I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
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Popular aria
"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls", or "The Gipsy Girl's Dream", is a popular aria from The Bohemian Girl , an 1843 opera by Michael William Balfe, with lyrics by Alfred Bunn. It is sung in the opera by the character Arline, who is in love with Thaddeus, a Polish nobleman and political exile.[1]
In popular culture
[edit ]The song was popular in the 19th and 20th centuries, and has been recorded many times by musicians.[2] It has also been parodied.
- Lewis Carroll's parody of the lyrics was published in Lays of Mystery, Imagination and Humour in 1855:[3]
I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls,
And each damp thing that creeps and crawls
went wobble-wobble on the walls... - The opera is featured in two short stories from James Joyce's 1914 collection Dubliners : "Clay" and "Eveline".[4]
- The 1941 Glenn Miller song "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem" is an allusion to the song.
- The Irish singer Enya recorded an ambient, ethereal cover version for her third studio album, Shepherd Moons , released in 1994 as the fourth single for the album; this version was featured on the soundtrack of the 1993 Martin Scorsese film, The Age of Innocence .[5]
References
[edit ]- ^ Frank Weaver. "Music in the Works of James Joyce". James-joyce-music.com. Retrieved 2012年08月07日.
- ^ James Michael Welsh; Peter Lev (2007). The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation. Scarecrow Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780810859494.
- ^ Knight letter, Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1994, p. 21
- ^ "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls", Music in the Works of James Joyce, james-joyce-music.com
- ^ The Age of Innocence (1993) – Soundtracks
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