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Don Giovanni - Naxos Music Library

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(Si battano - IL COMMENDATORE è ferito.)<br />

IL COMMENDATORE<br />

Ah, soccorso! Son tradito!<br />

L’assassino m’ha ferito,<br />

E dal seno palpitante<br />

Sento l’anima partir.<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Ah, già cade il sciagurato,<br />

Affannosa e agonizzante,<br />

Già dal seno palpitante<br />

Veggo l’anima partir.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

Qual misfatto! Qual eccesso!<br />

Entro il sen dallo spavento<br />

Palpitar il cor mi sento!<br />

Io non so che far, che dir.<br />

(IL COMMENDATORE muore.)<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Leporello, ove sei?<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

Son qui, per mia disgrazia, e voi?<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Son qui.<br />

Zitto, mi pare sentir odor di femmina.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

(A parte)<br />

Cospetto, che odorato perfetto!<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

All’aria mi par bella.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

(A parte)<br />

E che occhio, dico!<br />

5<br />

6<br />

(They fight and THE COMMANDANT is<br />

mortally wounded.)<br />

THE COMMANDANT<br />

Help! I’ve been betrayed!<br />

The assassin has wounded me,<br />

And from my heaving breast<br />

I feel my soul escaping.<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Ah, already the wretch has fallen,<br />

And he gasps for air.<br />

From his heaving breast I already<br />

See his soul departing.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

What a misdeed! What a crime!<br />

I can feel my heart<br />

Beating hard from fright!<br />

I don’t know what to do or say.<br />

(THE COMMANDANT dies.)<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Leporello, where are you?<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

I’m here, unfortunately, and you?<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Over here.<br />

Quiet! I think I sniff a woman.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

(Aside)<br />

My, what a perfect sense of smell!<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

I think she’s attractive.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

(Aside)<br />

And what an eye!<br />

(Ils se battent. Le COMMANDEUR est<br />

blessé.)<br />

LE COMMANDEUR<br />

A l’aide! Le traître, l’assassin! Je meurs,<br />

Déjà mon sang se glace!<br />

Ah! Je sens mon âme fuir!<br />

Ah! Mon âme m’a quitté.<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Ah! Le malheureux succombe;<br />

il gémit dans l’agonie;<br />

je vois, de sa poitrine,<br />

l’âme errante qui s’exhale!<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

Quel crime atroce!<br />

L’épouvante me pénètre,<br />

tout mon cœur tremblant défaille!<br />

Je voudrais bien m’en aller!<br />

(Le COMMANDEUR meurt.)<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Es-tu là, Leporello?<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

Ici, pour ma disgrâce! Et vous?<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Ici.<br />

Silence...il passe une odeur de femme.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

(À part)<br />

Morbleu! Odorat prophétique!<br />

DON GIOVANNI<br />

Une allure charmante.<br />

LEPORELLO<br />

(À part)<br />

Il voit tout, ce diable!

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