Carmen (card trio)
Carmen
FRASQUITA:
Shuffle!
MERCEDES:
Shuffle!
FRASQUITA:
Cut!
MERCEDES:
Cut!
FRASQUITA:
Good, that’s it!
MERCEDES:
Good, that’s it!
FRASQUITA:
Three cards here.
MERCEDES:
Three cards here.
FRASQUITA:
Four there.
MERCEDES:
Four there.
BOTH
And now, speak, my beauties, of the future.
Give us some news.
Tell us who will betray us!
Tell us who will love us!
Speak!
MERCEDES:
Me, I see a young lover who loves me. No one could more.
FRASQUITA:
Mine is very rich and very old, but he speaks of marriage.
MERCEDES:
I plant myself on his horse and into the mountains he sweeps me away!
FRASQUITA:
In a castle, practically royal, mine installs me as a sovereign.
MERCEDES:
Love without ending, every day new madness.
FRASQUITA:
So much gold I couldn’t carry it, diamonds, gemstones!
MERCEDES:
Mine becomes a famous chef. A hundred men follow him!
FRASQUITA:
Mine, mine, can I believe my eyes, yes, he dies!
Ah! I am a widow and I inherit!
FRASQUITA & MERCEDES:
Speak again, speak my beauties, of the future.
Give us some news.
Tell us who will betray us!
Tell us who will love us!
Speak!
FRASQUITA:
Fortune!
MERCEDES:
Love!
CARMEN:
Let’s see. Let me try and take my turn.
Diamonds! Spades!
Death! I read it correctly.
Me first, then him. For both of us, death!
In vain to avoid bitter responses,
In vain you will shuffle.
That serves nothing. The cards are sincere and will not lie!
In the book on high, if your page is happy, shuffle and cut without fear:
The card under your fingers will turn up joyful, announcing to you happiness!
But if you have to die, the dreadful word is written by fate.
Restart twenty times, the pitiless card will repeat: death!
Again, again, always death!
FRASQUITA & MERCEDES:
Speak again, speak my beauties, of the future.
Give us some news.
Tell us who will betray us!
Tell us who will love us!
Speak!
CARMEN:
Again! The despair! The death! The death!
Again! The death!
FRASQUITA:
Fortune!
MERCEDES:
Love!
CARMEN:
Always death!
ALL THREE:
Again, again, again, again!