“Nessun dorma” is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot.
Puccini began working on the opera in 1920. The next year, he started composing the music. Two years later, in 1924, Puccini had all but finished the opera’s final duet. Puccini disliked the text of the duet and postp...
[CALAF]
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o Principessa
Nella tua fredda stanza
Guardi le stelle
Che tremano d'amore, e di speranza!
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me;
Il nome mio nessun saprà!
No, No! Sulla tua bocca
Lo dirò quando la luce splenderà!
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà
Il silenzio che ti fa mia!
[PEOPLE OF PEKING]
Il nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir!
Dilegua, o notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò!
Vincerò! Vincerò!
(English translation)
[CALAF]
No one sleeps! No one sleeps!
Even you, oh princess
In your cold room
Look at the stars
That tremble with love and with hope
But my mystery is locked inside me
No one will know my name!
No, no! On your mouth
I will say it when the light shines
And my kiss will dissolve
The silence that makes you mine
[PEOPLE OF PEKING]
No one will know his name
And we, alas, will have to die, to die!
[CALAF]
Disappear, night!
Fade away, stars!
Fade away, stars!
At dawn, I will win!
I will win! I will win!
Nessun dorma was written by Giacomo Puccini.
Giacomo Puccini released Nessun dorma on Sun Apr 25 1926.
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