The Text
Translation
Although written originally in German ("Ratibor! Und der Fluss Mississippi und der Stadt Honolulu und der See Titicaca..."), it was later translated into English and received wide aclaim.
The full part text in English is reproduced below.
Sopranos' text
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Yes, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Yokohama, Yokohama.
- [pause]
- Rimini Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi
- Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi,
- Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico Mexico Mexico.
- Nagasaki, Yo-ko-hama, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Honolulu
- Mississippi, Titicaca
- Titicaca Titicaca Titicaca Titicaca Titicaca Titicaca Titicaca Titicaca
- Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Titicaca, Titicaca, Yo-ko-hama, Naga-saki
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Canada Malaga Malaga Canada Canada Malaga Malaga
- Canada Canada Malaga Malaga Canada Canada Malaga Malaga
- Malaga Malaga Malaga Malaga Malaga Malaga, Trinidad!
- And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- Mississippi Honolulu Titicaca Titicaca
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Trrrrrrrrinidad!
Altos' text
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Yes, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Yokohama.
- Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Nagasaki, Nagasaki
- Canada Canada Canada Canada Malaga Malaga Malaga Malaga
- Canada Malaga Canada Malaga Canada Malaga Canada Malaga
- Tibet, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Yo-ko-hama
- Tibet, Yokohama, Honolulu, Mississippi, Titicaca
- Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Yo-ko-hama, Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the :lake Titicaca,
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico,
- Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Canada Malaga Malaga Canada Canada Malaga Malaga
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- and the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca
- Mississippi Honolulu Titicaca Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad!
Tenors' text
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Yes, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Yokohama.
- Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet
- [pause]
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Yokohama, Honolulu, Mississippi, Titicaca
- Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Nagasaki, Yo-ko-hama, Tibet, Tibet
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Nagasaki, Nagasaki
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Canada Canada Canada Canada Malaga Malaga Malaga Malaga
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca, :Titicaca.
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Canada Malaga Malaga Canada Canada Malaga Malaga
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- and the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca
- Mississippi Honolulu Titicaca Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi :Mississippi Mississippi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi, Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad! Trinidad!
Bass' text
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Yes, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Tibet, Na-gasaki, Naga-saki.
- [pause]
- Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Honolulu, Mississippi
- Titicaca, Titicaca, Titicaca, Titicaca, Titicaca, Titicaca
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- Titicaca, Titicaca, Nagasaki, Naga-saki!
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca.
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- the Popocateptl is not in Canada, rather in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!
- Canada Canada Malaga Malaga
- Trinidad! And the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca,
- and the big Mississippi and the town Honolulu and the lake Titicaca
- Mississippi Honolulu Titicaca Mississippi Mississippi
- Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi -sippi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi, Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi, Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi
- Canada Malaga Rimini Brindisi, Trinidad!