Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - Un dì felice, eterea - Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, National Philharmonic Orchestra

Un di felice eterea

Mi balenaste innante

E da quel di tremante

Vissi d’ignoto amor

Di quell’amor ch’e palpito

Dell’universo intero

Misterioso altero

Croce e delicia al cor

Ah se cio e ver fuggetemi

Solo amistade io v’offro

Amar non so ne soffro'

Un cosi eroico amor

Io sono franca e ingenua

Altra cercar dovete

Non arduor troverete

Dimenticarmi allor

A happy ethereal

You flashed before me

And from that of trembling

I lived in an unknown love

Of that love that is throbbing

Of the whole universe

Mysterious haughty

Cross and delicia to the heart

Ah if that is true, flee from me

Only amistade I offer you

Amar I do not know I suffer '

Such a heroic love

I am frank and naive

You have to look for another

You will not find hard

Forget me then