El desdichado (Boléro)

Qué me importa que florezca
El arbol de mi esperanza,
Si se marchitan las flores,
Y jamas el fruto cuaja. Ha!

Dicen que el amor es gloria,
Y yo digo que es infierno.
Pues siempre estan los amantes
En un continuo tormento! Ay!

El feliz y el desdichado,
Suspiran con diferencia:
Unos publican sus gustos,
Yotros publican suspenas. Ha!

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "El desdichado (Boléro)"

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

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by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) , "El desdichado", subtitle: "Chanson Espagnole a deux voix", 1871, published 1884. [duet for two sopranos]

Date added to the website: 2004-04-02.

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El desdichado

Peu m'importe que fleurisse
L'arbre des espoirs détruits,
Si Dieu veut qu'il se flétrisse,
Sans jamais porter des fruits.

On dit l'amour une ivresse!
Moi je plains ceux qu'il oppresse.
Voyez les pauvres amants
Dans leurs éternels tourments!

Nuit et jour leur coeur se noie
Dans les soupirs et les pleurs!
L'un soupire de sa joie
Et l'autre de ses douleurs.

by (Paul) Jules Barbier (1825-1901)

a text in Spanish by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "El desdichado (Boléro)"

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

by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) , "El desdichado", subtitle: "Chanson Espagnole a deux voix", 1871, published 1884. [duet for two sopranos]

ENG English (Siân Goldthorpe) (Jenny Mander)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.