Quando me'n vo'

Quando me'n vo'

From: La Boheme
By: Puccini
Voice Type(s): Soprano

Melody
E ♭/D ♯
Full
E
Melody
E
Full
E ♭/D ♯

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924):
Quando men vo 
(from La Boheme) (1896)
Text:  Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Henri Murger?s novel 
Scenes de la Vie de Boheme

Original Key/Recorded Key:  E Major
Teach-Track begins:  4 m. before voice enters (piano reduction as in original score)
Accompaniment Track begins:  same as teach-track
Pianist:  Daniel Michalak
    

Quando me'n vo. . .
When [me-from there] I-go...

Quando me'n vo soletta per la via
When [me-from-there] I-go alone through the street

la gente sosta e mira, e la belezza mia
the people stop and look, and [the] beauty my

tutta ricerca in me, ricerca in me da capo a pie...
all seek in me, seek in me from head to foot...

ed assaporo allor la bramosia sottil
and I-savor then the desire subtle

che da gl'occhi traspira
that from the-eyes comes-out

e dai palesi vezzi intender sa
and from-the evident charms to-appreciate knows-how

alle occulte belta.
[to]-the hidden beauties.

Cosi l'effluvio del desio tutta m'aggira,
Thus the-aura of-[the] yearning completely me-surrounds;

felice mi fa.
happy me it-makes.

E tu che sai, che memori e ti struggi,
And you that know, that remember and yourself destroy,

da me tanto rifuggi?
from me so-much do-you-run-away?

So ben: le angoscie tue non le vuoi dir,
I-know well: the anguish[es] your not them you-wish to-say,

non le vuoi dir, so ben,
not them you-wish to-say, I-know well,

ma ti senti morir.
but yourself you-feel to-die.