| Nessun Dorma! |
| Nessun Dorma!
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| Tu pure, o Principessa,
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| nella tua freda stanza
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| guardi le stelle che tremano d’amore
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| e di speranza!
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| Ma il mio mistero e chiusoin me,
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| No, no, sulla tua bocca lo diro
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| quando la luce splendera!
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| Ed il mio bacio sciogliera il silenzio
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| che ti fa mia!
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| Dilegua, o notte! |
| Tramontate, stelle!
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| Tramontate, stelle! |
| All’alba vincero!
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| Vincero! |
| Vincero!
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| SYNOPSES
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| Only the man who answers her riddles can marry the icy
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| princess Turandot; |
| those who fail die. |
| Calaf, a prince from another land, has
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| fallen in love with the beautiful Turandot and answered the riddles. |
| Though by law she must marry him, Turandot pleads to be spared: only if she answers his
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| riddles-his name.
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| ENGLISH TRANSLATION
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| No one’s sleeping! |
| No one’s sleeping!
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| This evening, icy princess
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| perhaps in your cold chambers,
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| watch all the bright stars
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| that tremble both with loving
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| and with desire
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| I keep my secret locked inside.
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| No one shall ever know my name!
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| No, no! |
| When our two mouths
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| touch, she’ll learn it,
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| when the morning light shines forth!
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| And then my kisses will dissolve
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| her silence and she will be mine!
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| May this night end! |
| May all the stars set!
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| And may all the stars set!
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| When dawn breaks, I shall win! |