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Subject Area: Music
Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE III.—: Enter Rigoletto. - Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts [1851]

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Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts, words by Victor Hugo (New York: Fred Rullman, n.d.). Metropolitan Opera House, Grand Opera, Libretto.

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SCENE III.—

EnterRigoletto.

Mar.

Poor Rigoletto!

Chorus.

He comes. be silent.

All.

Good morning, Rigoletto.

Rig.

(They have deceived me!)

Cep.

What news, Buffoon?

Rig.

You are, I think,

More troublesome than ever.

All.

Ah! ah! ah!

Rig.

Ah! where can they have taken my dear child?

[Looking round uneasily.

All.

(Look, how uneasy he appears!)

Rig.

I am glad to find

The cold air of last night

Has done no harm to you.

Mar.

Last night?

Rig.

A fine affair it was.

Mar.

I slept all night.

Rig.

All night? I then have dreamed.

[He walks about, and seeing a handkerchief on the table, observes the mask.

All.

(Look how he spies all things.)

Rig.

(It is not hers.)

[Throwing it away.

Is the duke still asleen?

All.

Yes, he sleeps still.