Part of my "Flip Series". This aria is from The Marriage of Figaro and sung in English. 
STORY: The second play of Beaumarchais’ trilogy, The Marriage of Figaro picks up three years after The Barber of Seville ends. Rosina is now the Countess Almaviva and Figaro now the count’s personal valet, who is engaged to Susanna, the Countess’ maid.  Most of the action involves preventing the Count from exercising the medieval practice of a nobleman spending the wedding night with a servant. Adding to the hilarity is Cherubino, the Countess’ lovesick page and a famous “pants role”. He has written a song to the Countess, and sings it with Susanna accompanying him on guitar.  Beaumarchais’ plays had been banned in France, but the librettist omitted political references when he wrote it in Italian. Mozart delayed writing the music until he had received Emperor Joseph’s approval. The opera, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on May 1, 1786, and is now among the top ten most-performed operas. 

You Know The Answer from The Marriage of Figaro

Italian version of the aria from The Marriage of Figaro sung by Bri Cooper. The second play of Beaumarchais’ trilogy, The Marriage of Figaro picks up three years after The Barber of Seville ends. Rosina is now the Countess Almaviva and Figaro now the count’s personal valet, who is engaged to Susanna, the Countess’ maid.  Most of the action involves preventing the Count from exercising the medieval practice of a nobleman spending the wedding night with a servant. Adding to the hilarity is Cherubino, the Countess’ lovesick page and a famous “pants role”. He has written a song to the Countess, and sings it with Susanna accompanying him on guitar.  Beaumarchais’ plays had been banned in France, but the librettist omitted political references when he wrote it in Italian. Mozart delayed writing the music until he had received Emperor Joseph’s approval. The opera, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on May 1, 1786, and is now among the top ten most-performed operas. 

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My rendition of The National Anthem of The United States 

The Star Spangled Banner

Summertime

Live performance of Allerseelen
English Translation:
Bring in the mignonettes' fragrant spires,
the last red asters on the table lay,
and let again us speak of love's desires,
like once in May.

Give me your hand in furtive, sweet advances -
if people see it, mind not what they say:
Give me just one of your delighting glances,
like once in May.

Today the graves are full of lights and flowers,
one day a year the dead shall hold their sway:
Spend on my heart again those lovely hours,
like once in May.

Allerseelen

Segni di Pace Fino!


Oh, he was a lord of high degree,
And she was a lass from the Low Countree,
But she loved his lordship so tenderly!
Oh, sorrow, sing sorrow!
Now she sleeps in the valley where the wild flowers nod,
And no one knows she loved him but herself and God.

One morn, when the sun was on the mead,
He passed by her door on a milk-white steed;
She smiled and she spoke, but he paid no heed.
Oh, sorrow, sing sorrow!
Now she sleeps in the valley where the wild flowers nod,
And no one knows she loved him but herself and God.

If you be a lass from the Low Countree,
Don't love of no lord of high degree;
They hain't got a heart for sympathy.
Oh sorrow, sing sorrow!
Now she sleeps in the valley where the wild flowers nod,
And no one knows she loved him but herself and God. 



01 The Lass from the Low Countree

International award winning classical singer. First classical singer featured on ABC Here and Now, Black Enterprise Magazine, Scholar Magazine and Itcher Magazine UK. Distinguished Alumni of the Year East Carolina University School of Music, Favorite Indie Artist of the Year (Callywood Awards). Carnegie Hall in Weil Recital Hall, debut in Voices of the New Millennium. Guest soloist for The People's Inaugural Luncheon Honoring First Lady Michelle Obama.  

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