Anna Moffo: Villa-Lobos, ’Bachianas Brasileiras’ No. 5

Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 -- March 9, 2006) was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty... Lyrics & English Translation In the early evening floats a cloud transparent and rosy Infinite the sky of beauty and dreaming Then the Moon appears as day comes to a closing Decorating sky as if a girl that’s preening Who so anxious tries to make of herself so purer Yearning deep in her soul she seems to be a-keening Crying to the sky and to the earth and all Nature