Te Deum [Tosca] [English translation]

SCARPIA

Three agents ... a carriage ...

Quickly! ... follow her

wherever she goes! ... don't be seen! ... see to it!

SPOLETTA

Of course! Where shall I find you?

SCARPIA

Palazzo Farnese!

Go, Tosca! Scarpia is taking root in your heart! ...

Go, Tosca! Scarpia is

letting take flight the hawk

of your jealousy. How much promise

in your ready suspicion!

Scarpia is taking root in your heart!

Go, Tosca!

CHAPTER

Adjutorum nostrum in nomine Domini

CROWD

Qui fecit coelum et terram

CHAPTER

Sit nomen Domini benedictum

CROWD

Et hoc nunc et usquem in saeculum.

SCARPIA

Two birds with one stone

are in my sights, and it's not the head of the revolutionary

that is the most precious. Ah, in those commanding eyes

to see the fire

die away with the spasm of love,

in my arms ...

die away with love.

One on the gallows,

the other in my arms ...

CROWD

Te Deum laudamus:

Te Dominum confitemur!

SCARPIA

Tosca, you make me forget God!

ALL

Te aeternum Patrem

omnis terra veneratur!

• Artist:Giacomo Puccini