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KATHRIN ZUKOWSKI, soprano ˇ
KAMMERMUSIKKÖLN
THE WAGNER POJECT
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RICHARD WAGNER
Maria Stuart’s Farewell WWV 61 (1840)
T: Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780-1857)
Farewell, charming country of France
That I
treasure so much!
Cradle of my happy childhood,
Goodbye! To leave you is to die!
You whom I adopted
as my motherland
And from whom I now am banished;
Hear the farewells of Marie,
France, and preserve her
memory.
The wind is blowing; we are leaving the
shores,
And God, hardly moved by my sobs,
Has not
deigned to churn the waters
To block my passage to the
other side!
When I encircled those ravishing
fleur-de-lys
In the eyes of the people I love,
My
superior rank is what they applauded,
More than the
charms of my youthful spring.
Sovereign grandeur
awaits me in vain
In the home of the dark Scotsman,
For I have never desired to be queen
Except for to
reign over French people.
O France, amidst the
alarms of battle,
The noble daughter of the Stuarts,
On this day that sees her tears,
Shall turn her
sights to you.
But O God! this vessel, too swift,
Is already sailing under other skies;
And night,
with its moist veil,
Is stealing your shores from my
sight!
Farewell, charming country of France
That
I treasure so much!
Cradle of my happy childhood,
Goodbye! To leave you is to die!
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