Nessun Dorma

A song I like a lot is the Nessun Dorma (That nobody sleeps) from Giacomo Puccini. This song is on fact an aria of the opera Turandot, which was never finish because of the dead of Puccini. This aria was one of the favorite songs of Luciano Pavarotti and he sings it very well.

I hear it my very first time as a movie soundtrack. The movie was “The mirror has two faces” (El espejo tiene dos caras), starring Barbara Streisand and Jeff Bridges.

This song is written in Italian and I don´t speak Italian, so I have a vague idea what the singer sings because the words in Italian are very similar to the words in Spanish, but I don´t understand it well.
But I don´t like it because of the lyrics, I like it because of the emotions which are transmit throw the interpretation from Pavarotti of the music. I always thing that the person who is singing the aria feels sadness so deeply, but he although has a great hope from the future that commoves me.

Lyrics of Nessun Dorma

Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o Principessa,
Nella tua fredda stanza
Guardi le stelle
Che tremano d'amore e di speranza.
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
Il nome mio nessun saprà!
Solo quando la luce splenderà,
(Puccini: Sulla tua bocca lo dirò)
Sulla tua bocca lo dirò fremente!...

(Puccini: Quando la luce splenderà!)
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
Che ti fa mia!...
Il nome suo nessun saprà...
E noi dovremo, ahimè, morir, morir!...
Dilegua, o notte!...

Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle!...
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