Verdi

From our friend, Jean Z.

Hello friends, the musical selection for this week is Va, pensiero from Verdi’s opera Nabucco https://youtu.be/MBYmhYxEvUM?si=Z0ZvOMEYdHuOEsYq

Go thought on wings of gold,

go rest on the slopes, on the hills

where the warm, soft breezes of our native land

spread their fragrant aroma.

Greet the banks of the Jordan,

The fallen towers of Zion…

Oh my homeland so beautiful and lost!

Oh remembrance so dear and fatal!

Golden harp of the prophetic bards,

Why do you hang silent from the willow?

Re-kindle memories in our breast.

Speak to us of times past!

Mindful of Jerusalem’s fates

Either give forth a sound of crude lamentation,

Or let the Lord inspire you to a harmony

Which instills in us the virtue to suffer.

Text of Va, pensiero

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Image: Divine Grace and the Human Works by Ludwig Seitz