L’elisir d’amore
Elixir of Love
NEMORINO
Beloved elixir, you’re mine! Yes, all mine!
How powerful your strength must be if you fill my heart with such joy before even drinking!
(But why can I not feel the elixir’s effect until a whole day has passed?)
Let me drink!
Oh, good! Oh, delightful! Another sip.
Oh! What sweet warmth courses through me from vein to vein!
Ah! Perhaps even she begins to feel the same flame.
Certainly, she feels it…
I’ve been told, by the joy and appetite that has been awakened in me all of a sudden…
La la la la la…
ADINA
(Who is that fool?)
Am I seeing things? Or is it Nemorino?
So happy! But why?
NEMORINO
La, la la… (Heavens! It’s her…but no…let me not hasten.)
(For now, let me not bore her with my sighs.)
(Besides…by tomorrow that heartless girl will fall in love with me.)
ADINA
(He won’t look at me even! How he has changed!)
NEMORINO
La, la ra la lera…
ADINA
(I don’t know if it is pretended or true his jocundity.)
NEMORINO
(So far love she does not feel.)
ADINA
(He want to pretend to be indifferent.)
NEMORINO
(Let her gloat for now over my pain, the cruel girl!
Tomorrow it will have an end, tomorrow she will love me.)
ADINA
(This fool would like to break and throw away his chains;
But he will feel them much heavier than usual.)
NEMORINO
La la la…
ADINA (approaching him)
Very good! My lesson helped you.
NEMORINO
That’s right; I’ll put it to work… just as a test.
ADINA
What about all your former suffering?
NEMORINO
I hope to forget it.
ADINA
What about that former ardor?
NEMORINO
It will be extinguished soon.
Just one more day, and my heart will be healed.
ADINA
Really, I am happy over it… but…
we shall see…
NEMORINO
(Let her gloat for now over my pain, the cruel girl!
Tomorrow it will have an end, tomorrow she will love me.)
ADINA
(This fool would like to break and throw away his chains;
But he will feel them much heavier than usual.)