Zanetto, chantant dans le lointain
Mignonne, voici l'Avril !
Le soleil revient d'exil ;
Tous le nids sont en querelles;
L'air est pur, le ciel léger,
Et partout on voit neiger
Des plumes de tourterelles.
... Sérénade du Passant
Set by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Sérénade du Passant", alternate title: "Sérénade de Zanetto", 1869, published 1869 [ voice and piano ] [Sung Text]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Translations available : ENG
Text Authorship:
- by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), no title, appears in Le Passant, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Fuis le miroir séduisant Où tu nattes à présent L'or de tes cheveux de fée; Laisse là rubans et noeuds, Car les buissons épineux T'auront bientôt décoiffé.
Text Authorship:
- by François Coppée (1842 - 1908)
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Note: Coppée wrote this stanza specifically for Massenet's piece.
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Prends, pour que nous nous trouvions,
Le chemin des papillons
Et des frêles demoiselles;
Viens, car tu sais qu'on t'attend
Sous le bois, près de l'étang
Où vont boire les gazelles !
Text Authorship:
- by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), no title, appears in Le Passant, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870
See other settings of this text.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Author(s): François Coppée (1842 - 1908)