Ehi di casa buona gente

English Libretto or Translation:

COUNT
Hey, good people …
Is no one at home! Hey …

BARTOLO
Who can that be? What an ugly face!
And drunk, too! Who is it?

COUNT
Curses,, is nobody home! Hey …

BARTOLO
What do you want, Signor Soldier?

COUNT
Oh, yes!
Very much obliged.

BARTOLO
(What on earth is he doing here?)

COUNT
You are … wait a minute
You are … Doctor Balordo?

BARTOLO
What Balordo? What Balordo?

COUNT
Ah, ah, Bertoldo.

BARTOLO
What Bertoldo? Oh, go to the devil!
Doctor Bartoio, Doctor Bartolo.

COUNT
Ah, bravissimo,
Doctor Barbaro, bravissimo,
Doctor Barbaro.

BARTOLO
You blockhead!

COUNT
Well and good,
the difference, after all, is trifling.

BARTOLO
shuffling across left in a fury
(I am already out of patience.
Prudence is necessary here.)

COUNT
searching for Rosina
(She does not appear!
How impatient Ifeel!
How long she delays! Where can she be?)
Then you are a doctor?

BARTOLO
Yes, sir, I am a doctor.

COUNT
Ah, very fine! Let me embrace
a colleague here.

BARTOLO
Keep off!

COUNT
Come. I also am
the doctor for hundreds …
I am the vet of the regiment.
My billet for lodgings,
look here it is.
(Oh, come, dearest object
of my happiness!)

BARTOLO
(With rage, with vexation,
in truth I shall burst.
If I don't watch out,
I'll do something rash.)

Rosina enters from her room

COUNT
Hasten, hasten, your adorer,
Full of love awaits you here.

BARTOLO
If I don't watch out,
I'll do something rash.

ROSINA
(A soldier, a guardian,
what am I to do now?)

The Count has seen Rosina and approaches her

COUNT
(It is Rosina! Now I am happy.)

ROSINA
(He looks at me … he is coming near.)

COUNT
(I am Lindoro!)

ROSINA
(Heavens! What do I hear!
Prudence, for mercy's sake )

BARTOLO
seeing Rosina
Signorina, what are you looking for?
Quickly, quickly, leave the room!

ROSINA
I'm going, I'm going, don't shout.

BARTOLO
Quickly, quickly, away from here.

COUNT
And, my girl, I am going too,

BARTOLO
Where, where, sir?

COUNT
To the barracks.

BARTOLO
To the barracks?

COUNT
Oh, this is great!

BARTOLO
To the barracks?
A good joke!

COUNT
Dearest …

ROSINA
Help me …

BARTOLO
Oh, damnation!

COUNT
Then I go …

The Count starts towards the inner room. Bartolo seizes him

BARTOLO
Oh no, sir,
you can have no lodging here.

COUNT
What? What?

BARTOLO
No sense arguing …
I am exempt from lodging troops.

COUNT
Exempt?

BARTOLO
going to his desk
Good sir, just a moment
and I shall show you.

COUNT
aside to Rosina
Since I may not be able to remain here,
take this …

he motions to her to take a note

ROSINA
(Be careful! He is watching us!)

BARTOLO
(Oh, I can no longer find it.)

ROSINA
(We must be careful!)

BARTOLO
(But, yes, yes, I must find it.)

ROSINA and COUNT
(A hundred emotions burn within me,
I can no longer control myself.)