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“Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto (English)
| Contents: Cast; Act One; Act Two |
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Scene One A street near an inn. Night. Duet DON GIOVANNI Go on, clown, don't annoy me! LEPORELLO No, no, master, I won't stay! DON GIOVANNI Listen, my friend - LEPORELLO I want to go, I tell you! DON GIOVANNI But what have I done to you that you want to leave me? LEPORELLO O, nothing at all. You almost killed me. DON GIOVANNI Go on, you are mad! It was only a joke. LEPORELLO And I am not joking. I want to go. (Leporello starts to go.) |
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DON GIOVANNI Go on, clown, etc. LEPORELLO No, no, master, etc. Recitative DON GIOVANNI Leporello! LEPORELLO Sir? DON GIOVANNI (offering him money) Come here! Let's make up. Here. LEPORELLO What is it? DON GIOVANNI Four pistoles. LEPORELLO (taking the money) Oh, well, then, this time I yield, but don't make a habit of it. Don't think you can get around me as you do with your women, not even with money. DON GIOVANNI Let's talk no more about it. Have you the nerve to do what I tell you? |
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LEPORELLO As long as we leave the women alone. DON GIOVANNI Leave the women alone? You're mad! You know that they are more necessary to me than the bread I eat! Than the air I breathe! LEPORELLO Do you have the gall, then, to betray them all? DON GIOVANNI Love is much the same in any form. He who remains faithful to one is being cruel to the others; I, who have an overabundance of sentiment, love them all. Since women cannot think clearly, they call my natural, kindly feelings betrayal. LEPORELLO I have never come across kindness more abundantly dispensed! Now then, what is it you want me to do? DON GIOVANNI Listen! Have you seen Donna Elvira's little maid? LEPORELLO I? No. |
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DON GIOVANNI Then you have missed something, my dear Leporello. Now I want to try out my luck with her, and I thought, since it is almost evening, that I would whet her appetite all the more by presenting myself disguised in your clothes. LEPORELLO And why couldn't you present yourself in your own clothes? DON GIOVANNI A nobleman's clothes are not very popular among people of her class. (He removes his cloak.) Come on, hurry up! LEPORELLO Sir, for more than one reason - DON GIOVANNI Keep quiet! I can't stand being argued with! (They exchange cloaks and hats. Donna Elvira appears at a window of the inn.) Trio DONNA ELVIRA Keep still, unjust heart! Do not beat so within my breast! He is a villain, a betrayer, and it is wrong to feel pity. |
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LEPORELLO Quiet! I hear, sir, Donna Elvira's voice! DON GIOVANNI I want to seize my opportunity. You stand there! (He stands behind Leporello and speaks for him, making appropriate gestures with his servant's arms.) Elvira, my beloved! DONNA ELVIRA Is it the ingrate? DON GIOVANNI Yes, my own, it is I, and I beg for your mercy. DONNA ELVIRA Lord, what a strange feeling awakens in my breast! LEPORELLO Wait and see, this madwoman will still believe what he says! DON GIOVANNI Come down here, my lovely, you will see you are the one whom my soul adores. I am really penitent. DONNA ELVIRA No, I don't believe you, cruel one! etc. |
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DON GIOVANNI 0 believe me, or I'll kill myself! My darling, please come here! etc. LEPORELLO (to Don Giovanni) If you go on, I'll laugh! etc. DONNA ELVIRA What a quandary is this! 1 don't know what to do! Oh Lord, please protect my credulous heart, etc. DON GIOVANNI I hope she yields to me quickly! What a nice little coup this is! Nowhere have I found as fertile a talent as mine! etc. LEPORELLO Already those lying lips are again seducing this poor woman; oh gods, protect her from her own credulous heart! etc. (Donna Elvira disappears from the window.) Recitative DON GIOVANNI My friend, what do you think? LEPORELLO I think you have a soul of bronze! |
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DON GIOVANNI Go on, what a buffoon you are! Now listen closely: when she comes out, you run to embrace her, give her a caress or two, imitate my voice. Then skilfully try to lead her away with you. LEPORELLO But, sir - DON GIOVANNI No more arguments! LEPORELLO And if she recognises me? DON GIOVANNI She won't recognise you if you are careful. Quiet, she's coming! Careful! (Don Giovanni hides to one side. Donna Elvira enters.) DONNA ELVIRA Here I am. DON GIOVANNI (aside) Let's see what she does. LEPORELLO (aside) What a mess! |
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DONNA ELVIRA So then, can I believe that my tears have won over your heart? That, penitent, my beloved Don Giovanni returns to his duty and to my love? LEPORELLO Yes, my dear! DONNA ELVIRA Cruel one, if you knew how many tears and sighs you cost me! LEPORELLO I, my own? DONNA ELVIRA You. LEPORELLO Poor girl, how sorry I am! DONNA ELVIRA Will you ever run away from me again? LEPORELLO No, my angel. DONNA ELVIRA Will you be mine for ever? LEPORELLO For ever. |
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DONNA ELVIRA Beloved! LEPORELLO Beloved! (aside) The deception is proving pleasant. DONNA ELVIRA My treasure! LEPORELLO My Venus! DONNA ELVIRA I am all aflame for you. LEPORELLO I am burnt to ashes. DON GIOVANNI (aside) The rascal is warming up. DONNA ELVIRA And you won't betray me? LEPORELLO Certainly not. DONNA ELVIRA Swear it. LEPORELLO I swear it on this hand, which I kiss in ecstasy, and those lovely eyes. |
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(Don Giovanni springs out of hiding and pretends to be waylaying someone.) DON GIOVANNI Ha, ha, ha! Death to you! DONNA ELVIRA, LEPORELLO Ye gods! (They run off.) DON GIOVANNI Ha, ha, ha! Fate seems to be on my side! Now let's see. These are the windows. Let us serenade them. (He picks up a mandolin left behind by Leporello and begins to accompany himself.) Canzonetta Come to the window, my treasure, come to console my lament. If you deny me some relief, I want to die before your eyes! You whose mouth is sweeter than honey, you whose heart cradles sweet desires! Do not, my beloved, be cruel to me! At least let me see you, my loved one! Recitative DON GIOVANNI There's someone at the window! Perhaps she! Pst! Pst! (Masetto enters followed by a group of peasants.) |
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MASETTO Let us not become tired. My heart tells me we must find him. DON GIOVANNI (aside) Someone speaks! MASETTO Halt! I think someone moves over there. DON GIOVANNI (aside) Unless I'm mistaken, it's Masetto! MASETTO Who goes there? No answer. Now then, shoulder arms! Who goes there? DON GIOVANNI (aside) He's not alone. I must be careful. (aloud) Friends. (aside) I mustn't give myself away. (aloud) Is that you, Masetto? MASETTO Exactly right; and you? DON GIOVANNI Don't you know me? I'm the servant of Don Giovanni. |
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MASETTO Leporello, the servant of that unworthy nobleman! DON GIOVANNI Certainly! Of that scoundrel! MASETTO Of that man without honour. Ah, tell me, where we can find him? We are looking for him to kill him! DON GIOVANNI (aside) What nonsense! (aloud) Well said, Masetto! I will join you to put an end to that rascal of a master. But listen a moment to my plan. Aria Some of you go this way, the rest of you go that way! And quietly, softly look for him, he is not far from here! If a man and a girl you see strolling in the square, if under some window you hear someone making love, fire away, by all means fire, for it will be my master. On his head he wears a hat covered with white plumes, over his shoulders a great cloak and at his side a sword. |
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If a man, etc. Some of you go this way, etc. Hurry, go and find him, but, you, come with me, Masetto. We will do the rest, and soon you will learn what that is, etc. (The peasants go off.) Recitative DON GIOVANNI Quiet! Let me listen! Good! Now then, must we kill him? MASETTO Certainly. DON GIOVANNI Wouldn't it be sufficient to break his bones, smash his shoulders? MASETTO No, no, I want to kill him, I want to cut him into a hundred pieces. DON GIOVANNI Are your weapons good ones? MASETTO Indeed they are! I have this musket and then this pistol, too. (He hands the weapons to Don Giovanni for inspection.) |
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DON GIOVANNI And then? MASETTO Isn't that enough? DON GIOVANNI (beating Masetto) Oh, certainly it's enough. Now this one is for the pistol, this one for the musket! MASETTO Oh, oh, my head! DON GIOVANNI Keep quiet or I'll kill you! This one is for killing him, this one for wanting to cut him into pieces! Villain! Blackguard! Food for dogs! (Don Giovanni leaves.) MASETTO Oh, oh, my head! Oh, my shoulders! Oh, my chest! ZERLINA (entering with a lantern) I thought I heard Masetto's voice! MASETTO Oh Lord, Zerlina, my Zerlina, help me! ZERLINA What happened? |
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MASETTO The villain, the scoundrel broke my bones and shattered my nerves. ZERLINA Oh, poor me! Who? MASETTO Leporello, or some devil who looks like him! ZERLINA Cruel man, didn't I warn you that this insane jealousy of yours would bring some trouble? Where does it hurt? MASETTO Here. ZERLINA And then? MASETTO Here, and also here! ZERLINA Nothing else hurts? MASETTO This foot hurts a little, this arm, and this hand. |
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ZERLINA Come, come, no great harm is done if the rest of you is sound. Come home with me, and if you promise to be less jealous, I will take care of you, my dear husband. Aria You'll see, my darling; if you are good, what a fine cure I will give you! It is a natural one, not unpleasant, and the chemist can't make it. It's a sure balm which I have with me. I can give it to you, if you would like to try it. Do you know where I keep it? Feel it beating, touch me here! etc. (They go out together.) Scene Two A dark courtyard of Donna Anna's house Recitative LEPORELLO I see lights all around us, my love. Let us stay hidden here until they go away. DONNA ELVIRA What are you afraid of, my adored husband? |
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LEPORELLO Nothing, nothing. Merely precautions. I'll go and see if the lights are moving away from us. (aside) Oh, how to free myself of her? (aloud) Stay here, beloved! DONNA ELVIRA Ah, do not leave me! Sextet Alone, in this dark place I feel my heart beating loudly, and such a fear assails me that I feel like dying. LEPORELLO The more I search for this door, the harder it is to find it. Softly, softly, I have found it! Here's the moment to escape! (Donna Anna and Don Ottavio enter.) DON OTTAVIO Dry your eyes, my own, and ease your suffering! By now the shade of your father should have pity on your grief. |
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DONNA ANNA Leave me this small outlet to my grief. Only death, my treasure, can put an end to my tears. DONNA ELVIRA Ah, where is my betrothed? LEPORELLO If she finds me, I am lost! DONNA ELVIRA, LEPORELLO I see a door there. Softly. softly, I must leave! (As Leporello is about to leave, Zerlina and Masetto appear and confront him.) ZERLINA, MASETTO Halt, rascal! Where are you going? DONNA ANNA, DON OTTAVIO There is the wretch! How did he get there? DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA, DON OTTAVIO, MASETTO Ah, death to the ingrate who has betrayed me! DONNA ELVIRA He is my husband! Have mercy! Have mercy! DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA, DON OTTAVIO, MASETTO Is that Donna Elvira? I can hardly believe it! No! He must die! etc. |
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(Don Ottavio draws his sword on Leporello who removes his disguise and falls on his knees.) LEPORELLO Pardon, pardon me, good people! I am not he; she is mistaken! Let me live, I beg you! DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA, DONNA ELVIRA, DON OTTAVIO, MASETTO Lord, Leporello! What ruse is this? I am dismayed! What does it mean? LEPORELLO A thousand strange thoughts are whirling in my head. If I save myself from this storm, it will truly be a miracle, etc. DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA, DONNA ELVIRA, DON OTTAVIO, MASETTO A thousand strange thoughts are whirling in my head. What a day, my stars, this is! What an unfortunate occurrence! etc. (Donna Anna leaves.) Recitative ZERLINA So it was you who, a short time ago, beat up my Masetto! |
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DONNA ELVIRA So it was you who tricked me, rascal, passing yourself off as Don Giovanni! DON OTTAVIO So it was you who in this disguise came here to commit some felony? ZERLINA It's up to me to punish him. DONNA ELVIRA No, to me. DON OTTAVIO No, no, to me. MASETTO Let us all have a hand in it. Aria LEPORELLO Mercy, dear people! Have mercy on me! You are right to be angry, but the fault is not mine. My overbearing master led me astray. Donna Elvira, have pity! You know what happened. (to Zerlina) Of Masetto I know nothing, (indicating Donna Elvira) this lady will confirm it. |
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For the past hour or thereabouts, we have been together. (to Don Ottavio) To you, sir, I say nothing, I was afraid, an unlucky chance, a light approaching, darkness within. No way out, the door, the wall, then... well... I started that way then hid over here, you know the rest. But had I known I'd have fled this way! (Leporello approaches the door and runs out.) Recitative DONNA ELVIRA Halt, villain, halt! MASETTO The rascal has wings on his feet! ZERLINA With that trick he escaped us, the wretch. DON OTTAVIO My friends, after such doings we can no longer doubt that Don Giovanni is the villainous murderer of Donna Anna's father. Stay inside the house for a while, and shortly I promise you vengeance. This is the demand of pity, duty, and love! |
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Aria Meanwhile, my treasure go and console, and from her lovely eyes try to dry the tears. Tell her that her wrongs I am going to avenge, that I shall not return except with tidings of death. Meanwhile, etc. (All go off except Donna Elvira.) Recitative & Aria DONNA ELVIRA Into what excesses, oh Lord, into what horrible misdeeds the scoundrel has fallen! Ah, no, the wrath and the justice of Heaven cannot delay any longer. I already seem to see the fatal thunderbolt striking his head! I see the grave opening at his feet! Wretched Elvira! What contrasting emotions rend me apart. Why these sighs? Why this anguish? That ungrateful wretch betrayed me, made me miserable, O Lord. He betrayed and abandoned me, but I still would forgive him. That ungrateful wretch, etc. When I feel my dreadful anguish, my heart cries out for vengeance. But if I gaze upon his features, my heart still beats with excitement. That ungrateful wretch, etc. (She leaves.) |
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Scene Three A graveyard. Night. (This lonely spot is decorated with a number of statues, including one of the Commendatore.) Recitative DON GIOVANNI (entering over a wall) Ha, ha, ha. That's a good one. Now let her try to find me! What a lovely night! It's clearer than daytime, almost made for chasing the girls. Is it late? Oh, not yet two o'clock. I would like to hear how the affair ended between Leporello and Donna Elvira. I wonder if he was prudent! LEPORELLO (from behind the wall) He wants to be the ruin of me. DON GIOVANNI It is he; oh, Leporello! LEPORELLO Who wants me? DON GIOVANNI Don't you know your master? |
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LEPORELLO If only I didn't! DON GIOVANNI What, you wretch! LEPORELLO (entering) Ah, it's you? Pardon me. DON GIOVANNI What happened? LEPORELLO Because of you I was nearly killed. DON GIOVANNI Well, would you not have been honoured? LEPORELLO It's an honour I can do without. DON GIOVANNI Come, come! Now listen! What wonderful things I have to tell you. LEPORELLO But what are you doing here? (Leporello enters; they change clothes.) DON GIOVANNI Come over here and I'll tell you. A number of amusing incidents have befallen me since we separated, but I will relate them another time. Just now there is only one I will tell you. |
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LEPORELLO Feminine, for certain. DON GIOVANNI Can you doubt it? A damsel pretty, young, flirtatious, I met in the street; I drew near to her, took her hand. She tried to escape. I spoke a few words, and she mistook me for, but guess who? LEPORELLO I have no idea. DON GIOVANNI For Leporello. LEPORELLO For me? DON GIOVANNI For you. LEPORELLO How nice. DON GIOVANNI So then she took my hand. LEPORELLO Better still. DON GIOVANNI She caressed me, embraced me: "My dear Leporello! Leporello, my dear!" So I realised she was one of your conquests. |
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LEPORELLO Damn you! DON GIOVANNI Naturally I took advantage of her mistake. I don't know how she recognised me, but suddenly she began to scream. I heard people coming and I ran away. Then quickly I climbed over that wall. LEPORELLO And you tell me this with such indifference? DON GIOVANNI Why not? LEPORELLO But what if this girl had been my wife? DON GIOVANNI Better still! THE STATUE OF THE COMMENDATORE You will have your last laugh before the next dawn! DON GIOVANNI Who spoke? LEPORELLO Ah, it must be some spirit from another world who knows you well. |
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DON GIOVANNI Keep quiet, you fool. Who goes there? (He puts his hand on his sword.) THE STATUE Audacious libertine! Leave the dead in peace! LEPORELLO I told you so! DON GIOVANNI It must be someone outside having a joke on us! Hey, isn't this the Commendatore's statue? Read the inscription. LEPORELLO Excuse me, but I never learned to read by moonlight. DON GIOVANNI Read, I tell you! LEPORELLO "Upon the base one who sent me to my death I here await vengeance." Did you hear that? I'm afraid! DON GIOVANNI You old buffoon! Tell him that tonight I expect him to dinner! |
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LEPORELLO What madness! But do you think - oh Lord, look at the terrible glances he throws us! He seems alive! As if he heard us and wants to speak! DON GIOVANNI Go on, go over there! Or I'll kill you on the spot and bury you right here! LEPORELLO Softly, softly, sir. Now I obey. Duet Oh, most noble statue of the great Commendatore... Master, I'm afraid. I cannot go through with it! DON GIOVANNI Finish it, or in your breast I'll sink this blade! LEPORELLO (aside) What a mess! What an idea! DON GIOVANNI (aside) What fun! What a joke! LEPORELLO I'm frozen with fright! DON GIOVANNI I want to make him tremble! |
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LEPORELLO O most noble statue, although you're made of marble... Ah, master, look! He's gazing at me still! DON GIOVANNI Die then! LEPORELLO No, wait! Sir, my master, I said my master, not I, would like to dine with you! Ah, what a scene this is! Oh Heaven, he nodded his head! DON GIOVANNI Go on! You're a buffoon! LEPORELLO Look again, master! DON GIOVANNI What should I look at? LEPORELLO, then with DON GIOVANNI With his marble head, he nods like this, like this! DON GIOVANNI (to the statue) Speak, if you can. You'll come to dinner? |
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THE STATUE Yes! LEPORELLO I can barely move, my strength, oh Lord, has fled! For pity's sake, let's go, let's fly away from here! DON GIOVANNI The scene is truly strange, the old man will come to dinner. Let us go and prepare it, let us leave this place. (They leave.) Scene Four A room in Donna Anna's house Recitative DON OTTAVIO Calm yourself, my beloved. We will see the base one punished for his grave crimes; and we will be avenged. DONNA ANNA But my father, Lord! |
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DON OTTAVIO We must bow our heads to Heaven's will. Compose yourself, my dear! If you wish, I will compensate tomorrow for your bitter loss, with my heart, my hand, my tender love. DONNA ANNA Ye gods! What are you saying at such a sad time? DON OTTAVIO What now? Would you with new sorrows increase my own grief? Cruel one! Recitative & Aria DONNA ANNA Cruel? Ah no, my love, I am too unhappy at having to put off the joy which we have both desired for so long. But what would people say! Do not try to shake the resolution of my poor heart. Your love speaks for you! Do not tell me, my true love, that I am cruel to you. You know well how much I love you, you know to whom I am pledged. Calm your anguish, if you do not wish me to die of grief. Do not tell me, etc. Perhaps some day Heaven will have pity on me. (She leaves.) |
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Recitative DON OTTAVIO Ah, I shall follow her, and share her sorrows; with me at her side her sighs will be less painful. (He leaves.) Scene Five A room in Don Giovanni's house (The table has been set for dinner. Don Giovanni's musicians are awaiting the order to play.) Finale DON GIOVANNI The dinner is prepared. Play, my dear friends! Since I spend my money freely, I want to be amused. Leporello, serve me, quickly. LEPORELLO I am ready to serve you. DON GIOVANNI Since I spend my money freely, I want to be amused, etc, Play, my dear friends, etc. (The orchestra begins to play an aria from Martin s "Una cosa rara".) LEPORELLO Excellent! "Cosa rara!" |
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DON GIOVANNI What do you think of this fine concert? LEPORELLO It is worthy of you. DON GIOVANNI Ah, what a delicious dish! LEPORELLO (aside) Ah what a barbarous appetite! What gigantic mouthfuls! I think I'm going to faint! etc. DON GIOVANNI (aside) As he sees my huge mouthfuls, he thinks he's going to faint, etc. LEPORELLO Ah, what a barbarous appetite, etc. DON GIOVANNI As he sees my huge mouthfuls, etc. Service! LEPORELLO At once! (The orchestra begins to play a piece from Sarti's "Fra i due litiganti".) Hurray for "The litiganti". DON GIOVANNI Pour the wine! Excellent marzimino! |
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LEPORELLO (aside) This piece of pheasant I myself will swallow. DON GIOVANNI (aside) The rogue is eating! I'll pretend I do not notice. (The orchestra begins to play from Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro".) LEPORELLO I know this piece only too well. DON GIOVANNI Leporello! LEPORELLO (his mouth full) Master! DON GIOVANNI Speak clearly, you rascal! LEPORELLO A cold prevents me from speaking better. DON GIOVANNI While I eat whistle something. LEPORELLO I don't know how. DON GIOVANNI Why not? |
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LEPORELLO Excuse me, but your cook is so excellent that I too wanted to taste it. DON GIOVANNI So excellent is my cook, that he too wanted to taste it. DON GIOVANNI, LEPORELLO So excellent, etc. DONNA ELVIRA (entering excitedly) The last test of your love I want to make now. I no longer remember your lies. Pity I feel. DON GIOVANNI, LEPORELLO What is it? DONNA ELVIRA (kneeling) My sor rowful hear t does not beg for boons. DON GIOVANNI I am amazed! What do you ask? If you don't arise, I won't remain standing. DONNA ELVIRA Ah, do not laugh at my despair! LEPORELLO She almost makes me weep, etc. |
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DON GIOVANNI I laugh at you? Heavens! What for? What do you want, my dear? DONNA ELVIRA That you change your ways! DON GIOVANNI Good for you! DONNA ELVIRA Faithless heart! DON GIOVANNI Good for you! DONNA ELVIRA Faithless heart! DONNA ELVIRA, LEPORELLO Faithless heart! DON GIOVANNI Now let me eat, and if you wish to, eat with me. DONNA ELVIRA Stay here then, ingrate! Wallow in your crimes, a horrible example of iniquity! etc. LEPORELLO If her grief fails to move him, his heart is of stone, or he has none at all, etc. |
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DON GIOVANNI Hurray for women, hurray for wine! The substance and glory of humanity! etc. DONNA ELVIRA Ah! (Donna Elvira starts out of one door, screams, recoils and rushes through another door.) DON GIOVANNI, LEPORELLO Why did she scream? DON GIOVANNI Go and see what it was. (Leporello goes out and before re-entering also screams.) LEPORELLO Ah! DON GIOVANNI What a scream! Leporello, what is it? LEPORELLO Oh, sir, for pity's sake don't leave the room! The man of stone, the man in white, ah, master, I'm afraid, I'm going to faint. If you could see what he looks like, if you could hear how he moves! Ta ta ta ta! |
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DON GIOVANNI I understand none of this. LEPORELLO Ta ta ta ta! DON GIOVANNI You've gone out of your mind. (There is a loud knocking at the door.) LEPORELLO Ah, listen! DON GIOVANNI Someone knocks. Open the door! LEPORELLO I'm afraid! DON GIOVANNI Open it, I say! LEPORELLO Ah! DON GIOVANNI Open! LEPORELLO Ah! DON GIOVANNI Lunatic! To put an end to it I shall have to go myself. |
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LEPORELLO I have no wish to see that again, so quietly I'll hide. (The statue enters. Leporello hides under the table.) THE STATUE Don Giovanni, you invited me to dinner and I have come! DON GIOVANNI I never would have believed it, but I will do what I can. Leporello, see to it that another dinner is served at once! LEPORELLO Ah, master, we are lost. DON GIOVANNI Go, I said! THE STATUE Wait a moment! He who dines on Heavenly food has no need for the food of the mor tals! Other more serious considerations have caused me to come here! LEPORELLO I feel as if I have a fever, for I cannot control my limbs. DON GIOVANNI Speak then! What do you ask? What do you wish? |
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THE STATUE I will speak. Listen! My time is short! etc. DON GIOVANNI Speak then, for I am listening, etc. LEPORELLO For I cannot control my limbs, etc. THE STATUE You invited me to dinner, now you know your duty. Answer me: will you come to dine with me? LEPORELLO Oh my! Excuse him, but he doesn't have time. DON GIOVANNI No one will say of me that I have ever been afraid. THE STATUE Make up your mind! DON GIOVANNI I have done so already! THE STATUE You will come? LEPORELLO Tell him no! |
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DON GIOVANNI My heart beats firmly. I'm not afraid: I'll come! THE STATUE Give me your hand upon it! DON GIOVANNI Here it is! (He gives the statue his hand.) Oh me! THE STATUE What is wrong? DON GIOVANNI What is this deadly chill? THE STATUE Repent! Change your ways, for this is your last hour! DON GIOVANNI (trying to free himself) No, no, I will not repent. Let me be! THE STATUE Repent, scoundrel! DON GIOVANNI No, you old fool! THE STATUE Repent! etc. |
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DON GIOVANNI No! etc. THE STATUE Yes! DON GIOVANNI No! THE STATUE Yes! DON GIOVANNI No! LEPORELLO Yes! Yes! DON GIOVANNI No! No! THE STATUE Ah, your time is up! (The statue disappears. Flames appear on all sides and the earth begins to tremble under Don Giovanni's feet.) DON GIOVANNI What strange fear now assails my soul! Where do those flames of horror come from? |
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CHORUS OF DEMONS No horror is too dreadful for you! Come, there is worse in store! DON GIOVANNI Who lacerates my soul? Who torments my body? What torment, oh me, what agony! What a Hell! What a terror! LEPORELLO What a look of desperation! The gestures of the damned! What cries, what laments! How he makes me afraid! CHORUS No horror is too dreadful, etc. DON GIOVANNI Who lacerates, etc. LEPORELLO What a look, etc. DON GIOVANNI, then LEPORELLO Ah! (The flames engulf Don Giovanni. After his disappearance everything returns to normal and the other characters enter.) |
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Epilogue DONNA ELVIRA, DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA, DON OTTAVIO, MASETTO Where is the villain? Where is the ingrate? All my rage I want to vent on him! DONNA ANNA Only when I see him bound in chains will my anguish be soothed. LEPORELLO Abandon hope of ever finding him. Give up your search, he has gone far away. THE OTHERS What has happened? Tell us! Come now, hurr y up! LEPORELLO A giant came, but I can't go on - THE OTHERS Quickly, tell us, hurry up! |
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LEPORELLO In flames and smoke, listen to this, the man of stone - wait a moment - just over there gave the sign, and just over there the Devil came and dragged him down! THE OTHERS My stars, what did I hear! LEPORELLO I've told you the truth! DONNA ELVIRA Ah, it must have been the ghost I met out there. DONNA ANNA, ZERLINA, DON OTTAVIO, MASETTO Ah, it must have been the ghost she met out there, etc. DON OTTAVIO Now, my treasure, that we have been avenged by Heaven, grant me my reward, do not let me pine any more. DONNA ANNA My dearest, let me mourn for one year more. |
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DON OTTAVIO A lover must yield to the desires of one who adores him, etc. DONNA ANNA A lover must yield to the desires of one who adores him, etc. DONNA ELVIRA I shall retire to a convent to end my life there! ZERLINA We, Masetto, will go home to dine together! MASETTO We, Zerlina, will go home to dine together! LEPORELLO And I'll go to the tavern and find myself a better master. ZERLINA, MASETTO, LEPORELLO So the wretch can stay down there with Proserpine and Pluto. And we, good people, will now gaily sing to you the old, old refrain. ALL This is the end which befalls evildoers. And in this life scoundrels always receive their just deserts! etc. END |
| libretto by William Murray, 1961 |
| Contents: Cast; Act One; Act Two |