Dorettas schöner Traum | Dorettas schöner Traum

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by Giuseppe Adami (1878 - 1946)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG GER PER

Chosen for Diff

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
Potè indovinar?
Il suo mister come mai
Come mai fini

Ahimè! un giorno uno studente
In bocca la baciò
E fu quel bacio
Rivelazione:
Fu la passione!
Folle amore!
Folle ebbrezza!
Chi la sottil carezza
D'un bacio così ardente
Mai ridir potrà?

Ah! mio sogno!
Ah! mia vita!

Che importa la ricchezza
Se alfine è rifiorita
La felicità!
O sogno d'or
Poter amar così!

Text Authorship:

by Giuseppe Adami (1878 - 1946) [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):

by Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924), "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta", first performed 1917, from opera La rondine, Act I, Scene 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Doretta's glorious dream", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Dorettas schöner Traum", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
PER Persian (Farsi) (Roxana Rabbani) , "رویای زیبای دورتّا", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-16
Line count: 21
Word count: 70

Dorettas schöner Traum

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)

Chosen for Diff

Dorettas schöner Traum -
wer konnte ihn erraten?
Wieso ist sein Geheimnis
enthüllt worden?

Ach! Eines Tages küsste 
ein Student ihren Mund,
und jener Kuss war
eine Offenbarung:
Er war  Leidenschaft!
Liebestaumel!
Sinnenrausch!
Die zärtliche Liebkosung
eines solch glühenden Kusses -
wer kann dies jemals wiedergeben?

Ach! Mein Traum!
Ach! Mein Dasein!

Was bedeutet aller Reichtum,
wenn am Ende 
glückselige Liebe blüht!
O goldener Traum,
so zu lieben!

Text Authorship:

Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2009 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giuseppe Adami (1878 - 1946)
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This text was added to the website: 2009-10-18
Line count: 21
Word count: 66