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from Act IV of the French opera Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Libretto: Guillard François

Role: Iphigénie, Priestess of Diana
Voice Part: soprano
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Synopsis: The king of Tauride has ordered Iphigénie to sacrifice the Greek strangers. She feels somehow drawn to one of them (Orestes, her unidentified brother) and cannot bring herself to kill him. She asks Diana to give her the strength to do the deed and is about to do so, when Orestes reveals his Identity and brother and sister are reunited.
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Translation into English by Miriam Ellis (added 2011-06-19)
Je t'implore et je tremble, Iphigénie's aria from Iphigénie en Tauride

Non, cet affreux devoir, je ne puis le remplir   	No, I cannot fulfill this frightful duty.
En faveur de ce Grec, un Dieu parlait sans doute, 	A god seemed to speak in favor of this Greek.
Au sacrifice affreux que mon âme redoute,         	Oh, fearsome sacrifice which my heart dreads,
non, je ne saurais consentir.                       	no, I cannot consent to it.

Je t'implore et je tremble, 				I implore you and I tremble, 
ô déesse implacable.					oh, implacable goddess.
Dans le fond de mon coeur, 		          	In the depths of my heart,
mets la férocité.					instill a savage will.
Étouffe de l'humanité la voix				Stifle the voice of humanity,
plaintive et lamentable.				sorrowful and filled with woe. 
Helas! Et quelle est donc la rigueur                	Alas!  And then what will be the horror 
de mon sort?						of my fate?
D'un sanglant ministere, victime involontaire, 		Unwilling victim of a blood-soaked power,
j'obéis et mon coeur est en proie au remords.  		I obey; and my heart is doomed to remorse.

Translation by Miriam Ellis
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