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René Pape - Le veau d'or est toujours debout & Some Enchanted Evening 2012

Vom Semperopernball in Dresden

From the opera ball at the Semperoper, Dresden

1. Le veau d'or est toujours debout
From the opera 'Faust' Charles Gounod

Le veau d'or est toujours debout!

On encense sa puissance
On encense sa puissance
D'un bout du monde à l'autre bout!
Pour fêter l'infâme idole,
Rois et peuples confondus,
Au bruit sombre des écus
Dansent une ronde folle
Autour de son piédestal!
Autour de son piédestal!

Et Satan conduit le bal, conduit le bal
Et Satan conduit le bal, conduit le bal

Le veau d'or est vainqueur des Dieux!
Dans sa gloire dérisoire
Dans sa gloire dérisoire
Le monstre abject insulte aux cieux!
Il contemple, ô race étrange!
A ses pieds le genre humain
Se ruant, le fer en main,
Dans le sang et dans la fange
Où brille l'ardent métal!
Où brille l'ardent métal!

Et Satan conduit le bal, conduit le bal
Et Satan conduit le bal, conduit le bal

2. Some Enchanted Evening
From the musical 'South Pacific' by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II

Some enchanted evening
You may see a stranger,
you may see a stranger
Across a crowded room
And somehow you know,
You know even then
That somewhere you'll see her
Again and again.

Some enchanted evening
Someone may be laughin',
You may hear her laughin'
Across a crowded room
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
The sound of her laughin'
Will sing in your dreams.

Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons,
Wise men never try.

Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
Or all through your life
You may dream all alone.

Once you have found her,
Never let her go.
Once you have found her,
Never let her go!