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Listening to Eilana's incredible voice will be a welcome highlight in your life. Please take this opportunity
to listen to her DVDs and CDs including recordings of Mascagnis Zanetto, the letter scebe from Eugen Onegin, Songs by Gustav Mahler and Italian Arias.
Below, you will find images of the CD booklet (front/back) and CD face from her debut CD.
Click on the images to view a larger version of each.
Click on the title(s) below to listen.
 
"Wenn dein Mutterlein"
from "Kindertotenlieder", Performed by Eilana Lappalainen, Piano: Robert Miller
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Lyrics from "Wenn dein Mutterlein"
When your mother /
steps into the doorway /
and I turn my head /
to see her, /
my gaze does not alight /
first on her face, /
but on the place /
nearer to the threshhold; /
there, where /
your dear face would be /
when you would step in /
with bright joy, /
as you used to, my little daughter.
"In diesem Wetter"
from "Kindertotenlieder", Performed by Eilana Lappalainen, Piano: Robert Miller
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Lyrics from "In diesem Wetter"
... In this weather, in this roaring, cruel storm, /
they rest as they did in their mother's house: /
they are frightened by no storm, /
and are covered by the hand of God.
P. Mascagni: "Zanetto"
Excerpt
Eilana Lappalainen as Sylvia
Jennifer Larmore as Zanetto
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic
Peter Tiboris, Conductor
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"Sola perduta abbandonata"
Performed by Eilana Lappalainen in the role as "Manon" from Puccini's Manon Lescaut
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Lyrics from "Sola perduta abbandonata"
Lonely, forsaken and abandoned,
forsaken and abandoned! How sad! What cruel dread!
I am distracted with grief and terror!
And in the heart of this desert I�m dying,
what cruel dread, ah!
Lonely and abandoned, o wretched hapless woman!
Ah! don�t let me die, ah!
No, don�t me die!
All my hope then is over.
I sought this region as a peaceful haven,
I sought this region as a peaceful haven.
Ah! through my fatal beauty, torments afresh surround me
they would have severed me from him;
how all my past haunts me
with fearful pangs of anguish
and rises straight before my eyes
to rend me. Ah! new dangers come to threaten. Ah! all hope is over
The tomb can only
release me from my burden
No, don�t let me die, don�t let me die!
No! No! Don�t let me die, help me!
"Mi Chiamano Mimi"
Performed by Eilana Lappalainen in the role as "Mimi" from Puccini's La Boheme
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Lyrics from "Mi Chiamano Mimi"
Yes. They call me Mim�, but my real name�s Lucia. My story is brief. I embroider silk and satin at home or outside.
I�m tranquil and happy, and my pastime is making lilies and roses. I love all things that have gentle magic, that talk
of love, of spring, that talk of dreams and fancies, the things called poetry. Do you understand me? They call me
Mim� - I don�t know why. I live all by myself and I eat all alone. I don�t often go to church, But I like to pray. I stay all alone
in my tiny white room; I look at the roofs and the sky. But when spring comes the sun�s first rays are mine. April�s first kiss is mine, is mine! The sun�s first rays are mine. A rose blossoms in my vase, I breathe its perfume, petal by petal. So sweet is the flower�s perfume. But the flowers I make, alas, The flowers I make, alas, have no
scent. What else can I say? I am your neighbor disturbing you at this impossible hour.
"Ave Maria"
Performed by Eilana Lappalainen in the role as "Desdemona" from Verdi's Otello
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Lyrics from "Ave Maria"
Hail Mary, full of grace, elect
art thou among matrons and virgins;
may the fruit of thy womb, Jesus,
oh blessed one, be blessed.
Oh, pray for all who kneel before you
in adoration,
pray for the sinner, for the innocent,
and for the oppressed and weak and for the mighty, wretched also, show thy pity.
Pray for all who bow their heads
beneath outrage and misfortune.
Pray, pray for us always
and in the hour of our death,
oh, pray for us, pray for us, pray.
Hail Mary! ...In the hour of death,
hail!�
Amen. |
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