Mozart in Love Page #2

("Cosi Fan Tutte: Sento,

O Dio" by Wolfgang Mozart)

Perhaps I made a mistake

in turning him down.

Who would have thought that

he would become so famous?

That was on my mind

when I married.

That he would never

have enough money.

I wasn't mistaken, was I?

A pauper's grave.

To tell the truth, I didn't

think he was a genius.

With clever young

people, you never know

how they're going to turn out.

Maybe if I had?

What's the use of wondering?

I wouldn't have

done it differently,

even if I could.

My life is a happy one.

We became friends

again years later.

It was unavoidable.

But I think, at the time,

he took it very badly.

("Cosi Fan Tutte: Non Son

Cattivo Comico" by Mozart)

[Voiceover] I was in despair.

("Die Zauberflote" by Mozart)

I went away and didn't see

any of them for three years.

I thought that I

could learn to forget.

I threw myself into my work.

I forgot nothing.

(graceful operatic music)

[Voiceover] He left us.

He left me.

I know I'll never see him again.

How can I endure such anguish?

Can a heart withstand

such agony and not burst?

I don't know how I'll survive.

("Die Zauberflote: Ach,

ich fhl's" by Mozart)

[Voiceover] I

suffered too, my angel.

In my anguish, like a

thunderbolt from heaven,

I remembered you, my

darling Constanza.

Your name was prophetic.

How you looked at me

with love so tenderly,

with such shy modesty.

Could it be that

you loved me then,

and still love me?

Dare I hope?

Or must I continue

living in this abyss?

How could I have been so blind

as not to see what was

before me all the time?

("Die Zauberflote: Act

I Finale" by Mozart)

I thought of you night and day.

Being away from you was

like being in exile.

Deprived of my senses,

drifting in a void.

("Die Zauberflote: Wie

stark ist nicht" by Mozart)

I had to come back to

you, my dream woman.

("Die Zauberflote: Dies Bildnis

ist bezaubernd" by Mozart)

I had to woo you as if

it were not a ritual

I had acted out a

dozen times before.

[Voiceover] I had

to let you in me

as if it were not a

fantasy that I had dreamed

a thousand times before.

("Cosi Fan Tutte: Fra

Gil Amplesii" by Mozart)

[Voiceover] To love again.

Can I explain how

wonderful it is

to someone unfortunate

enough not to know?

("Die Zauberflote: Dies Bildnis

ist bezaubernd" by Mozart)

[Voiceover] He's

lost to me forever.

To know that and have the

courage to continue living.

Can I explain how painful it is

to someone fortunate

enough not to know?

("Le Nozze Di Figaro:

L'ho Perduta" by Mozart)

[Voiceover] My poor

darling, my poor Sophie.

She's so young, so vulnerable.

I've done nothing to hurt her,

but I know my joy is her grief.

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