NEMORINO
However it is better to pretend I am aloof till she herself reveals her true feelings.
ADINA
Nemorino! How are you?
NEMORINO
I am faced with a problem, suddenly all the girls, pretty and ugly, want to have me for a husband
ADINA
And you?
NEMORINO
I havent yet decided which of them I shall marry. Ill think it over. My future is at stake. (It wont be long now)
ADINA
Listen to me.
NEMORINO
(Ah here we go.) Im listening, Adina
ADINA
Tell me, why must you leave us?
NEMORINO
Because I want to find out if in this way I will be happier and improve my present state.
ADINA
But here youre needed nad your person is precious. So I decided to redeem your agreement from Belcore.
NEMORINO
You did that? (Its only natural, the potion is working!)
ADINA
Hear me…
ADINA
Hear me…stay here, and live in freedom;
ADINA
Stay here where you are happy.
ADINA
Here where you’re loved by ev’ry one,
ADINA
live in peace and gladness, ah!
ADINA
going away would be madness.going away would be madness.
ADINA
Home is the place to be. Stay here.
ADINA
A brighter future
ADINA
is at hand! You will see!
NEMORINO
Now she will say it!
ADINA
Goodbye, then.
NEMORINO
What, you are going?
ADINA
Why yes
NEMORINO
You’ve nothing more to tell me?
ADINA
No, nothing.
NEMORINO
My happy days are over, if Dulcamara’s wrong.
ADINA
Ah no, don’t go! Don’t go away, you must have faith in your heart.
ADINA
I’ll confess at last, hear it then
You are dear to me.
NEMORINO
I!
ADINA
Yes, yes, you are and I love you, I love you!
NEMORINO
You love me?
ADINA
I love you truly, I love you.
NEMORINO
Oh, this is truly paradise.
ADINA
Just as I made you suffer once, now I shall make you happy
ADINA
Just as I made you suffer once,
ADINA
now I shall make you happy. No, now I shall make you happy, so happy.
ADINA
Tell me, why are you leaving?
go away as a soldier….Why did you do it
ADINA
Stay here where you are happy.
Hope for a brighter destiny is close at hand, you will see. Stay here!
