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Subject Area: Music
Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE V.—: Enter Gilda, who throws herself into the arms of her father. - 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 V.—

EnterGilda,who throws herself into the arms of her father.

Gil.

My father!

Rig.

My dear Gilda!

My lords, she is my only child!

Oh, fear no more! It was only for jest

I cried, but now I laugh—Why dost thou weep?

Gil.

The fear—the shame—oh father!

Rig.

Alas! what dost thou say?

Gil.

I cannot speak in presence of so many.

Rig.

[To the Courtiers, in an imperious manner.

Away, depart from here!

And if the Duke should dare to approach this room,

Tell him he must not come, that I am here.

[Throws himself upon a chair.

All.

With children and with fools

We must sometimes seem to yield:

Let us go, but what he does

We shall spy herein concealed.

[Exeunt from the door in front, shutting it behind them.