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Ora dorme il petalo cremisi

Sempre dalla colonna sonora di Mychael Danna per il film Vanity Fair (2004) di Mira Nair, una poesia di Lord Tennyson messa in musica.>

La poesia. Ora dorme il petalo cremisi, Alfred Tennyson, 1847

Ora dorme il petalo cremisi

Ora dorme il petalo cremisi, ora il bianco Ora ondeggia il cipresso nel sentiero della reggia Ora brilla la scia dorata nella fonte di porfido La lucciola si desta: destati con me. Ora svanisce il candido pavone come un fantasma E come un fantasma debolmente splende su di me. Ora la Terra offre le sue Danae alle stelle E a me offre, dischiuso, il tuo cuore intero. Ora passa la silenziosa meteora, lasciando una scia splendente, come i tuoi pensieri in me. Ora ripiega in sé, il giglio, la sua dolcezza E scivola in seno al lago: così in te raccogliti, mia cara, e scivola nel mio cuore e perditi in me.

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font. The firefly wakens; waken thou with me. Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake. So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.

La canzone. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Custer LaRue, 2004

[come-to-the-opera-with-me]

I would not marry a farmer, they're always selling grain

I'd rather marry a soldier boy that marches through the rain

O soldier boy, o soldier boy, o soldier boy for me

If ever I get married, a soldier's wife I'll be

- Soldier Boy for Me by Custer LaRue

[come-to-the-opera-with-me]

The crow that is so black, my love, shall surely turn to white

And if ever I prove false to the one I love, bright day shall turn to night

Bright day shall turn to night, my love, and the rocks shall melt with the sun

And the fire shall freeze and beat no more, and the raging sea will burn

- The True Lover’s Farewell by Custer Larue

[gargantua]

Dancing In The Grass (The Night Ramble/The Irish Jig)

[gargantua]

The Baltimore Consort - Cold and Raw

[gargantua]

The Baltimore Consort - In a Garden So Green (Anon. Forbes 1622)

[mars-aria]

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Since we've been talking quite a bit about Custer LaRue, I thought I'd share this surprisingly feminist 18th-century song. I should probably warn for the fact that the heroine encounters a number of unwanted sexual advances, but she always escapes them unscathed.

Also, it's full of imaginative vagina euphemisms. This was the first classical album ever to be released with a parental advisory sticker. (A lot of the songs on it are way raunchier than this.)