Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901):
Stride la vampa!
(from Il Trovatore) (1853)
Text: Salvatore Cammarano (completed posthumously by Emanuele Leone Bardare), after Antonio Garcia GutiƩrrez?s play El Trovator
Original Key/Recorded Key: E Minor
Teach-Track begins: m. 1
Accompaniment Track begins: m. 1
Pianist: Daniel Michalak
Stride la vampa! La folla indomita
Shrieks the blaze! The crowd, wild,
Corre a quel foco, lieta in sembianza!
Runs to that fire, happy in appearance!
Urli di gioia intorno echeggiano;
Cries of joy around echo;
Cinta di sgherri donna s'avanza;
Surrounded by cutthroat-guards woman herself-approaches;
Sinistra splende sui volti orribili
Sinister shines on-the faces horrible
La tetra fiamma che s'alza al ciel!
The dull flame that rises to-the sky!
Giunge la vittima nero vestita,
Comes the victim black dressed,
Discinta e scalza,
Ungirded and barefoot,
Grido feroce di morte levasi;
Shriek ferocious of death raises-itself;
L'eco il ripete di balza in balza.
The-echo it repeats from cliff to cliff.