Anna Netrebko: Lehar - Giuditta, 'Meine Lippen, sie Küssen so Heiss'

Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко, born 18 September 1971) is a Russian operatic soprano. She now holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and currently resides in Vienna. She has been nicknamed "La Bellissima" by fans. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar (Russia), in a family of Kuban Cossack background. While a student at the Saint Petersburg conservatoire, Netrebko worked as a janitor at Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. Later, she auditioned for the Mariinsky Theatre, where conductor Valery Gergiev recognized her from her prior work in the theater. He subsequently became her vocal mentor. Under Gergiev's guidance, Netrebko made her operatic stage debut at the Mariinsky at age 22, as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She went on to sing many prominent roles with the Kirov Opera, including Amina in La sonnambula, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor. In 1994, she sang the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with the Riga Independent Opera Avangarda Akadēmija under conductor David Milnes. In March 2007, Netrebko announced that she would be an ambassador for SOS Children's Village in Austria, and be a sponsor for the Tomilino village in Russia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Netrebko


Lyrics & English Translation

I don't understand myself,
why they keep talking of love,
if they come near me,
if they look into my eyes and kiss my hand.

I don't understand myself,
Why they talk of magic,
you fight in vain, if you see me
If you pass me by.

But if the red light is on
In the middle of the night
And everybody listens to my song,
Then it is plain to see:

My lips, they give so fiery a kiss,
My limbs, they are supple and white,
It is written for me in the stars:
Thou shalt kiss! Thou shalt love!

My feet, they glide and float,
My eyes, they lure and glow,
And I dance as if entranced, 'cause I know!
My lips give so fiery a kiss!

In my veins
runs a dancer's blood,
Because my beautiful mother
Was the Queen of dance in the gilded Alcazar1.

She was so very beautifull,
I often saw her in my dreams,
If she beat the tamburine, to her beguiling dance
All eyes were glowing admiringly!

She reawakened in me,
mine is the same lot.
I dance like her at midnight
And from deep within I feel:

My lips, they give so fiery a kiss!


A link to this wonderful artists personal Website: http://www.annanetrebko.com/


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