3. Otto Nicolai
Die lustigen Weiben von Windsor
Salomon Hermann Mosenthal

4. Act II: Duet and Quartet

6. My dear, why are you crying?

8. I’m so worried,

9. My father’s word and mother’s wish will keep us apart.

10. -And you?
- I have no will left.

11. You would abandon me like this?

12. No! You don’t love me.
How can I bear it?

14. My Fenton, don’t you know
what is in my heart?

15. Must I say again that I will
always be yours?

17. My mother pledges me one way,
while my father threatens another…

18. My heart only belongs to you.

19. Forever, Anna remains yours!
Forgive my heart’s fears,

20. No doubt enters my mind.
I can hardly bear how happy I am.

21. -My heart only belongs to you.
-Forever I am yours.

23. Yes, you are mine forever!

25. Are those tiresome suitors
still assailing you?

26. Unfortunately, yes.

27. That idiot squire Spärlich,
with his ”Oh sweet Anna”

28. To hell with him!
Who knows what he’s saying!

29. My father holds him in high esteem,
but he won’t get me.

30. -And that ludicrous Frenchman?
-All he wants is an heir.

31. Ma foi! I Will murder that traitor.

32. With these suitors,
I bet I’ll win the prize, no problem.

34. Just have patience! Take heart!
Until the time comes to act!

36. True love will not abandon us!

37. Everything is going perfectly.

39. Such pain! Such rage!

40. I can no longer control myself!

41. Sweet Anna,
you have abandoned me!

43. Sacre Dieu!

45. If I get my hands on that man,
I shall act without mercy.

50. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro
Lorenzo Da Ponte

51. Act I: Trio “Susanna, or via, sortite”

53. Well, this is new! You don’t usually lock yourself in your
room.

54. Yes, but I - I was trying on clothes with...

55. ...Susanna,
who just went into her room.

56. In any case, you don’t seem calm
Look at this letter.

57. (The letter Figaro wrote!)

58. What’s that noise?
Something’s fallen over in your closet.

59. I didn’t hear anything.

60. -You seem to be distracted.
-How so?

61. -There’s someone in there?
-Who would that be?

62. -I’m asking you! I’ve only just arrived.
- Ah yes, it’s Susanna.

63. You said she went into her room.

64. To her room or that room,
I didn’t see.

65. Susanna?
That’s why you’re so anxious?

66. -About my chambermaid?
-How should I know?
But you are anxious.

67. You should be more anxious
about the maid!

68. I’ll see for myself!

70. Susanna, come out of there!
I order you!

71. -Stop! Listen, she can’t come out.
-What’s going on? Where’s the page?

72. -What is stopping her?
-She is too modest.

73. She’s trying on her wedding dress.

74. (It’s clear, her lover is in there!)

75. (This is horrible!
Who knows what will happen?)

76. (I understand what's happened,
we'll see how things go.)

78. -Susanna, come out now!
-Stop! She can’t!!

79. Well, she can talk.
Susanna, are you in there?

80. No! I order you both to be silent.

81. Be reasonable, my wife.

82. A scandal, a confusion,
is looming over us!

83. Be reasonable, my husband.

85. A scandal, a confusion,
is looming over us!

89. Stephen Sondheim
Into The Woods
James Lapine

93. But it isn't my fault, I was given those beans! You
persuaded me to trade away my cow for beans!

94. Without those beans there'd have been no stalk to get
up to the giants in the first place!

95. Magic beans for a cow so old that you had to tell a lie to
sell It, which you told!

96. Were they worthless beans, were they oversold? Tell us
who persuaded you to steal that gold?

97. -See, it's your fault.
-No! -Yes it is! -It’s not!

98. Wait a minute-I only stole the gold to get my cow back
from you!

99. -So it's your fault! -Yes!
-No, it isn't! I'd have kept those beans, but our house
was cursed.

100. She made us get the cow to get the curse reversed!

101. It's your father's fault the curse got placed, and the
place got cursed in the first place!

102. -Then it’s his fault! -So.
-It was his fault... -No.

103. -Yes, it is, it's his. -I guess...
-Wait a minute, though I chopped down the beanstalk-

104. Right? That's clear. But without any beanstalk, then
what's queer

105. is how did the second giant get down here in the first
place? Second place..

106. -Yes!
-How?
-Who had the other bean?

107. -You pocketed the other bean.
-I didn’t!...Yes I did.

108. -So it's your-!
-No, it isn't, 'cause I gave it to my wife!

109. -So it's her-!
-No, it isn't! -Then whose is it?

110. She exchanged that bean to obtain your shoe, so the
one who knows what happened to that bean is you!

111. You mean that old bean-that your wife? Oh, dear- But I
never knew, and so I threw-well, don't look here!

112. -So it's your fault! -but…
-It isn’t mine at all!

113. -But what?
-Well, if you hadn't gone back up again-

114. -We were needy…
-You were greedy!
Did you need that hen?

115. -I got it for my Mother!
-So it's her fault then!

116. -What about the harp in the third place?
-She went and dared me to!

117. You dared me to! She said that I was scared to. She
dared me!

118. -So it's your fault! -Wait a minute!
-If you hadn't dared him to…

119. -…and left the harp alone, we wouldn't be in trouble in
the first place!
-if you hadn't thrown away the bean…

120. -If she hadn't raised them in
the first place-!
-It was your fault!

121. You're responsible!
You're the one to blame! It's your fault!

123. It's the last midnight.
It's the last wish.

124. It's the last midnight.
Soon it will be boom squish!

125. Told a little lie, stole a little gold,
broke a little vow, did you?

126. Had to get your prince,
had to get your cow

127. Have to get your wish,
doesn't matter how.
Anyway, it doesn't matter now.

128. It's the last midnight.
It's the boom splat!

129. Nothing but a vast midnight,
everybody smashed flat!

130. Nothing we can do, not exactly true.
We could always give her the boy…

131. No? Of course what really matters
is the blame,
someone you can blame.

132. Fine, if that's the thing you enjoy, placing the blame, if
that's the aim,
give me the blame.

133. Just give me the boy.
-No!

134. No?

135. You're so nice.
You're not good, you're not bad,
You're just nice.

136. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right.

137. I'm the witch, you're the world.

138. I'm a hitch, I'm what no one believes, I'm the witch.

139. You're all liars and thieves,
like his father.

140. Like his son will be, too.
Why bother?
You’ll just do what you do.

141. It's the last midnight.
So, goodbye all.

142. Coming at you fast, midnight.
Soon you'll see the sky fall.

143. Here, you want a bean?
Have another bean.
Beans were made for making you rich!

144. Plant them and they soar.
Here, you want some more?

145. Listen to the roar, giants by the score!
Well, you can blame another witch.

146. It's the last midnight.
It's the last verse.

147. Now, before it's past midnight,
I'm leaving you my last curse.

148. I'm leaving you alone.
You can tend the garden, it's yours.
Separate and alone.

149. Everybody down on all fours.
All right, Mother, when?

150. Lost the beans again!
Punish me the way you did then!

151. Give me claws and a hunch,
just away from this bunch.

152. And the gloom, and the doom
and the boom

153. Cruuunch!

157. Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata
Francesco Maria Piave

158. Act I: Duet
“O qual pallor! "

160. How pale I am!

162. You are here!

164. -Tell me, has your faintness passed?
-Yes, it’s better.

166. These midnight revels will someday kill you…you must
take care of yourself-

167. But can I?

169. If you were mine,
I would watch over you.

170. What are you saying? Is there anyone
to care for me?

171. That's because no one in the world loves you -

172. -No one?
-Except me.

173. It's true! I had forgotten this great love.

174. You laugh? Don’t you have a heart?

175. A heart? yes, maybe –
but why do you ask?

176. If that were so,
then you couldn't laugh at me.

177. -Are you serious?
-I don’t deceive you.

178. -Have you been in love with me for long?
-Yes, for a year.

179. One day you passed before me,
happy and light as air,

180. and ever since that day,
even without knowing it, I loved you -

181. with that love which is the very
breath of the universe itself -

182. mysterious and noble,
both cross and ecstasy of the heart.

183. Ah, if this is true, then leave me –
I offer you only friendship:

184. I cannot love, nor can I accept
so heroic a love from you.

185. I am simple and frank.
You must find another.

186. It won't be hard for you to forget me.

187. -It won't be hard for you to forget me…
-Oh mysterious and noble love…

188. …both cross and ecstasy of the heart.

190. Well, now?
What the devil are you doing?

191. -We were joking.
-Aha! Good! Please stay.

195. I obey. I shall leave you.

196. It's like that, then?

198. Take this flower.
-Why?

199. -You shall bring it back –
-When?

200. -When it has withered.
-Oh Heavens! Tomorrow .

201. Good, tomorrow.

202. I’m...I’m happy!

203. Do you still think you love me?

204. Oh, how much I love you!

205. -Tomorrow, then.
-How much I love you!

207. You’re leaving?

208. -Goodbye.
-I am leaving.

209. I desire nothing more.

210. Goodbye.

215. Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi
Giovacchino Forzano, after Dante

216. “Rimettiamoci a Schicchi!”

218. It’s just the captain who died…

219. Rest in Peace!

220. As for this house, the mule, and mills…

221. We leave the decision to
Gianni Schicchi!

223. Leave it to Schicchi!

225. As you wish-
Give me those clothes, hurry!

227. Here’s the night cap.

228. (Leave me the mule, house,
and mills of Signa,
you get thirty florins!)

230. (Leave me the properties,
one hundred florins!)

232. (Gianni, if you leave them to me,
I’ll stuff your pockets!)

233. Here’s the kerchief.
(leave us everything,
I’ll smother you with florins)

235. Here is the night gown.
(If you leave it all to me,
one thousand florins!)

237. Hurry, little darling, you must go to bed.

238. If all goes well, we’ll reward you.

239. -The egg becomes the chick…
-Show us your sleepy face.

240. -The snake changes skin...
-That red nose!

242. -My good Gianni…in order to serve us…
-You’ve transformed yourself!

243. -You’ve changed your appearance
to serve us.
-For his will and testament.

244. I’ll serve you!
You’ll get what you deserve!

245. Gianni Schicchi, our savior!

247. So perfect!

248. Off to bed!

253. Richard Strauss
Arabella
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

254. Act I: Duet “Ich danke, Fräulein”

256. Thank you, Fraulein. Pick me up tomorrow at the same
time,

257. I won't be needing you again today. Adieu.

259. What beautiful roses!

261. Did a hussar bring them?

262. -What do you mean, a hussar?
-A travelling foreigner's hussar!

263. No, they're from Matteo.

265. So that's how you treat his flowers!

266. And yet he brings you
fresh ones every day!

267. Oh stop it!
Who's the other bouquet from?

268. From Elemer.
The perfume is from Dominik,
the lace from Lamoral.

269. Those three!
They throw money around in threes,

270. they fall in love with the same girl-
and all three will probably end up
getting engaged to me!

271. They're worthless! The only person who's worth
anything is this one!

272. Oh stop it!
Those three are more amusing!

273. How can you say that!
Matteo loves you with all his soul…

274. …and with all his power.

275. -You used to be fond of him!
-Used to, yes. Perhaps.

276. But that's all over now,
as you so rightly say.

277. Watch that he doesn't
hear you say that!

278. It would be the death of him.
He adores you!

279. Zdenka dear, that exaggerated tone makes you sound
just like mama!

280. -You'd better watch yourself!
-It breaks my heart to see him suffer!

281. -Are you in love with him?
-I'm his friend!

282. His only friend in the whole world!

283. Zdenka, something dangerous has
recently appeared in you.

284. I think it's time you showed the world that you are a girl

285. and put an end to the masquerade.

286. I'll remain a boy to the very end.

288. I don't want to be a woman
such as you-

289. Proud, coquettish, and cold with it!

290. He's not the right man for me!

292. I'm serious,
I'm telling you the truth now!

293. I can't help being the way I am.

295. A man suddenly means a lot to me,

296. and then, just as quickly,
he means nothing for me!

297. It all happens in my head,

299. Quickly, too.
I don't understand how!

300. Questions begin to nag at me,
and I can’t find the answers,

301. neither by day nor night.

302. Quite against my will, my heart spins itself free from
him.

303. I can’t help it-

305. But if there is a man who is right
for me in this world,

306. he will stand before me one day,

307. he will look at me and I at him,

308. there will be no doubts
and no questions,

309. and I will be blessed…

310. …and obedient as a child.

312. I don’t really know you,
I don’t know whether you are right.

313. I love you too much for that!

314. All I want is for you to be happy.
with somebody who’s worth it!

315. And I want to help you in this.
This is just how the fortune teller saw it,

316. her up in the light,
and me down in the dark.

317. -But if there is a man who is right for me in this world…
-She is so fair and so kind…

318. I will go,

319. and even as I go I will bless you,
dear sister!

321. John Blow
Venus and Adonis
Anne Finch

322. Act III: Death Scene

324. Adonis, uncalled for sighs from
my sad bosom rise,

325. And grief has the dominion of my eyes.

326. A mourning Love passed by me now,

327. that sung of tombs and urns
and every mournful thing:

328. Return, Adonis, ‘tis for thee I grieve.

329. I come, as fast as Death
will give me leave:

330. Behold the wound made
by the Ædalian boar.

331. Faithful Adonis, now must be no more.

332. Ah, blood and warm life his
rosy cheeks forsake;

333. Alas, Death’s sleep thou art
too young to take:

334. My groans shall reach the heavens,

335. Powers above take pity on the wretched Queen of Love!

336. I could well endure the pointed dart,
did it not make the best of lovers part.

337. Ye cruel gods why should not I have the great privilege
to die?

338. Mighty Love, does my kind bosom fire:
Shall I for want of vital heat expire?

339. No! warm Life returns, and Death’s afraid this heart
(Love’s faithful kingdom) to invade.

340. No, the grim Monster gains the day;
With thy warm blood, life steals away.

341. I see Fate calls; let me on your
soft bosom lie,

342. There I did wish to live,
and there I beg to die.