La Traviata

You're late in arriving

We were gambling at Flora's and the hours flew by

Flora, friends, let's fill the remaining hours with pleasure

The cup that cheers...

- Can you enjoy yourself? - I mean to

I trust to pleasure to soothe my misfortunes

Yes, let life be filled with joy

You have another admirer in Alfredo Germont

Friends such as he are few

Thank you, viscount, for this gift

- Dear Alfredo - Marquis

Pleasure and friendship go together here

Is everything ready? Friends, be seated

A party makes everyone happy

It's true, wine banishes our hidden cares

- Alfredo thinks of you constantly - Are you joking?

When you were ill he came every day to ask after you

- I am nothing to him - l' m serious

Is it true? I don't understand why

- Yes, it's true - Then l' m grateful

- Baron, you weren't so attentive - I've known you only a year

He's known me only a few minutes

You should have kept quiet

- I find that young man disagreeable - I think he's charming

Are you going to remain silent?

Our hostess must draw him out

- Like Hebe, I shall pour the wine - May you have her immortality

Raise your glasses

Baron, can't you give us an address, a few words?

- You, then - Yes, a toast

- lnspiration has left me - Are you not an expert?

- Would it please you? - Yes

I have it

Listen to the poet

Let us drink from cups adorned by beauty

Let the fleeting moment rejoice in pleasure

Let us drink in the sweetness that love arouses

For a glance has conquered our hearts

As we drink, we bring warmth to the kisses of love

As we drink, we bring warmth to the kisses of love

I shall share my days of happiness with you

In this world all is folly that is not pleasure

The pleasures of love are fleeting

Like flowers, they cannot be enjoyed when they are dead

Let us drink, while a seductive voice draws us on

Wine, song and laughter brighten the night hours

May the dawn find us in this paradise

Life lies in pleasure

When you are not in love

I know nothing of that

Yet such is my fate

Wine, song and laughter brighten the night hours

May the new dawn find us in this paradise

- Would you care to dance now? - A charming idea

- We all accept - Let us go

- What's wrong? - Nothing

What's happened?

Are you in pain?

- What is it? - I felt a shiver

Go ahead, l' ll join you shortly

As you wish

How pale I am

It's you

Has your distress passed?

I feel better

You'll kill yourself if you carry on

You should take care of yourself

How could l?

If you were mine I'd watch over you every day

What are you saying? No one looks after me

Because no one loves you

- No one? - Except for me

Of course, I'd forgotten your great love

You laugh. Have you no heart?

A heart, perhaps. Why do you ask?

If you did, then you wouldn't make fun

- Are you serious? - l' m not deceiving you

Have you loved me long?

Yes, for a year

You appeared before me, ethereal, one happy day

And since that day...

... I've lived for love

The love that is the heartbeat of the universe

Mysterious, exalted,

both pain and pleasure

If that's true, then run from me. I can offer only friendship

I cannot love, or bear such a heroic passion

I am simple and straightforward. You must look for someone else

Then you' ll easily forget me

Love that is mysterious and exalted

- You' ll easily forget me - Both pain and pleasure

What the devil are you doing?

- Making merry - Fine, stay where you are

Do you promise not to talk of love any more?

I' ll do as you say and leave you

Must you?

Take this flower

What for?

- To bring it back again - When?

When it has faded

Heavens, tomorrow

Very well, tomorrow

What happiness

Do you still say you love me?

I love you so much

Are you leaving?

I am

Goodbye

I desire nothing more

Goodbye

It is daybreak and we must leave

Thank you, madam, for such a splendid party

How strange

His words have stayed in my heart

Would a serious love affair be a mistake?

What does my troubled heart answer?

It has never been stirred by any man

To love and be loved is a joy I've never known

Can I refuse it for the barren pleasures of the way I live?

Perhaps he's the one my solitary heart...

... often liked to imagine in all his mystery

Modest and vigilant, he came here when I was ill

He caused another fever, waking me to love

The love that is the heartbeat of the universe

Mysterious, exalted,

both pain and pleasure

When I was a girl, my innocent, timid desire...

... conjured up how gentle this man would be

If I thought I saw his face in a trick of the light...

... then I felt protected

I felt that love was the heartbeat of the universe

Mysterious, exalted,

both pain and pleasure

Madness

These are idle dreams

Poor woman

Alone, abandoned to this teeming desert called Paris

What can I hope for? What should I do?

Enjoy myself

Perish in the whirlpool of pleasure

I must always be free, flitting from one pleasure to another

I want my life to follow the path of enjoyment

From dawn to dusk...

... I' ll do the rounds...

... happily thinking up ever new pleasures

Love is the heartbeat of the universe

Mysterious, exalted,

both pain and pleasure

Madness

I can't enjoy myself away from her

It's three months since Violetta left her easy life for me...

... and those grand parties where everyone was a slave to her beauty

Now she has forgotten it all for me in these lovely surroundings

Next to her I feel reborn

The breath of love has restored me

In her joy the past has been forgotten

With her smiling, gentle love...

... she has tempered my eager, youthful passion

Since the day she said, ' I want to live faithfully with you'...

... I've forgotten the world and almost feel I live in heaven

Annina, where have you been?

- Paris - Who sent you there?

- The mistress - What for?

To sell the coach and horses and everything else that's left

It's expensive living here

But you said nothing

- I was told to - Told?

How much is needed?

A thousand louis

I' ll travel to Paris myself

Don't tell the mistress we've discussed this

I can still make amends

Go

I' m so ashamed at how mistaken I've been

But truth has come to rouse me from my sleep

Let the call of honour be silent for a while

Honour will be avenged when I wash away this shame

- Alfredo? - He's just left for Paris

- When will he be back? - Before dusk, he said to tell you

How strange

I' m expecting a businessman, let him in as soon as he arrives

Flora has found out where I am

She's invited me to a dance tonight

She' ll wait for me in vain

- A man has arrived - It's the one l' m expecting

- Mademoiselle Valery? - Yes

I am Alfredo's father

Father of that reckless boy who risks ruin over you

I am a lady, and in my own home

Allow me to leave you, more for your sake than mine

Such manners

- However... - You have been misled

He intends to give you all he owns

He hasn't tried to yet. I would refuse

But all this luxury...

No one else knows about this

What a discovery

Do you mean to sell everything you have?

Then your past is a reproach to you

The past has gone. I love Alfredo now