O patria mia – Aïda

Radamès is coming here!          

What does he want to tell me?  I’m trembling!

Ah! If you’re coming to bring me, o cruel man,

The final farewell,

The deep whirlpools of the Nile

Will give me a grave and maybe peace,          

and maybe peace and oblivion.

Oh my country, I will never see you again!

Nevermore! Nevermore will I see you!

O blue skies, o sweet native breezes

Where my morning shone peacefully,

O green hills, o fragrant shores,

Oh my country, I will never see you again!

Nevermore! Nevermore will I see you!

O cool valleys, o this blessed refuge

That once gave me a promise of love,

Now that the dream of love has disappeared,

O my country, I will never see you again.         

O my country, I will never see you again.

Leyla Gencer in Verdi's Aida.

Verona, 1963.