Fin ch'han dal vino – Don Giovanni

Until they have become hot-headed with wine,

Let’s prepare a grand party.

If you find a girl in the piazza,

Try to bring her here.

May the dance be wild,

Who will be the minuet, who the folia

Who will dance the allemande with you.                       

Meanwhile, I’ll be singing my own song 

Flirting with this girl and that girl.

Ah you must add to my list

About ten entries tomorrow morning

Simon Keenlyside sings the champagne aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Ferrara, 1997. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

Hai già vinta la causa – Nozze di Figaro

You’ve already won the case! What’s this I hear!
What snare have I fallen into? Miscreants! I want to…
To punish you all...to please myself
the sentence will be...But if he should pay
the old pretender?
Pay her! In what manner! And then there’s Antonio,
Who refuses to give that unknown Figaro
his niece in marriage.
Cultivating the pride
of this idiot...
It’s all profitable for a scam... the deed is done.

Will I see, while I sigh,
one of my servants happy!
And the good that I desire in vain,
shall he have it?
Will the hand of love
Be united to a vile object
The same woman who awakened love in me
But did not have love for me?
Ah no, leave it alone,
I don’t want this happiness,
You were not born, audacious man,
to torment me,
or perhaps yet to laugh

At my unhappiness.
My only hope now
is my vendetta.

It consoles my spirit,
and makes me rejoice.

Simon Keenlyside sings the Count's aria from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.

Vienna, 2001. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.

Deh, vieni alla finestra – Don Giovanni

We’ll see.

These are the windows.

Let’s sing now.

Come to the window,

O my darling!

Come to dry

my tears.

If you refuse to give me

some restoration,

in front of your eyes

I will want to die.

You have a mouth

sweeter than honey.

You carry

sugar in your heart.

Don’t be, my joy,

cruel with me.

Let me at least see you,

my fair love!

Simon Keenlyside sings the serenade from Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Notte e giorno faticar – Don Giovanni

Leporello
Laboring night and day,
For a man who is never happy,
To endure the wind and rain,
To eat badly, to sleep badly.
I want to become a gentleman
And I don’t want to serve anymore...
Oh what a dear great man!
He wants to stay inside with the beauty,
While I have to keep watch!
I want to become a gentleman
And I don’t want to serve anymore…
I think I hear people coming
I don’t want to make a sound.

Donna Anna
Don’t hope, if you don’t kill me,
I’ll never let you go!

Don Giovanni
Mad woman! Vain cries,
You’ll never know who I am!

Leporello
What a rucuss! Oh heavens, what cries!
The master is in new trouble.

Donna Anna
People! Servants! Get the traitor!

Don Giovanni
Be quiet and tremble at my fury!

Donna Anna
Villain!

Don Giovanni
Watch yourself!

Leporello
Wait and see, the villain
Will cast me down!

Donna Anna
Like a desperate fury
I will know you and follow you!

Don Giovanni
This desperate fury
Wants to cast me down!

Il Commendatore
Leave her alone, wretch!
Fight me!

Don Giovanni
Go away, I won’t condescend
To fight with you.

Il Commendatore
Do you think you can run away from me?

Leporello
I could at least leave here!

Don Giovanni
Wretch, wait,
If you want to die!

Il Commendatore
Ah, rescue me! I am betrayed!
The assassin has injured me,
And from the throbbing breast
I feel the soul depart.

Don Giovanni
Ah, already the unfortunate has fallen,
Labored and agonizing,
Already from the throbbing bosom
I see the soul depart.

Leporello
What mischief! What excess!
Within a breast full of fear
I feel my heart trembling!
I don’t know what to do, what to say.

Bryn Terfel as Leporello, Simon Keenlyside as Don Giovanni, Matti Salminen as the Commendatore, and Carmela Remigio as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Ferrara, 1997. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.