This edition was prepared by John K. Patterson — free to download, print, rehearse and perform.
L'Invitation au Voyage
Staff Notation • Secular, Art songs
Preview
0
0
Subscribed as
Want Sunday picks sent to another address too?
Free weekly email
Your choir should not be left out in what's trending
Sunday mass selections, psalms, and trending songs in your area — straight to your inbox.
L'Invitation au Voyage by Henri Duparc — Lyrics
Mon enfant, ma soeur,
Songe à la douceur
D’aller làbas vivre ensemble,
Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble.
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux,
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.
Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
[Des meubles luisants,
Polis par les ans,
Décoreraient notre chambre,
Les plus rares fleures
Mêlant leurs odeurs
Aux vagues senteurs de l'ambre
Les riches plafonds,
Les miroirs profonds,
Read full lyrics
About L'Invitation au Voyage
Henri Duparc's L'Invitation au Voyage, for solo soprano, sets Baudelaire's evocative poem of the same name. The text conjures an exotic, idealized land of beauty and sensuous pleasure, a place for lovers to live, love, and die together. The soprano voice is called upon to express the yearning for this distant paradise, a world of 'order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure.' It is a deeply personal and intimate vision, a dreamlike escape from reality into a realm of exquisite sensation. The French lyrics speak of a gentle, alluring summons to an imagined destination, a perfect haven for shared existence.
