I Capuleti e i Montecchi
(or, Romeo & Juliet)
ROMEO:
Here is the tomb…
Already strewn with flowers and soft tears
Receive my tears, more painful and bitter,
And better than tears, I bring you another sacrifice.
Oh tomb’s deep darkness,
Surrender for one moment to the light of day,
And reveal your prey.
Open for me, and let me see her again.
You alone, oh my Giulietta, you alone can hear me.
Oh, vain hope!
Her cold body cannot hear my voice…
I am alone in the earth, I am abandoned!
Oh you beautiful soul ascending to heaven,
Return to me and take me with you:
You cannot forget me like this,
You cannot leave me, beautiful soul,
With my grief.
(to poison ring) Oh you are my only hope, fatal poison,
Never parted from me,
Come to my lips.
Receive my final breath, tombs of my enemies.
GIULETTA:
Ah
ROMEO:
Who sighs?
GIULETTA:
Romeo
ROMEO:
It is her voice!
GIULETTA:
Romeo
ROMEO:
She calls me! Already she invites me to her breast.
Heavens! What do I see?
GIULETTA:
Romeo!
ROMEO:
Giulietta! Oh god!
GIULETTA:
Is it you?
ROMEO:
You live?
GIULETTA:
I awaken to never leave you again, my love…
My death was not real.
ROMEO:
What are you saying?
GIULETTA:
Do you not know? Did you not see Lorenzo?
ROMEO:
I saw nothing else… I knew nothing else… oh!
But that you were dead here.
And here I came… oh, agony!
GIULETTA:
What does it matter now?
I am with you: our embrace erases every pain.
Let us go!
ROMEO:
I must rest here forever.
GIULETTA:
What are you saying? Speak… Speak… ah, Romeo!
ROMEO:
You already know everything.
GIULETTA:
Oh, you are cruel! What have you done?!
ROMEO:
I wanted to die near you.
GIULETTA:
Let me go find help for you…
ROMEO:
Stop, it’s too late…
GIULETTA:
Oh cruel destiny!
ROMEO:
I have cruel death in my breast.
GIULETTA:
I will meet death with you, at least…
Give me a blade…
ROMEO:
No, never!
GIULETTA:
A poison…
ROMEO:
I drank it all.
Live, and come sometimes to my grave and cry.
GIULETTA:
Cruel heaven, before he dies, end my days!
ROMEO:
Live, and come sometimes to my grave and cry
Giulietta! Hold me to your breast.
I can barely see you now.
GIULETTA:
And I return to life when you must die!
ROMEO:
Stop… seeing you in pain hurts more than death.
I cannot see you anymore.
Ah, speak to me…
GIULETTA:
Oh, my Romeo!
ROMEO:
One word more…
GIULETTA:
Do not leave me again…
ROMEO:
Remember our love
GIULETTA:
Rest on my heart
ROMEO:
Remember our love
GIULETTA:
Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me again!
ROMEO:
Giulietta! I faint!
GIULETTA:
Wait for me…
ROMEO:
Goodbye… Giulie-
GIULETTA:
He’s dead…
Oh god!