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📖 Juliet’s aria "Ah! Je veux vivre" from Roméo et Juliette, Act I.
Composer: Charles Gounod (1818-1893).
Libretto: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Premiere: 27 April 1867, Théâtre Lyrique, Paris.
/Synopsis
After the prologue-overture which, as in Shakespeare’s play, presents an outline of the drama, the curtain rises on a dazzling ball in the palace of the Capulets. They are celebrating Juliet’s birthday. Her father, Count Capulet, the master of the palace, has promised her to Count Paris. Everyone admires the young girl’s beauty, and her father bids the guests to enjoy themselves.Two masked members of the rival Montague clan-Romeo and Mercutio-have slipped incognito into the ball. Romeo has dark forebodings, but his friend jokes teasingly that Mab the Queen of dreams must have paid him a visit during the night. Suddenly Romeo sees Juliet at a distance and is immediately smitten with love for her. Juliet confesses to her nurse, Gertrude, that she would like to enjoy her youth before getting married (Arietta “Je veux vivre”).
/Lyrics
Je veux vivre
Dans ce rêve qui m'enivre
Ce jour encore,
Douce flamme
Je te garde dans mon âme
Comme un trésor!
Je veux vivre, etc.
Cette ivresse de jeunesse
Ne dure, hêlas! qu'un jour!
Puis vient l'heure
Où l'on pleure.
Loin de l'hiver morose
Laisse moi, laisse moi sommeiller
Et respirer la rose,
Avant de l'effeuiller.
Ah! - Ah! - Ah!
Douce flamme!
Reste dans mon âme
Comme un doux trésor
Longtemps encore.
Ah! - Comme un trésor
Longtemps encore
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