DON PASQUALE - Noreen/Ernesto love duet (Act III)

Ernesto and Noreen meet in secret in Don Pasquale's garden.

NOREEN & ERNESTO:
Say once again that you love me
Tell me again how you care for me
Promise you'll always be there for me
Swear dear, you'll stay by me for life
Love turns the earth into paradise
Here in your arms I'm in heaven
I'm surely in heaven
So stay in my arms forever
Say that you'll leave me never
Vow that you'll love me till death us do part
I swear it with all my heart
I swear till death us do part
I swear with all my heart
Ah...
Ah...
With all my heart.
words © Tom Boyd

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Music

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• Bel
• Canto
• Opera
• Don
• Pasquale
• Donizetti
• Ernesto
• Stephen
• Brown
• Norina
• Boyd

[whmozart]

It is a pitty that it's in english. An opera is like a book. It should only be heard/read in it's original language. So much gets lost in translation and the phonetics just don't fit.

[hughdrover]

If you can read Dickens in English, Dumas in French, Tolstoy in Russian, Dante in Italian, Cervantes in Spanish and Goethe in German you should be in the Guinness Book of Records. It may be a pity that theatre audiences dont understand 4, 5 or 6 different languages, but Im afraid they are not so clever as you, and like to understand what is happening and why.

[AminaBellini]

Nice but, why are they performing this famous ITALIAN opera in english?

[hughdrover]

For the same reason famous English and American films are dubbed into Italian when shown in Italy - audience comprehension. This version was performed in England for an English-speaking audience.

[AminaBellini]

well, you are right..jeje..good point!

[traubloch]

Charming

[spgtenor]

Wonderful blending of the two voices. Excellent control by the tenor, the tessitura is not easy to manage in this duet.