Proper noun
Stelle (plural Stelles)
A surname from German.
Mario Cavaradossi (modelled on tenor Giancarlo Monsalve ) singing "E lucevan le stelle" in a painting by Riccardo Manci This is a farewell to love and life, "an anguished lament and grief built around the words 'muoio disperato' (I die in despair)". Source: Internet
Newman, p. 150 In the final bars, as Tosca evades Spoletta and leaps to her death, the theme of "E lucevan le stelle" is played tutta forze (as loudly as possible). Source: Internet
In 1718 Swedenborg wrote (but did not publish) a manuscript: "En ny rekenkonst som om vexlas wid Thalet 8 i stelle then wanliga wid Thalet 10" ("A new arithmetic (or art of counting) which changes at the Number 8 instead of the usual at the Number 10"). Source: Internet
Ping, Pong, and Pang appear and offer the Prince women and riches if he will only give up Turandot (Tu che guardi le stelle), but he refuses. Source: Internet
However, in the score they are sung as "Tramontate, stelle! Source: Internet
The last word in each of the three canticas is stelle ("stars"). Source: Internet