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Dido<br />

(Se relevant, appuyée sur son coude)<br />

Ah!<br />

(Elle retombe.)<br />

Anna<br />

(Sur le bûcher)<br />

Ma sœur!<br />

(Didon se relève.)<br />

Dido<br />

Ah!<br />

(Elle lève les yeux au ciel et retombe gémissant.)<br />

Anna<br />

C’est moi,<br />

C’est ta sœur qui t’appelle …<br />

Dido (se relevant à demi)<br />

Ah! Des destins ennemis …implacable fureur …<br />

Carthage périra!<br />

(Rising on her elbow)<br />

Ah!<br />

(She falls back.)<br />

(On the pyre)<br />

My sister!<br />

(Dido rises.)<br />

Ah!<br />

(She lifts her eyes to the sky, then falls back with a groan.)<br />

It is I,<br />

It is your sister who calls you.<br />

(Half-rising)<br />

Ah! The fates are against us … their hate unrelenting …<br />

Carthage will perish!<br />

No 52: Imprécation<br />

(On voit dans une gloire lointaine le Capitole.)<br />

Dido<br />

Rome … Rome … immortelle!<br />

(Elle retombe, et meurt. Anna tombe évanouie à côté d’elle. Le<br />

peuple de Carthage, s’avançant vers l’avant-scène et tournant le dos<br />

au bûcher, lance son imprécation, premier cri de guerre punique,<br />

contrastant par sa fureur avec la solennité de la Marche triomphale.)<br />

Chorus<br />

Haine éternelle à la race d’Énée!<br />

Qu’une guerre acharnée<br />

Précipite à jamais nos fils contre ses fils!<br />

Que par nos vaisseaux assaillis<br />

Leurs vaisseaux dans la mer profonde<br />

Périssent abîmés! Que sur la terre et l’onde<br />

Nos derniers descendants, contre eux toujours armés,<br />

De leur massacre, un jour, épouvantent le monde.<br />

(A distant radiance shows the Capitol.)<br />

Rome … Rome … eternal!<br />

(She falls back, and dies. Anna sinks swooning beside her. The people<br />

of Carthage, advancing to the front of the stage with their backs to the<br />

pyre, hurl out their imprecation, the first Punic war cry, contrasting in<br />

its anger with the solemnity of the triumphal march.)<br />

Undying hatred for the race of Aeneas!<br />

<strong>May</strong> our sons hurl themselves against theirs<br />

In relentless war for all time!<br />

<strong>May</strong> our ships attack theirs<br />

And send them shattered to the bottom<br />

Of the sea! By land and water<br />

<strong>May</strong> our last descendants, armed against them to the end,<br />

One day astonish the world with their destruction.<br />

20 The Trojans – Texts<br />

Text by Hector Berlioz, after Virgil’s Aeneid<br />

English translation © David Cairns

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