CARMEN Song Lyrics HABANERA Opera BIZET Video Maria CALLAS
Carmen – Aria Habanera
Opera by Georges Bizet
Maria Callas sings
Aria Lyrics
Translated in English
Aria Habanera – Carmen
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
( in english: Love is a rebellious bird )
Opera Carmen
by Georges Bizet
(1875)
French operas
Song lyrics translated into English
Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée (1845). The “Carmen” opera by Georges Bizet was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its first audiences.
Habanera is the popular name for “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (“Love Is a Rebellious Bird”), an aria from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opéra comique Carmen. It is the entrance aria of the title character, a mezzo-soprano role, in scene 5 of the first act. The score of the aria was adapted from the habanera “El Arreglito ou la Promesse de mariage”, by the Spanish musician Sebastián Iradier, first published in 1863.
Here you can read the Opera Lyrics translated in English: Habanera (L’amour est un oiseau rebelle) (eng: Love is a rebellious bird) by opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet.
At this link you will read the Operas Lyrics of the aria “Habanera (L’amour est un oiseau rebelle)” in the original French language.
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Operas Lyrics
Habanera
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Opera Carmen
by Georges Bizet
first act
French opera
translated into English
Love is a rebellious bird
that no one can tame,
and if you call for it, it’ll be quite in vain
for it’s in its nature to say no.
Nothing helps, neither a threat nor a prayer
one talks well, the other rests silent
and it’s the other one that i prefere
doesn’t say a thing, but pleases me.
Love! Love! Love! Love!
Love is a gypsy’s child,
it has never, never known what law is,
if you do not love me, i love you
if i love you, then beware!
if you do not love me,
if you do not love me, i love you!
but if i love you,
if i love you, then beware!
The bird you thought you had caught by surprise
beats its wings and flies away…
love lies afar, you can wait for it
and when you don’t expect it anymore, there it is!
All around you twirls faster, faster
it comes and goes, and then comes back.
you think you’ve caught it, it eludes you,
you think you’ve escaped it, it captures you.
Love! Love! Love! Love!
Love is a gypsy’s child,
it has never, never known what law is,
if you do not love me, i love you
if i love you, then beware!
if you do not love me,
if you do not love me, i love you!
but if i love you,
if i love you, then beware!
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Aria: Habanera – L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Opera: Carmen by Georges Bizet (1875)
In english: Love is a rebellious bird
Video Version Maria Callas sings
French operas
translated into English
Habanera – Carmen original French Version > here
All Operas Lyrics > here
Maria Callas All Lyrics > here
Maria Callas Video
aria: Habanera
Opera Carmen by G. Bizet
Maria Callas
Maria Callas (Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalos, New York, December 2, 1923 – Paris, September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano, naturalized Italian and later Greek. Maria Callas was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina (“the Divine one”).
