Mozart's Don Giovanni
Fuggi, crudele, fuggi!
Metropolitan Opera, 2000

Renee Fleming as Donna Anna (soprano)
Paul Groves as Don Ottavio (tenor)

 

English Translation
(Dover Vocal Scores)

Donna Anna discovers that Don Giovanni has killed her father, the Commandant.  She and her fiance, Don Octavio, take an oath of vengeance.


Donna Anna
(pushing Don Octavio aside) :
Cruel, why art thou near me?
Leave me alone to perish!
Since he I most did cherish,
Is lost forever more!

Don Ottavio:
Listen to me, O listen,
Turn but thine eyes up on me.
I know thou'lt not disown me,
Who love thee ever more.

Donna Anna:
'Tis thou forgive, oh, dearest,
Of all now left me the nearest,
My father I would see!

Don Ottavio:
Your father?
Hush, oh, dearest,
Breathe not the word thou fearest,
Thou'st husband and father in me.

Donna Anna:
Ah!  My father, my father I would see!

Don Ottavio:
Hush, oh, dearest,
Breathe not the world thou fearest,
Thou'st husband and father in me.


Donna Anna:
Ah! if thou canst, avenge him,
Swear it by heaven above!

Don Ottavio:
I swear it.  I swear it.
By heaven I will avenge him,
I swear it on our love!

Donna Anna and Don Ottavio:
Oh vow of wrath and terror!
Oh night of dread lamenting!
Oh when will heaven relenting
Grant us of hope a ray,
Oh when will heaven relenting
Grant us of hope a ray.

Donna Anna:
If thou canst, avenge him, swear it!

Don Ottavio:
I swear it,
I will avenge him
I swear it by our love!

Donna Anna and Don Ottavio:
Oh vow of wrath and terror!
Oh night of wild lamenting!
Oh when will heaven relenting
Grant us of hope a ray,
Oh when will heaven relenting
Grant us of hope a ray.