto non fummi garzone piu bello:
\noh! s’ei nella destra leggessimi il cor!<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
The gypsy girl (The gypsy maid)
\n(Lyrics by Carlo Guaita – English verses by Theodore Baker)<\/p>\n
Within grasses and iced hoarfrost,
\nCovered only with the huge mantle of the sky above,
\nmy mother, exulting, brought me to life.<\/p>\n
Still a little girl, I lived with goats and emulated their behavior;
\nWhen I grew up, I danced through towns and cities,
\nAnd many ladies reached to me their palms [asking me to read their future].<\/p>\n
I foretold to them following the prediction,
\nSometimes making them sorrowful, other times making them gay,
\nAnd I learned many secrets, some of disdain, others of love.<\/p>\n
But one day, even a youth reached me his palm:
\nI never had seen a boy as handsome as he:
\nOh! if only he could be the fortune-teller holding mine in his right hand,
\nand reading the loving secrets of my heart!<\/p>\n