THE BOHEMIAN GIRL

You can read the whole libretto in this link:

You can read about the story (the plot of the opera) and see the musical numbers in this link:

http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_b/bohemian_girl.htm

There is an article in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bohemian_Girl
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And an essay on the opera itself:

http://cather.unl.edu/mt.wtr02.07.html
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Jessye Norman cantando "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls"



Rosalía Chalía, soprano cubana (1853-1948) interpretando "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls" en 1901

"Chalía Herrera, born Rosalía Gertrudis de la Concepción Díaz de Herrera y de Fonseca (Havana, 17 November 1864–16 November 1948), was a Cuban soprano. She had the distinction of being the first Cuban musical artist to be recorded. She recorded, outside Cuba, numbers from the zarzuela Cadíz in 1898 on unnumbered Bettini cylinders.[1] Much of her career was spent in Cuba, but she also sang in Mexico City, New York, Milan, Caracas, Madrid and Barcelona.

Chalía studied singing with Angelo Massanet, then she went to New York to perfect her skills at the School of Opera and Oratorio of Emilio Agramonte. Later on she studied violin with Laureano Fuentes Matons in Santiago de Cuba. In 1895 she appeared in the Weber Hall in New York, performing to raise money for the Cuban War of Independence.[2][3]"

en www.wikipedia.org

Noticia sobre el obituario de la famosa soprano Joan Sutherland en El País:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Muere/Joan/Sutherland/Stupenda/elpepucul/20101011elpepucul_6/Tes

Existe una página dedicada a la música en las obras de James Joyce; en Finnegans Wake se hace referencia a la famosa aria "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls":
http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song03_lyrics.html
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Some interesting information about this aria:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Halls
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http://youtu.be/zqlh6VhR2WY

John McCormack interpreta el aria "Then you´ll remember me" en 1916

This is a pure example of Victorian music and sensibility. McCormack's rendering of the lovely old aria is pefect, and captures the earnest, albeit finger-wagging, sense of morality and propriety so characteristic of the age.
Michael W. Balfe's opera was first performed in London in 1842, and , musically speaking, is absolutely a product of its time, even though its narrative inspiration would seem to be an old Cervantes story, La Gitanilla, an "exemplary novel" of the kind made popular by the great Spanish author, and which charmed the urbanites of earlier centuries who took their pleasure in pastoral romances.

http://youtu.be/xyb3MKqfzSg

Fragmento de la película The Bohemian Girl (1936), en el que podemos escuchar el aria del tenor "Then you´ll remember me", interpretado por Felix Knight.

From 1936, but the song itself is nearly 159 years old, and composed by Michael William Balfe, from the opera of the same name. Wonderful Felix Knight sings, Antonio Moreno is the duplicitous "Devilshoof," and amazing, "ever popular Mae Busch," plays her part to the hilt as his lover! Gotta love her "spit curls!" Though starring Laurel and Hardy, they're only in this clip by a benevolent accident. As Oliver said, "We'll spread the glad tidings to the woild!" Anyone know the name of the beauty serenaded by Felix? She's really lovely!



Rebecca Hains and Steve Macdonald sing a duet sequence from Balfe's The Bohemian Girl. The pianist is William Gatens.

LYRICS
Thaddeus
(taking her hand and pointing to the mark)
The wound upon thine arm,
Whose mark thro' life 'twill be,
In saving thee from greater harm
Was there transfix'd by me.

Arline
By thee?

Thaddeus
Ere on thy gentle head
Thy sixth sun had its radiance shed,
A wild deer, who had lain at bay,
Pursued by hunters cross'd thy way.

Arline
Well?

Thaddeus
By slaying him I rescued thee.

Arline
Yes!

Thaddeus
And in his death-throe's agony,
They tender form, by his antler gor'd,
This humble arm to thy home restor'd.

Arline
Strange feeligns move this breast,
It never knew before,
And bid me here implore
That you reveal, that you reveal the rest.

Thaddeus
The secret of her birth
To me is only known,
The secret of a life whose worth
I prize beyond mine own, beyond mine own.

Arline
The secret of my birth
To him is only known,
The secret of a life whose worth
Perchance he will disown, disown.

Arline
The secret of my birth
To him is only known,
The secret of a life whose worth
Perchance he will disown, he will disown;
The secret of my birth
To him is only known,
The secret of a life whose worth
Perchance he will disown.

Thaddeus
The secret of her birth
To me is only known,
The secret of a life whose worth
I prize beyond mine own, beyond mine own;
The secret of her birth
To me is only known,
The secret of a life whose worth
I prize beyond mine own.

Arline
Speak, tell me, ease my tortur'd heart,
Speak, and that secret, evil or good, evil or good, impart.

Thaddeus
I will tell thee, I will tell thee all,
tho' I lose thee, I lose thee forever.

Arline
Speak, tell me, ease my tortur'd heart.

Thaddeus
I will tell the all, tho' I lose,
tho' I lose thee forever.

Arline (with great feeling)
What is the spell hath yet effac'd
The first fond lines that love hath trac'd,
And after years have but imprest
More dep in love's confiding breast?


Thaddeus
And yet few spells have e'er effac'd
The first fond lines that love hath trac'd,
And after years have but imprest
More deep in love's confiding breast!

Arline
Speak, ease my tortur'd breast.

Thaddeus
I'll tell thee all, though I lose thee forever.

Arline
Speak, speak, speak!

Thaddeus
I will tell thee all.

Arline and Thaddeus together
Ah! What is the spell hath yet effac'd
The first fond lines that love hath trac'd,
And after years have but imprest
More deep in love's confiding breast?

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