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Пиковая дама (Pikovaja dama) = The Queen of Spades = La Dame de Pique

Opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Je crains de lui parler la nuit
 (Sung text for setting by P. Tchaikovsky)
 Matches base text

Language: French (Français) 
Je crains de lui parler la nuit,
J'écoute trop tout ce qu'il dit,
Il me dit: je vous aime,
Et je sens, malgré moi,
Je sens mon coeur qui bat, qui bat,
Je ne sais pas pourquoi.

Puis il prend ma main,
Il la presse, avec tant de tendresse
Que je ne sais plus où j'en suis.
Je veux le fuir, mais je ne puis ...

Ah! la nuit, pourquoi lui parler la nuit,
J'écoute trop tout ce qu'il dit.
Il me dit je vous aime,
Et je sens, malgré moi,
Je sens mon coeur qui bat, qui bat,
Je ne sais pas pourquoi.

Text Authorship:

  • by Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719 - 1797) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), op. 68
Researcher for this page: Auditorium du Louvre
Total word count: 103
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