Veronica Richer and Katelyn Jassoy

French

Pauline Viardot “Madrid”- Bibliographie of Music. Publisher is Paris: Heugel et Cie

Madrid, princess of Spain
Through you run
many black eyes, many blue ones
In the white village
trip on the promenades
many small feet every night

Madrid, when your bulls are jumping

Many white hands applaud
Many sashes wave
Through your beautiful starry nights
Many señoras with long veils
Descend the blue stairs

Madrid, Madrid, I laugh

At your ladies with their narrow waists
And pointed shoes
For I know that in all the world
Be she brown or blond of hair
None is worth the tip of her finger!

She is my Andaulsian Princess!

My beloved, my jealous one
My beautiful widow in her long lace veil!
She’s a real demon, she’s an angel!
She is yellow like the orange,
She is vivacious like a bird!

Now, if you want to know

How I made this conquest,
It was the allure of my horse,
A compliment on her mantilla
And some vanilla bonbons
One beautiful evening of carnival

Nadia Boulanger “Chanson”- Bibliographie of Music. Publisher is Paris: Société anme.

Des éditions Ricordi
She sold my heart for a song
Sell my heart at the square,
dealer,
in place of the song

Your songs were white

My song is the color of blood
She sold my heart,
dealer,
for the fun of it

And now my heart sings

at the squares, at the crossroads
You will make people cry,
dealer,
telling the story of my vast love

Meanwhile she will entertain the people

attending her wedding
singing the funny song
for which she sold my heart

Augusta Holmès “ En chemin” - Bibliographie of Music. Publisher is Paris: Henri Tellier

O wanderer, sadly
traveling through the dark night
Open your heart to the wonder
of dreams and moonlight.
Look! the elves around you
make the lights bloom.
Take this lily of light
this is your royal sceptre

No, I want nothing, nothing of this world

but the golden hair of my blonde.
No, I want nothing, nothing of this world
but the golden hair of my blonde.

O wanderer, hear the chords

mingling in the gust of wind.
The magic and tender voice of the horn
and the triumphant harp!
She, who appears to you below
her hair with icy gladioli adorned
is Morgana the fairy!
Open your arms to her!

No, I want nothing, nothing of this world

but the deep eyes of my blonde!
No, I want nothing, nothing of this world
but the deep eyes of my blonde!

Oh wanderer, an azure river

where white shapes are bathing
under the light of the dark pure heaven
sparkles under the branches.
On the shore where the pale waves
mumble and break
out of a pearls shell
drink peace and forget!

No, I want nothing, nothing of this world

but the dear kisses of my blonde
No, I want nothing, nothing of this world
but the dear kisses of my blonde!

Augusta Holmès “À Trianon”- Bibliographie of Music. Publisher is Paris: A. Durand & fils

Follow me, Marquise

among the perfumes and the breeze
to the temple of love
that smiles to us in the last rays of daylight
Follow me, Shepherdess,
among the moss and the fern

And the flowers, opening to your footsteps

say: „The mother of love
is more strict and Flora has less charms!“
Come under the hawthorn bushes
less pink than your open lips

Allow me to finally
rest my head close to your heart!
Your heart beats faster…
You avoid my eyes in vain
Your frail hand is too small
to hide your blushing!
Come on, Marquise!
Let‘s enjoy this exquisite hour
as love has conquered you
and it‘s the end of the day!

Agathe Backer Grøndahl Til mit Hjertes Dronning / To the queen of my heart-
Bibliographie of Music. Publisher is Wilhelm Hansens Musik- Forlag

Shall we roam, my love,

To the twilight grove,
When the moon is rising bright?
Oh, I’ll whisper there,
In the cool night air,
What I dare not in broad daylight!

I’ll tell thee a part

Of the thoughts that start
To being when thou art nigh;
And thy beauty, more bright
Than the stars’ soft light,
Shall seem as a weft from the sky.

When the pale moon beam

On tower and stream
Sheds a flood of silver sheen,
How I love to gaze
As the cold ray strays
O’er thy face, my heart’s throned queen!

Agathe Backer-Grøndahl Aftnen er stille / Evening is still- Bibliographie of Music.

Publisher is Wilhelm Hansens Musik- Forlag

Evening is still
the hours fall
silently through eternal space
Only my thoughts
walk restlessly
– will she not come,
not come tonight?
The winter dreams
the stars swim,
through its gauzy visions and smiles
summer drawing near
love and flowers
– dares she not meet,
not meet me any more?

The sea, with its forehead

iced on the beach
sighs in longing and travel-sick calm
Ships at anchor
sails filled with thoughts
– O, we must meet,
must meet, the two of us!

English songs
Little Women Set - Bibliography Of Music. Publisher is Chester, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc.
Couldn’t I Unbake the Bread
Duet: “She’s asked for you”
Aria: Have peace, Jo
Aria & Quartet: “Let me look at you”

Dark Sisters - Bibliographie of Music. Publisher is Gotham Chamber Opera

Act II Chapter 4
Ruth’s aria: I’m ready to come home