Manrico
The awaited signal, could it be Ruiz,
Perhaps. Answer.
Azucena
Avenge me!
Manrico
You may approach (to the messenger)
What brought you here? Tidings of war?
Messenger
I bear a letter. It will tell you all.
Manrico
“Our men have taken Castellor. (reading a letter from the messenger)
The prince’s order is that you come immediately,
to defend it,
Unless your unhealed wounds have laid you low.
I shall expect you. Know that, deceived by tidings
of your death, the fair Leonora will this day
become the bride elect of Heaven.”
Oh cruel Fortune.
Azucena
What does he say?
Manrico
Go, quickly, bring me a horse (to the messenger)
Go down the hill and await me there.
Azucena
Manrico
Manbrico
Don’t lose a moment, fly then, await me,
The moments are pressing.
Azucena
Manrico, what do you want? (The messenger leaves)
Manrico
(If I am too late, oh cruel torment)
Azucena
He’s in despair.
Manrico
Goodbye.
Azucena
No, give me an answer.
Manrico
Let me go!
Azucena
Listen, it is your mother speaking!
Will you leave me here in sadness
For a path of toil and in anger?
You are feeble, and yet it is madness!
Your life will be certainly in danger.
No, you must not leave weeping,
You have my life in your keeping.
If a danger now comes to you,
It will break your mother’s heart,
It will break your mother’s heart,
It will break your mother’s heart.
Ah! Ah! Can you leave me?
You will break my heart!
Manrico
Let me go, do not detain me any longer,
I will perish if I lose her!
Heaven and earth cannot restrain me,
I must fly to tell that I live.
Azucena
It is madness!
Manrico
It is in vain to resist, O mother,
You must do away with your foreboding
I would rather die than part from the maid
Whom I love.
Azucena
No, you must not leave me weeping
Manrico
You must do away with your forebodings.
Azucena
You cannot leave me weeping. You have my life in your hands.
If a danger comes to you, it will break your mother’s heart.
Manrico
It is in vain to resist, O mother,
You must do away with your forebodings
I would rather die than part from the maid
Whom I love.
Azucena
Stay then, o stay
Manrico
Let me go, let me go.
Azucena
Hear me, hear me.
Manrico
Heaven and earth shall not restrain me. Let me go,
Let me go! Farewell! Let me go,
Let me go, let me go, let me go.
Azucena
Stay, hear me, it is I who speak to you.
Speak to you, stay, stay, stay, stay,
Stay, ah stay, stay, stay, deh! stay
Stay, ah stay, stay, stay.
Manrico
Deh! Let me go, let me go, farewell, farewell!