LIBRETTO - Naxos Music Library
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ooklet472.qxd 18/02/2005 14.35 Pagina 45<br />
sfilano sulla piazza)<br />
Corcelli/ Briganti/ Parte del Popolo -<br />
Per cacciare lo straniero<br />
Tanto sangue fu versato...<br />
Ed al giogo abbominato<br />
Noi dovrem ancor piegar!...<br />
Gennariello - (avanzandosi poco prima del duce)<br />
Oh! Mirate... è Salvatore!<br />
Presso al Duca!... Quale onore!...<br />
Tanta gioia nel suo volto<br />
Mai non videsi brillar!...<br />
Duca d’Arcos, Cortigiani, Isabella, Bianca, Dame,<br />
Salvatore, Fernandez, il Conte di Badajoz, Masaniello,<br />
Gennariello, Fra Lorenzo, Corcelli, Popolo, Briganti.<br />
5 Duca - (a Salvatore)<br />
Dov’è l’eroe del popolo?<br />
Salvatore - (additando Masaniello)<br />
Eccolo...<br />
Duca - (tendendo la mano a Masaniello)<br />
A te la mano!<br />
(Consegnando solennemente un foglio a Masaniello)<br />
Per te la pace in Napoli,<br />
La libertà rivive!...<br />
(Volgendosi al Popolo)<br />
Di Carlo Quinto a voi<br />
Le antiche leggi io rendo...<br />
A un popolo di eroi<br />
Nulla poss’io negar...<br />
Coro - (a parte)<br />
Tanto cortese a noi?...<br />
E in lui dovrem fidar!...<br />
Duca - (abbracciando Masaniello mal celando l’ironia)<br />
6 Vieni, o di popoli - invitto duce...<br />
Da te avran luce - i miei pensier...<br />
Presso il mio trono - tu regnerai...<br />
45<br />
Fernandez at their head, march across the square)<br />
Corcelli/ Brigands/ Some People-<br />
To be free of the foreigner<br />
so much blood has been shed...<br />
And now we are expected to bend again<br />
under their wicked yoke!...<br />
Gennariello - (advancing just ahead of the Duke)<br />
Oh! Look... it’s Salvatore!<br />
Near the Duke!... What an honour!...<br />
Never was his face<br />
more radiant!<br />
The Duke of Arcos, Noblemen, Isabella, Bianca, Ladies,<br />
Salvatore, Fernandez, the Count of Badajoz, Masaniello,<br />
Gennariello, Fra Lorenzo, Corcelli, People, Brigands.<br />
5 Duke - (to Salvatore)<br />
Where is the people’s hero?<br />
Salvatore - (showing Masaniello)<br />
There he is...<br />
Duke - (offering his hand to Masaniello)<br />
Shake my hand!<br />
(Solemnly giving Masaniello a paper)<br />
Thanks to you peace<br />
and freedom are restored in Naples!...<br />
(Turning to the people)<br />
I reinstate<br />
the former laws of Charles V...<br />
To a people of heroes<br />
I can deny nothing...<br />
Chorus - (aside)<br />
Whence all this kindness?...<br />
And we are expected to trust him!...<br />
Duke - (embracing Masaniello, with illconcealed irony)<br />
6 Come, invincible leader of peoples...<br />
you shall enlighten my thinking...<br />
you shall rule by my throne...
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