TRANSITION
RIZZOLLI
To feel a woman's touch,
To touch a woman's hand,
Reminded me how much I long to be with you.
How long I've been without you near.
And then to hear a woman's voice,
To hold a woman's arm
To feel a woman's touch...
FORTY DAYS
CLARA
Giorgio, darling
Forty days' leave so soon!
Imagine that,
A whole forty days --
Well, forty matinees,
I'll be there to greet the train
That carried you away from me
Because it brings you home.
I'm filling up the room.
Our little room,
With every flower in bloom.
I'll have the fire lit,
The table set,
I'll wear the blue chemise.
And once we're in our room,
Our secret room,
Where I'll be able to care for you,
Kiss you,
Embrace you,
Be there for you....
LOVING YOU
GIORGIO
(spoken) Fosca, you have to face the truth.
Please.
You have to give me up.
FOSCA
Loving you
Is not a choice,
It's who I am.
Loving you
Is not a choice
And not much reason
To rejoice.
But it gives me purpose,
Gives me voice,
To say to the world:
This is why I live.
You are why I live.
Loving you
Is why I do
The things I do.
Loving you
Is not in my control.
But loving you
I have a goal.
For what's left of my life...
I will live,
And I would die
For you.
TRANSITION
WOMAN
How long were we apart...
MAN
A month, a week, a day?
WOMAN
To feel you touch again...
MAN
You've never been away...
SOLDIERS' GOSSIP
TORASSO
Forty days -- !
COOK
Where does he get all the luck?
TORASSO
Forty days -- !
RIZZOLLI
The man is sick.
TORASSO
But forty days -- !
BARRI
Yes, he's sick of being stuck
In the sticks.
AUGENTI
Who isn't?
TORASSO
In Milan -- !
COOK
He's gone
Because it's getting pretty thick
With the Signora.
RIZZOLLI
Gentlemen --
AUGENTI
He'd better get out quick
From the Signora.
RIZZOLLI
Gentleman --
BARRI
That's not a easy trick with the Signora.
RIZZOLLI
Gentlemen!
You know what I think?
We need another drink!
COOK
(spoken) I'll say.
RIZZOLLI
I'll say!
ALL
I'll say!
I'll say!
I'll say!
FAREWELL LETTER
CLARA
Giorgio ...
Giorgio...
I am writing to you
My angel,
Though not long since you've been gone,
With a most unhappy heart.
Because, in truth, as time goes on,
I think of nothing else but you --
and us.
Oh, my love, my sweet,
You've changed.
I've watched you change
You're not the man I thought I knew.
At time, there past few days together,
I would wonder whether you were here,
Really here with me.
I though, was I naive
To believe
We'd continue year by year?
Is it over forever?
(spoken) When my son is older, when he goes off to school,
there is the chance for us to be together.
Will you wait for me, Giorgio? I have to know.
We both have to know.
GIORGIO
Just another love story.
CLARA
No one is to blame.
GIORGIO
A temporary love story.
CLARA
But it needn't end the same.
GIORGIO
I thought we had more.
CLARA
We had more --
GIORGIO
We had something more --
BOTH
-- Than any other love story.
CLARA
All that happiness --
GIORGIO
Is this what you call love?
CLARA
-- We had then --
GIORGIO
This logical and sensible
Practical arrangement --
CLARA
We can have that happiness --
GIORGIO
-- This foregone conclusion --
CLARA
-- Once again!
GIORGIO
-- You think that this is love?
Love isn't so convenient.
Love isn't something scheduled in advance,
Not something guaranteed
You need
For fear it may pass you by.
You have to take a chance.
You can't just try it out.
What's love unless it's
Unconditional?
Love doesn't give a damn about
Tomorrow.
And neither do I!
CLARA
All that happiness --
GIORGIO
It was fine.
CLARA
-- In the past --
GIORGIO
I was yours, you were mine.
CLARA
That was not just happiness,
Love was in that happiness,
That's why it will last.
GIORGIO
Love is more, I want more.
BOTH
I thought I knew what love was --
CLARA
I didn't know that
Love was a complication.
GIORGIO
I do know that it's not a negotiation.
CLARA
We'll take it in our stride.
GIORGIO
What we had --
CLARA
You decide.
GIORGIO
-- Wasn't bad.
CLARA
We could have everything,
I want you more than anything.
GIORGIO
How sad --
CLARA
To wait is nothing.
We're young, and time is nothing.
GIORGIO
-- That what we have is nothing.
CLARA
Nothing...
BOTH
Nothing...
NO ONE HAS EVER LOVED ME
GIORGIO
(spoken) The letter from Clara...
FOSCA
(spoken) Yes?
GIORGIO
(spoken) It's over. Finished.
FOSCA
(spoken) I'm sorry.
GIORGIO
(spoken) Sorry? I would have thought that you would be pleased.
FOSCA
(spoken) I don't wish to see you sad.
GIORGIO
(spoken) I feel so much...but I'm not really sad.
FOSCA
(spoken) I thought you loved Clara.
GIORGIO
(spoken) I did love Clara. I did. But...
(sung) No one has ever love me
As deeply as you.
No one has truly love me
As you have, Fosca.
Love without reason, love without mercy.
Love without pride or shame.
Love unconcerned
With being returned --
No wisdom, no judgement,
No caution, no blame.
No one has ever known me
As clearly has you
No one has ever shown me
What love could be like until now.
Not pretty or safe or easy,
But more than I ever know.
Love within reason -- that isn't love.
And I've learned that from you...
(spoken) Are you cold?
FOSCA
(spoken) No, I'm afraid.
GIORGIO
(spoken) Of what?
FOSCA
All this happiness,
Coming when there's so little time.
Too much happiness,
More than I can bear.
(spoken) You do love me, don't you?
GIORGIO
(spoken) Yes, I love you.
FOSCA
(spoken) Say it again.
GIORGIO
(spoken) I love you.
Be calm.
I am yours.
FINALE
BARRI, RIZZOLLI AND TORASSO
The town, it is remote, isn't it?
And provincial --
Don't you think?
CLARA
I'm filling up our room,
Our little room,
With every flower in bloom.
I'll have the fire lit
The table set.
I'll wear the blue chemise.
LUDOVIC
The time has come to face
The truth,
Signorina...
ATTENDANTS
This sterile little town,
These pompous little men.
COOK, AUGENTI AND SOLDIER ONE
This military madness...
ATTENDANTS
Military madness...
COOK, AUGENTI, SOLDIER ONE AND ATTENDANTS
Uniforms, uniforms...
CLARA
Imagining your fingers touching mine.
Imagining our room
The bed, the secrecy,
The world outside,
Your mouth on mine...
COLONEL
An unattractive woman
Is easily deceived...
GIORGIO
(spoken) My dearest Giorgio. The end is near.
The time has come for me to surrender life gracefully.
These past two days since you have left, since we were together,
have been a revelation.
(sung) Now at last
I see what comes
From feeling loved.
Strange, how merely
Feeling loved,
GIORGIO AND FOSCA
You see things clearly.
Things I feared
Like the world itself,
I now love dearly.
I want to live.
Now I want to live.
FOSCA
Just from being loved.
All that pain
I nursed inside
For all those years --
GIORGIO
All that vain
And bitter self-concern --
BOTH
All those tears
And all that pride
Have vanished into air...
FOSCA
I don't want to leave.
GIORGIO
Now that I am loved.
FOSCA
I don't want to leave.
BOTH
Everywhere I turn,
You are there.
FOSCA
Everywhere I look,
Things are different.
BOTH
Everything seems right,
Everything seems possible,
Every moment bursts with feeling.
Why is love so easy to give
And so hard to receive?
FOSCA
But though I want to live,
I now can leave
With what I never knew:
I'm someone to be loved.
GIORGIO
I'm someone to be loved.
FOSCA
And that I learned from you.
ALL
I don't know how I let you
So far inside my mind.
But there you are and there you will stay
How could I ever wish you away?
I see now I was blind.
FOSCA
And should you die tomorrow,
Another thing I see:
GIORGIO
Your love will live in me...
FOSCA
Your love will live in me...
GIORGIO AND GROUP ONE
Your love will live in me...
FOSCA AND GROUP TWO
Your love will live in me...
GIORGIO AND GROUP ONE
Your love will live in me...
FOSCA AND GROUP TWO
Your love will live in me...
GIORGIO AND GROUP ONE
Your love will live in me...
FOSCA AND GROUP TWO
Your love will live in me...
GIORGIO
Your love will live in me...
FOSCA
Your love will live in me...
GIORGIO
Your love will live in me...
