Opera title: | Il Trovatore |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Il Trovatore Synopsis |
Libretto: | Il Trovatore Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Manrico |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 3.07 |
Previous scene: | Di qual tetra luce |
Next scene: | L'onda de suoni mistici |
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Lyrics & English Translation
MANRICO
Ah yes, my love, when I am
yours, and you are my wife,
my spirit will be more fearless,
my arm will be stronger.
And yet, if on the page
of my destiny it's written
that I must be among the victims,
pierced by the foe's steel,
as I draw my last breath,
my thoughts will come to you,
and death will seem to me
only preceding you to heaven.
And death will seem to me, etc.
LEONORA and MANRICO
The wave of heavenly sounds
descends, pure, into our hearts!
Come, the altar opens to us
the joys of unspoiled love!
Ah! the joys of unspoiled love, etc.
RUIZ
Manrico?
MANRICO
What is it?
RUIZ
The gypsy... come... in irons... look
MANRICO
Oh God!
RUIZ
Those barbarians' hands
have already lighted the pyre...
MANRICO
approaching the balcony
Heaven! My legs fail me,
my eyes are clouding over!
LEONORA
You're raging!
MANRICO
I should!
Learn then: I am ?
LEONORA
Who?
MANRICO
Her son!
LEONORA
Ah!
MANRICO
Ah, cowards! This wicked sight
almost takes away my breath!
Get our men together! Hurry
Ruiz! Go, go... And fly back!
The horrible blaze of that pyre
burns, enflames all of my being!
Monsters, put it out; or very quickly
I'll put it out with your blood!
Before I loved you, I was yet her son;
your suffering cannot restrain me...
Unhappy mother, I hasten to save you,
or at least hasten to die with you!
LEONORA
I cannot bear such deadly blows.
Oh, how much better to die!
MANRICO
The horrible blaze of that pyre, etc.
RUIZ and SOLDIERS
To Arms! To arms!
Here we are, ready to fight with you,
or die with you!
To arms, etc.
MANRICO
Unhappy mother, I hasten to save you,
or at least hasten to die with you! etc.
To arms! To arms! To arms!
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I send my kind and warm regards,
MANRICO
Amor... sublime amore,
In tale istante ti favelli al core.
Ah! sì, ben mio, coll'essere
Io tuo, tu mia consorte,
Avrò più l'alma intrepida,
Il braccio avrò più forte;
Ma pur se nella pagina
De' miei destini è scritto
Ch'io resti fra le vittime
Dal ferro ostil trafitto,
Fra quegli estremi aneliti
A te il pensier verrà
E solo in ciel precederti
La morte a me parrà!
MANRICO
Love ... sublime love,
In that instant you favelli to the core.
Ah! yes, mine, to be
I yours, you my spouse,
I will have the intrepid alma more,
The arm will have stronger;
But even if in the page
De 'my destinies is written
That I remain among the victims
From the pierced hostile iron,
Among those extreme longings
The thought will come to you
And only in heaven it precedes you
Death will seem to me!
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