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Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto (English)

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Contents: Cast; Act One; Act Two
ACT TWO

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.)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

(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.)

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.

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.

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.)

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

(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!

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.

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!

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.)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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?

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!

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.)

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!"

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!

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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!

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.

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?

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.)


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!

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.

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

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