Suicidio!
Giaconda, a ballad singer, has promised herself to Barnaba, a spy of the inquisition, in order to save Enzo, the man she loves, but who loves Laura. Her mother has been captured by the inquisition and she is alone.
Suicide!
In these awful moments you alone remain to me.
You alone tempt me. Last voice of my destiny, last cross of my journey!
Once upon a time the hours flew gaily by;
Lost now is my mother, lost is my love.
I overcame the consuming fever of jealousy.
Now I sink exhausted in the darkness!
I am reaching the end...I only ask heaven to sleep quietly
within the grave.
Suicide!
In these awful moments you alone remain to me.
You alone tempt me. Last voice of my destiny, last cross of my journey!
Once upon a time the hours flew gaily by;
Lost now is my mother, lost is my love.
I overcame the consuming fever of jealousy.
Now I sink exhausted in the darkness!
I am reaching the end...I only ask heaven to sleep quietly
within the grave.
