Dalla sua pace - Don Giovanni

My peace depends upon her peace;

That which pleases her gives life to me,

That which hurts her gives death to me.

If she sighs, I sigh as well;

Her wrath is mine, her cry is mine;

And I have no good, if she has none.

Luigi Alva as Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Aix, 1960.

Tu che a Dio spiegasti l’ali – Lucia di Lammermoor

Edgardo

You who unfolded your wings to God

O beautiful, loving soul

Turn yourself back to me, satisfied;

Your faithful one ascends with you.

Ah! If the wrath of mortals

Brings such a cruel war to us,

If we are divided on earth,

May God in heaven join us.

Raimondo

Madman!...

Raimondo, Chorus

Ah! What are you doing?

Edgardo

I want to die, I want to die!

Raimondo, Chorus

Be sensible, be sensible!

Edgardo

No, no no!

Raimondo

What have you done?

Edgardo

I’m coming to you, o beautiful soul…

Raimondo

Wretched man!

Edgardo

Turn yourself back ah! To your faithful one.

Raimondo

Think of heaven!

Edgardo

Ah, if the wrath of mortals

Such a cruel war...
O beautiful soul, may God in heaven join us.
O beautiful, loving soul,
May God in heaven join us.

Chorus

What horror!

Raimondo

O God, forgive him!

Chorus

Oh awful, black fate!
God, pardon this great horror!

Jose Carreras sings the great final aria from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Bregenz, 1982.