MUSIC: Kathleen Battle sings "Ach, ich fühl's" from Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'

EXQUISITE BEAUTY!

Parmina's (Kathleen Battle) heart is broken when her boyfriend, Tamino, refuses to speak to her, not knowing that he has taken a vow of silence in order to pass a test to win her love. When she approaches him and he apparently ignores her, she sings that she feels as if her life is over.

Ah, I feel it, it has disappeared

Forever gone love¹s  happiness!

Nevermore will come the hour of bliss

Back to my heart!

See, Tamino, these tears,

Flowing, beloved,  for you alone!

If you don't feel the longing of love

Then there will be peace in death!

~*~

Mozart

"Ach, ich fühl's" 

from

The Magic Flute

performed by

Kathleen Battle

James Levine

conducting

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra