12.02.2019
Don Giovanni, Act II, Commendatore scene(Second Act, Scene Nineteen)
THE STATUEDon Giovanni, you invited me to dinner
and I have come!
DON GIOVANNI
I never would have believed it,
but I will do what I can.
Leporello, see to it
that another dinner is served at once!
LEPORELLO
Ah, master, we are lost.
DON GIOVANNI
Go, I said!
THE STATUE
Wait a moment! He who dines on Heavenly food
has no need for the food of the mortals!
Other more serious considerations
have caused me to come here!
LEPORELLO
I feel as if I have a fever,
for I cannot control my limbs.
DON GIOVANNI
Speak then! What do you ask? What do you wish?
THE STATUE
I will speak. Listen! My time is short! etc.
DON GIOVANNI
Speak then, for I am listening, etc.
LEPORELLO
For I cannot control my limbs, etc.
THE STATUE
You invited me to dinner,
now you know your duty.
Answer me: will you come to dine with me?
LEPORELLO
Oh my! Excuse him, but he doesn’t have time.
DON GIOVANNI
No one will say of me
that I have ever been afraid.
THE STATUE
Make up your mind!
DON GIOVANNI
I have done so already!
THE STATUE
You will come?
LEPORELLO
Tell him no!
DON GIOVANNI
My heart beats firmly.
I’m not afraid: I’ll come!
THE STATUE
Give me your hand upon it!
DON GIOVANNI
Here it is!
(He gives the statue his hand.)
Oh me!
THE STATUE
What is wrong?
DON GIOVANNI
What is this deadly chill?
THE STATUE
Repent! Change your ways,
for this is your last hour!
DON GIOVANNI (trying to free himself)
No, no, I will not repent.
Let me be!
THE STATUE
Repent, scoundrel!
DON GIOVANNI
No, you old fool!
THE STATUE
Repent! etc.
DON GIOVANNI
No! etc.
THE STATUE
Yes!
DON GIOVANNI
No!
THE STATUE
Yes!
DON GIOVANNI
No!
LEPORELLO
Yes! Yes!
DON GIOVANNI
No! No!
THE STATUE
Ah, your time is up!
(The statue disappears. Flames appear on all
sides and the earth begins to tremble under Don
Giovanni’s feet.)
DON GIOVANNI
What strange fear
now assails my soul!
Where do those
flames of horror come from?
CHORUS OF DEMONS
No horror is too dreadful for you!
Come, there is worse in store!
DON GIOVANNI
Who lacerates my soul?
Who torments my body?
What torment, oh me, what agony!
What a Hell! What a terror!
LEPORELLO
What a look of desperation!
The gestures of the damned!
What cries, what laments!
How he makes me afraid!
CHORUS
No horror is too dreadful, etc.
DON GIOVANNI
Who lacerates, etc.
LEPORELLO
What a look, etc.
DON GIOVANNI, then LEPORELLO
Ah!
(The flames engulf Don Giovanni. After his
disappearance everything returns to normal and
the other characters enter.)
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