Ah! per l'ultima volta

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot - Ah! per l'ultima volta!

Turandot, Katia Ricciarelli
Timur, Ruggero Raimondi
Calaf, Placido Domingo
Liù: Barbara Hendricks
Ping, Gottfried Hornik
Pang, Heinz Zednik
Pong, Francisco Araiza

Wiener Staatsoperchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

T: For the last time, please
L:Vanquish this dreadful spell
PPP:Life is so beautiful
T: have pity on me
L:Have pity on Liù
PPP:Life is so beautiful
T: Have pity on me...
L:My Lord, pity!
T: pity
L: Have pity on Liù
PPP:Don't throw your life away.
C: I am the one who is asking for pity
L:My Lord, have pity
T: I can't tear myself from you
PPP:Seize him, drag him away, stop this furious madman, take him away
C: I will listen to no one
L: Have pity on Liù
C: I can see her radiant face! I see her! She is calling me! She is there!
T: I refuse to tear myself from you! Pity! I fall weeping at your feet. Pity! you cannot want my death
PPP: Hurry, drag that madman off. Stop that raving lunatic. You're mad. Life is good.
L: Pity, my lord, have pity!
PPP: Come on, one last effort, let's drag him away!
C: Leave me, I have suffered too much! Glory awaits me over ther. No power on eart could hold me back. I follow my destiny. I am all of a fever, completely delirious! Every sense is a ferocious torment. Every fibre of my being cries out with one voice...
T: You are trampling on a poor heart that bleeds in vain for you. No one has ever guessed right, no one. The axe fell on them all. I throw myself at your feet, you cannot want my death.
PPP: The face you see is a delusion, the light you see is baleful. You are playing with destruction, you are staking your head. Death, the shadow of the executioner is over there. You are running headlong to destruction! Do not gamble with your life.
L: Have pity on us. If his sufferings do not move you, my lord, we shall be lost along with you! Oh, fly, my lord, let us fly!
People: We are already digging a grave for you who dare to challenge love. In darkness, alas, is written your cruel fate.
C: Turandot
Death, ah
C: turandot
Death! ah!
C: Turandot
Death, ah!
People:We are already digging a grave for you who dare to challenge love. In darkness, alas, is written your cruel fate.