Excerpt from the English translation
by Donald Pippin, at Pocket Opera.
Act I opening aria (Notte e giorno faticar)
Leporello:
Night and day it's toil and sweat
For a master hard to please,
Out in weather cold and wet,
Often down on hands and knees.Why should he hold all the aces?
While he makes a gallant entry
I'm stuck outside playing sentry....I am all for changing places;
Servant work is not for me;
Toil is not my cup of tea.
No, no, no, no, no, no,
This work is not for me.
Donna Elvira seeks vengeance for Don Giovanni's having abandoned herDonna Elvira:
Where is the kindly person
To tell me where he's fled?
A helpless prey of passion,
By love was I misled,
Flattered, and then betrayed.Oh, let him run for cover,
Turn from the tears I've shed.
I'll find the faithless lover
And see my pain repaid.