VV(4)61.04 Pazzo son!

[Dedalus]

YOU are a Goddess!!!  THANK you!!  I actually lost sleep over this a coupla
weeks ago, and eventually gave up, thinking it must be somewhere in Verdi!
Rossini was my second guess, but I ran out of energy.  Awesome!

Dedalus

jill wrote:

> I have discovered where Porpentine is singing the Italian opera, it is
> Puccini, the scene in ct III of Manon Lescaut where Des Grieux is imploring
> the guards to allow him to...
>
> here, I'll just cut from
> http://lascala.milano.it/1997_98/manon/soggetto.html.ita
>
> Act III
>
>  Le Havre. An open square near the port.
>
> Manon has been condemned to deportation and is in prison
> awaiting departure. Thanks to a sentry bribed by Lescaut, Des
> Grieux informs his beloved that her brother has organized a plan of
> escape. But it is thwarted and Manon is led off with the other
> women deportees to board the ship for America. After attempting
> in vain to rescue his beloved from her fate, Des Grieux implores
> the ship's captain to take him on board too, so that he can stay
> with Manon.
>
> DES GRIEUX
>                   Ah! Non v'avvicinate!
>                   Ché, vivo me, costei
>                   nessun strappar potrà!...
>                   No! Pazzo son!
> these are on      Guardate, pazzo son, guardate
>   page 61.        com'io piango ed imploro...
>                   come io piango, guardate,
>                   com'io chiedo pietà!
>
> -jill