Teledysk
Teledysk
Kredyty
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ensemble SoloVoices
Choir
Ensemble Phoenix Basel
Ensemble
Jurg Henneberger
Conductor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Michael Hersch
Composer
Stephanie Fleischmann
Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Andreas Werner
Producer
Stefan Haechler
Recording Engineer
Andrew Bohman
Editing Engineer
Tekst Utworu
CHORUS
Exsultate!
A divine light!
Diva Poppaea Augusta’s child,
Claudia Augusta, is born to us!
Nero’s inheritor!
We celebrate!
Exsultate!
We celebrate Fortuna’s gift to Rome! We dedicate this temple to Alma Venus even as the earth quakes, boding ill.
Claudia Augusta is born to us!
A divine light! Nero’s inheritor! Divine!
We celebrate Fortuna’s gift to Rome.
We avert our gaze.
Earth quakes.
We avert our gaze from a siege
of maleficent auguries as Nero races chariots
in honor of his baby girl—
Nero’s inheritor!
Born to us!
Diva Poppaea Augusta’s child, Claudia.
Rome is whole.
Swallows flood the sky.
Exsultate!
A divine light!
Poppaea Augusta’s child, Claudia Augusta, Nero’s inheritor!
We celebrate!
Claudia, born to us.
A divine light!
Exsultate!
We celebrate Fortuna’s gift to Rome...
We avert our gaze as Nero races chariots
in honor of his baby girl...
His baby, who is dead. Not four months old.
Written by: Michael Hersch, Stephanie Fleischmann


