Ouf pazienza non v'ha che basti!
Opera details:
Opera title: | La Forza del destino |
Composer: | Giuseppe Verdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | La Forza del destino Synopsis |
Libretto: | La Forza del destino Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Padre Guardiano / Fra Melitone |
Voice(s): | Bass / Baritone |
Act: | 4.01b |
| Previous scene: | Fate la carita e un ora |
| Next scene: | Del mondo i disinganni |
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SCENA IIIIl Padre Guardiano e Fra' Melitone
MELITONE
Auf! Pazienza non v'ha che basti!
GUARDIANO
Troppa dal Signor non ne aveste.
Facendo carità un dover s'adempie
da render fiero un angiol …
MELITONE
Che al mio posto
in tre dì finirebbe
col minestrar de' schiaffi.
GUARDIANO
Tacete; umil sia Meliton,
né soffra se veda preferirsi Raffaele.
MELITONE
Io? No … amico gli son, ma ha certi gesti …
Parla da sé … ha cert'occhi.
GUARDIANO
Son le preci, il digiuno.
MELITONE
Ier nell'orto lavorava cotanto stralunato, che
scherzando dissi: Padre, un mulatto parmi …
Guardommi bieco, strinse le pugna, e …
GUARDIANO
Ebbene?
MELITONE
Quando cadde
sul campanil la folgore, ed usciva
fra la tempesta, gli gridai: mi sembra
Indian selvaggio … un urlo
cacciò che mi gelava.
GUARDIANO
Che v'ha a ridir?
MELITONE
Nulla, ma il guardo e penso,
narraste, che il demonio
qui stette un tempo in abito da frate …
Gli fosse il padre Raffael parente?
GUARDIANO
Giudizi temerari … il ver narrai … ma n'ebbe il
Superior rivelazione allora … Io, no.
MELITONE
Ciò è vero! Ma strano è molto il padre! La ragione?
English Libretto or Translation:
Scena and DuetMELITONE
mopping the sweat from his brow with a white handkerchief tucked up a sleeve
Ouf! One couldn't have enough patience for this.
THE SUPERIOR
The Lord
didn't give you too much of it.
To give charity is to fulfil a duty
that would make any angel proud …
MELITONE
taking snuff
Who, after three days
in my job, would end
by ladling out blows …
THE SUPERIOR
Hush! Melitone must be humble and not
irritated to see Raphael preferred to him.
MELITONE
Me? No. I'm his friend, but he has certain ways …
he talks to himself … he has a certain look …
THE SUPERIOR
It's the prayers
and the fasting.
MELITONE
Yesterday in the kitchen garden he was working
so furiously that in jest I said,
"Father, you're working
like a black". He glared at me,
and clenched his fists, and …
THE SUPERIOR
Well?
MELITONE
When lightning
struck the belfry, and he went out
into the storm, I called after him,
"You're like a wild Indian!" He let out
a howl that froze my blood.
THE SUPERIOR
What's worth repeating in that?
MELITONE
Nothing, but I look at him and think;
you told us that the devil
once stayed here in monk's clothing.
Could Father Raphael be a relative of his?
THE SUPERIOR
Rash judgments; I spoke the truth,
but it was revealed to the Father Superior
then … not to me.
MELITONE
That's true,
but the father's very odd. Why is it?
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