by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Rosemonde
Language: French (Français)
Qu'as-tu vu dans ton exil? Disait à Spencer sa femme, à Rome, à Vienne, à Pergame, à Calcutta? Rien! fit-il Veux-tu découvrir le monde? Ferme tes yeux, Rosemonde.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921 [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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Rosemonde", H. 148 no. 5 (1941), published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Rosemonde", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Rosemonde", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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