My 1st Video: L’Ultima Canzone

This is the performance for the final / recital, in my voice class. There were some glitches, like the words, and the video ratio.  But hey it’s my first video, and I only rehearsed it once with the pianist.  So let’s just say I got "insight" for improvement from this video.

L’Ultima Canzone LUltima Canzone by Francesco Paolo Tosti
Vocal: Eric Zen
Pianist: Judy Lee

Original Lyrics:

M’han detto che domani
Nina vi fate sposa,
Ed io vi canto ancor la serenata.
Là nei deserti piani
Là,ne la valle ombrosa,
Oh quante volte a voi l’ho ricantata!

Foglia di rosa
O fiore d’amaranto
Se ti fai sposa
Io ti sto sempre accanto.

Domani avrete intorno
Feste sorrisi e fiori
Nè penserete ai nostri vecchi amori.

Ma sempre notte e giorno
Piena di passione
Verrà gemendo a voi la mia canzone.

Foglia di menta
O fiore di granato,
Nina, rammenta
I baci che t’ho dato!

Ah! … Ah! …

English Translation:

They told me that tomorrow
Nina, you will be a bride.
yet still I sing my serenade to you!
Up on the barren plateau,
down in the shady valley,
Oh, how often I have sung it to you!

Rose-petal
O flower of amaranth,
though you marry,
I shall be always near.

Tomorrow you’ll be surrounded
by celebration, smiles and flowers, and will not spare a thought for our past love;

yet always, by day and by night,
with passionate moan
my song will sigh to you.

Mint-flower,
O flower of pomegranate,
Nina, remember
the kisses I gave you!

Ah! … Ah! …

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