Forbidden Melody - 1891 - Tenor

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 11 Mar 2002

When the stars
in the midnight heaven glisten,
When trees are bare
and singing birds are silent,
Comes music to which I must not listen.
A voice enthrals me, wakes and calls me,
With that forbidden melody.
Oh, lovely words that never may be spoken,
Oh, foolish heart that never can forget you.
Bound by a spell that never can be broken,
I must not hear it, though it calls me yet.
Though all the world is holding us apart
No pow'r can hush
the singing in my secret heart.
Forbidden melody, your voice is haunting,
Although you tell of joy that cannot be,
Your lovely song for evermore enchanting,
Beats underneath my heart eternally.
Heav'n may not pity, earth cannot forgive us,
But still you sing of our forbidden love
Forbidden melody, there is no ending
You're in my heart, forever part of me.
Let come what may,
I'll meet my fate unbending,
Forbidden Love, forbidden melody.

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Musica Proibita 1891
Music by S. Gastaldon (1861-1939)
Italian Lyric by Flick Flock
English Lyric by Emery Bonett
copyright 1891 by Carisch S.A. Milan
Keith Prowse and Co. Ltd.
Copyright for this arrangement MCMLII
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Monday 11 March 2002 at 06.55
in association with Doug Grierson
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