VV(4)61.04 Pazzo son!

[jill]

I am flattered to be complemented by so acute a mind. however, how does
Porpentine know the words to Manon Lescaut before he sees the opera? A-and
even what-if the scene is out of order, isn't Porpentine to be shot at by
the second gunman in the end of VV 5? So, this is just another thing to
loose sleep about. I'm trying to compile a VV5 but it's harder than I
thought. There is order, yet unfamiliar order. part IV-VII seem out of
order. Part III seems to go before part VIII. It means but it doesn't add
up.

-jill

Dedalus wrote:
> 
> 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