Caruso sings Massanets Elégie accompanied by Mischa Elman. Original 78 record played on a Victrola.

Elégie from Massanets “Les Érinnyes” - tragedy in two acts, first performance 6 January 1873, Odéon, Paris.
More information on Les Érinnyes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_%C3%89rinnyes

Elégie
Lyrics by Louis Gallet

Ô doux printemps d'autrefois, vertes saisons, vous
avez fui pour toujours!
Je ne vois plus le ciel bleu; je n'entends plus les chants joyeux des oiseaux!
En emportant mon bonheur, Ô bien-aimé, tu t'en es allé!
Et c'est en vain que revient le printemps! Oui! Sans
retour, avec toi, le gai soleil, les jours riants sont partis!
Comme en mon coeur tout est sombre et glacé, tout est flétri pour toujours!

Elegy
English Translation

O sweet Spring of yesteryear, green seasons, you have fled forever!
I no longer see the blue sky, I no longer hear the joyous songs of the birds!
You have fled, my love, and with you has fled my happiness.
And it is in vain that the spring returns! For along with you, the cheerful sun, the laughing days have gone!
As my heart is dark and frozen, so all is withered for evermore!

Information on the French composer Jules Massanet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Massenet

Information about Enrico Caruso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso or on my website http://www.enricocaruso.dk

Mischa (Mikhail Saulovich) Elman (Russian: Михаил Саулович Эльман) was a Russian-born Jewish-American violinist, famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Elman

Видео Caruso sings Massanets Elégie accompanied by Mischa Elman. Original 78 record played on a Victrola. канала Tom Frøkjær