C'è qualcosa di....

divino...
in questa commedia.....

Per me si va nella città dolente;

Per me si va nell'eterno dolore;

Per me si va tra la perduta gente.....

Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate

Through me is the way to the city of weeping;

Through me is the way to eternal torment;

Through me is the way among those that are lost....

Abandon hope, all ye that enter here.

"His original idea was to write three movements, Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, as Dante's Divina Commedia, but Wagner persuaded him that no human being could express the joys of Paradise ......the work ends whit a Magnificat for women's voices in place of a third movement."(Robert  Simpson)

Dante Symphony - 1. Inferno (1/3)

Franz Liszt 

"Purgatorio begins with an introductory passage, marked Tranuillo assai, wich seems to represent the scene where Dante, on leaving Hell behind, comes out into the light of the stars and sees the dawn rising like the "sapphire of the orient"....." (Robert  Simpson)

Liszt - Dante Symphony - 2. Purgatorio

"...the atmosphere begins to lighten, and soon the women's chorus enters whit a delicate woodwind and string accompaniment to sing the Magnificat...."(Robert  Simpson) 

Magnificat anima mea Dominum,

et exultavit spiritus meus

in Deo salutari meo.

Liszt: Dante Symphony (Magnificat)