La donna e mobile

Opera details:

Opera title:	Rigoletto
Composer:	Giuseppe Verdi
Language:	Italian
Synopsis:	Rigoletto Synopsis
Libretto:	Rigoletto Libretto
Translation(s):	English Deutsch

Aria details:

Type:	aria
Role(s):	Duke of Mantua
Voice(s):	Tenor
Act:	4.02

Previous scene:	E l'ami sempre
Next scene:	Un di se ben rammentomi

Verdi / Richard Tucker, 1940s: Rigoletto - Questa o quella; La donna e mobile - Columbia ML 4248

Singer: Richard Tucker

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Tucker's earliest recording from a 1949 Columbia Masterworks LP release. La donna e mobile / Questa o quella

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. It is widely considered to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from assassins hired by her father.

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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:

DUCA
La donna č mobile
Qual piuma al vento,
Muta d'accento
E di pensiero.
Sempre un amabile
Leggiadro viso,
In pianto o in riso
Č menzognero.

Č sempre misero
Chi a lei s'affida,
Chi le confida
Mal cauto il core!
Pur mai non sentesi
Felice appieno
Chi su quel seno
Non liba amore!

La donna č mobile, ecc.

Sparafucile rientra con una bottiglia di vino e due bicchieri che depone sulla tavola: quindi batte col pomo della sua lunga spada due colpi al soffitto. A quel segnale una ridente giovane, in costume di zingara, scende a salti la scala. Il Duca corre per abbracciarla, ma ella gli sfugge. Frattanto Sparafucile, uscito sulla via, dice a parte a Rigoletto:

SPARAFUCILE
Č lŕ il vostr'uomo …viver dee o morire?

RIGOLETTO
Piů tardi tornerň l'opra a compire.

Sparafucile s'allontana dietro la casa verso il fiume.

English Libretto or Translation:

DUKE
Women are as fickle
as feathers in the wind,
simple in speech,
and simple in mind.
Always the loveable,
sweet, laughing face,
but laughing or crying,
the face is false for sure.

If you rely on her
you will regret it,
and if you trust her
you are undone!
Yet none can call himself
fully contented
who has not tasted
love in her arms!

Women are as fickle, etc.

Sparafucile returns with a bottle of wine and two glasses, which he puts on the table; then he strikes the ceiling twice with the pommel of his sword. At this signal, a buxom young woman in gypsy costume comes jumping down the stairs. The Duke runs to kiss her, but she eludes him. Meanwhile, Sparafucile, having slipped out into the road, speaks softly to Rigoletto:

SPARAFUCILE
Your man's in there. Is he to live or die?

RIGOLETTO
I'll come back later to conclude our business.

Sparafucile moves off behind the house in the direction of the river.