Act 1 Duet

Tosca
Mario! Mario! Mario!

Cavaradossi
I'm here!

Tosca
Why closed?

Cavaradossi
The Sacristan wants it...

Tosca
Who were you talking to?

Cavaradossi
To you!

Tosca
You were whispering other words.
Where is she?...

Cavaradossi
Who?

Tosca
Her!... That woman!...
I heard the swift
steps and the rustle of clothes...

Cavaradossi
Dreams!

Tosca
You deny it?

Cavaradossi
I deny it and I love you!

Tosca
Oh! Before the Madonna...
No, my Mario,
let me pray first, let me adorn her...

Now listen to me - tonight I sing,
but it's a short show. - You wait for me
at the door of the stage
and let's go to your villa alone, just us.

Cavaradossi
Tonight!

Tosca
It's a full moon
and the nocturnal floral scent
intoxicates the heart!
Aren't you happy?

Cavaradossi
Very!

Tosca
Say it again!

Cavaradossi
Very!

Tosca
You say it wrong, you say it wrong.
Don't you long for our little house
that waits for us all hidden in the green?
A sacred nest for us,
unknown to the whole world,
full of love and mystery.
To feel by your side
through the silent starry shadows,
the voices of things rising!
From the woods and bushes,
from the burning herbs,
from the depths of the shattered tombs
fragrant with thyme,
the night whispers emerge
of tiny loves
and treacherous advice
that soften the hearts.
Bloom, vast fields,
quiver, marine breezes,
marine breezes in the lunar dawn,
ah, rain down delights, starry vaults!
Tosca burns with mad love!

Cavaradossi
Ah, you entwine me in your snares,
my siren!

Tosca
Tosca burns with mad love in her blood!

Cavaradossi
My siren, I will come!

Tosca
Oh my love!

Cavaradossi
Now let me work.

Tosca
You dismiss me?

Cavaradossi
The work is urgent, you know!

Tosca
I'm going, I'm going!

Who is that blonde woman up there?

Cavaradossi
Magdalene. Do you like her?

Tosca
She's too beautiful!

Cavaradossi
Precious praise!

Tosca
Are you laughing?
Those sky-blue eyes I've seen before.

Cavaradossi
There are many like her in the world!

Tosca
Wait... Wait...
And Attavanti!...

Cavaradossi
Good!...

Tosca
Do you see her?
Does she love you?
Do you love her?... Do you love her?

Cavaradossi
It was pure chance...

Tosca
Those steps and whispers...
Ah! She was just here!

Cavaradossi
Come away!

Tosca
Ah, the owl!
To me, to me!

Cavaradossi
I saw her yesterday, but it was pure chance...
She came here to pray...
I didn't see her, I drew her back.

Tosca
Swear!

Cavaradossi
I swear!

Tosca
How she stares at me intently!

Cavaradossi
Come away!

Tosca
She mocks me, laughs.

Cavaradossi
Madness!

Tosca
Ah, those eyes!...

Cavaradossi
Which eye in the world can match
your burning black eye?
It's here that my being, my being
is completely fixed.
Eye for sweet love, for fierce anger!
Which other in the world can match
your black eye?

Tosca
Oh, how well you know
the art of making yourself loved!
But, make her eyes black!

Cavaradossi
My jealous one!

Tosca
Yes, I feel it.
I torment you incessantly.

Cavaradossi
My jealous one!

Tosca
I'm certain of forgiveness...

Cavaradossi
My jealous one!

Tosca
I'm certain of forgiveness
if you look at my pain!

Cavaradossi
My idolized Tosca,
everything about you pleases me;
the audacious anger
and the agony of love!

Tosca
I'm certain of forgiveness
if you look at my pain!
Say it again
the comforting word...
Say it again!

Cavaradossi
My life, restless lover,
I will always say: "Floria, I love you!"
Ah! the quiet soul,
I will always say "I love you!"

Tosca
God! How many sins!
You've completely disheveled me!

Cavaradossi
Now go, leave me!

Tosca
You stay at work until tonight.
And promise me:
whether by chance or fortune,
whether blonde or brunette,
no woman will come to pray!

Cavaradossi
I swear, my love!... Go!

Tosca
How you hurry me!

Cavaradossi
Again?

Tosca
No - forgive me!...

Cavaradossi
Before the Madonna?

Tosca
She's so good!
But make her eyes black!