A4 - Tutti – Che e cio?
ALL
What’s that?
VIOLETTA
Would you like to dance now?
ALL
Oh, what a pleasant thought!
We all accept.
VIOLETTA
Let’s go then!
(The guests move towards the centre door, but Violetta turns suddenly pale.)
Oh!
ALL
What’s the matter?
VIOLETTA
Nothing, nothing.
(She takes a few steps)
ALL
Why do you linger?
VIOLETTA
Let’s go!
(She is obliged to sit down.)
Oh, heavens!
ALL
Again!
ALFREDO
Are you ill?
ALL
Heavens! What’s the matter?
VIOLETTA
I’m trembling.
(She indicates the other room)
But go along.
I’ll join you in a moment.
ALL
If you say so.
(They all go into the other room except for Alfredo.)
VIOLETTA
(Getting up to look at herself in the glass)
Oh, how pale I am!
(She turns to Alfredo)
You here!
ALFREDO
Do you feel upset?
VIOLETTA
I’m better now.
ALFREDO
The way you were going on
You’ll kill yourself.
You should take more care of your health.
VIOLETTA
How can I?
ALFREDO
Oh, if I only had the right,
I’d be the most watchful guardian
Of your dear life.
VIOLETTA
What a thing to say!
Who cares what happens to me?
ALFREDO
(ardently)
For no one in the world loves you..
VIOLETTA
No one?
ALFREDO
… except me.
VIOLETTA
(laughing)
That’s true!
I’d forgotten that grand passion.
ALFREDO
You laugh!
But all the same, you have a heart.
VIIOLETTA
A heart? Yes, perhaps.
Why do you ask?
ALFREDO
Yes if you had, You wouldn’t make fun of me.
VIOLETTA
Are you really serious?
ALFREDO
I wouldn’t deceive you.
VIOLETTA
Then how long have you loved me?