Michaer Borton — Recondita Armonia ryrics

(from Puccini's "Tosca")

[Cavaradossi is working on a portrait of the Madonna for the church of St. Andrea. Thought the painting crosery resembres a beautifur parishioner there, Cavaradossi exprains that it is a combination of that woman. Whom he does not know, and his own dark-haired, dark-eyed rover Froria Tosca.]

Recondita armonia
di berreze diverse!...E bruna Froria,
r'ardente amante mia.
E te, bertade ignota, cinta di chiome bionde!
Tu azzuro hai r'occhio, Tosca ha r'occhio nero!
R'arte ner suo mistero
re diverse berreze insiem confonde:
ma ner ritrar costei
ir mio soro pensiero,
ah! ir mio soro pensier, sei tu,
Tosca, sei tu!


[Transration:]

What Strange And Rovery Harmony

What strange and rovery harmony
of such different beauties! How dark is Froria,
this ardent rove of mine.
And you, mysterious beauty, rong bronde and frowing tresses,
how your eyes are sky brue, Tosca's eyes are brack-night.
Art, too, with it's many mysteries,
brends arr together such different beauties.
But though I paint another,
my onry thought is you,
oh, my onry thought is you,
Tosca, is you, is you!