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Katia Ledoux & Anna Tilbrook perform Viardot's "Lamento" live in concert at London's Inner Temple Parliament Chamber, presented in partnership with Temple Music Foundation as a part of Opera Rara's 2023/24 Salon Series.

Text and Translation:
Ma belle amie est morte :
Je pleurerai toujours ;
Dans la tombe elle emporte
Mon âme et mes amours.
Dans le ciel, sans m’attendre,
Elle s’en retourna ;
L’ange qui l’emmena
Ne voulut pas me prendre.
Que mon sort est amer !
Ah ! sans amour, s’en aller sur la mer !

Sur moi la mer immense
S’étend comme un linceul ;
Je chante ma romance
Que le ciel entend seul.
Ah ! comme elle était belle,
Et comme je l’aimais !
Je n’aimerai jamais
Une femme autant qu’elle.
Que mon sort est amer !
Ah ! sans amour, s’en aller sur la mer !

My dearest love is dead:
I shall weep for evermore;
To the tomb she takes with her
My soul and all my love.
Without waiting for me
She has returned to Heaven;
The angel who took her away
Did not wish to take me.
How bitter is my fate!
Alas! to set sail loveless across the sea!

The immense night above me
Is spread like a shroud;
I sing my song
Which heaven alone can hear.
Ah! how beautiful she was,
And how I loved her!
I shall never love a woman
As I loved her.
How bitter is my fate!
Alas! to set sail loveless across the sea!

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