Va Pensiero - Muti speech with English translation and encore

("Encore!" "Long live Italy!") Yes, I agree "Long live Italy" I have fewer than 30 years left and then I will have lived my life... ...but I, as an Italian who travels the world, am very saddened by what is happening. So if I do at your request an encore of 'Va pensiero', I do it not only for patriotic reasons... ...but this evening, when the choir sang "Oh my country, so beautiful and lost"... I thought that if we kill the culture, on which is founded the history of Italy... then truly our country will be "beautiful and lost" Meanwhile since we are in a very Italian mood.. ...and very often Muti spoke to the deaf for many years... ...since we are in our own house, in the theater of the capital... the chorus sang very beautifully, the orchestra played very well... ...if you want to punish them, then we will do it all together... ...but in tempo! Fly, thought, on wings of gold, go settle upon the slopes and the hills where, soft and mild, the sweet airs of our native land smell fragrant! Greet the banks of the Jordan and Zion's toppled towers... Oh, my country so beautiful and lost! Oh, remembrance so dear and so fatal! Golden harp of the prophetic seers, why dost thou hang mute upon the willow? Rekindle our ***'s memories, and speak to us of times gone by! Mindful of the fate of Jerusalem, give forth a sound of crude lamentation... or may the Lord inspire you a harmony of voices which may instill virtue to suffering.