Act 2 pp. 325-349 What a good time hes having Duet with Dulc Flashcards
AFTER ACT 2 FINALE
ADINA
What a good time he’s having!
DULCAMARA
Mine is the credit…
ADINA
Yours, do you say?
DULCAMARA
all that he has become is my creation.
ADINA
What nonsense!
DULCAMARA
for instance, the powerful elixir used by Queen Isolde.
ADINA
Isolda?
DULCAMARA
Isolda. It’s I who have the secret of the potion,
ADINA
Amazing!
ADINA
Amazing!
ADINA
And that’s the potion you gave to Nemorino?
DULCAMARA
He bought it from me, so he may win the favor of some unfeeling beauty.
ADINA
You mean he loves her?
DULCAMARA
to sacrifice his freedom, and join the army.
ADINA
His was true love, and I despised it.
ADINA
His was true love, and I despised it.
ADINA
Cruel girl, what did I do!
DULCAMARA
It is obvious she adores him!
ADINA
I despised it,
DULCAMARA
What she needs is my elixir!
ADINA
I despised it!
ADINA
I despised it!
ADINA
And it’s true, then, that Nemorino turned the heads of all the women?
DULCAMARA
All the females of the village cannot bear to do without him!
ADINA
Oh! Has he told you, who is his favorite of the girls who court and woo him?
DULCAMARA
of the barnyard he’s commander, all those geese and just one gander!
ADINA
And to me he was devoted
DULCAMARA
What she needs is my elixir!
ADINA
I alone possessed his heart!
DULCAMARA
She adores him that is clear!
ADINA
How ungrateful!
DULCAMARA
from your glances, your air of mourning. If you want it?
ADINA
Want what?
DULCAMARA
it will cure you and relieve you through the magic of its spell.
ADINA
That would suit me to perfection, but it would not work for me.
DULCAMARA
Would you like a thousand lovers at your feet, abject and mooning?
ADINA
I don’t need a thousand lovers, only one for whom I’m swooning!
DULCAMARA
All the women will be jealous, daughters, widows, cousins, mothers
ADINA
I have never been too zealous to disturb the peace of others
DULCAMARA
Do you want a man with riches?
ADINA
I am not concerned with riches.
DULCAMARA
Then a noble, a country squire?
ADINA
Nemorino I desire!
DULCAMARA
If you follow my directions
ADINA
I don’t mean to cast reflections
DULCAMARA
It would do you lots of good
ADINA
But I do not think it would, no, no, I do not think it would, no, but I really do not think that it would.
DULCAMARA
Are you casting an aspersion on the power of my potion?
ADINA
I respect your potion highly, but I have a better version
ADINA
I respect your potion highly, but I have a better version
ADINA
Nemorino can’t escape me, he’ll be mine and mine alone.
