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- CANIO Get away from there. He takes Nedda by the arms and lifts her down.
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In an act of revenge, Tonio tells Canio that Nedda is having an affair like he suspected. During a performance, Canio confronts Nedda, and stabs her. Silvio attempts to save Nedda, running up on stage, but gets stabbed by Canio as well.
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Nedda is frightened by Canio's vehemence ("Qual fiamma avea nel guardo"), but the birdsong comforts her ("Stridono lassù"). Tonio returns and confesses his love for her, but she laughs. Enraged, Tonio grabs Nedda, but she takes a whip, strikes him and drives him off.
With one bounce Canio is at the wall: Nedda throws herself before him, but after a brief struggle he pushes her aside, vaults over the wall and disappears. Tonio stays on the left looking at Nedda, who, as if nailed to the wall, tries to hear if there is any sound of a struggle.
As Canio tells Nedda just before he stabs her, “A man has little but his honor. And when it’s taken from him, only blood can restore it!” The magnificent score makes the pain of every one of these characters palpable and searing, and I have tried to imbue my translation with it as well. In the end, there is nothing but shock and sadness.
Canio, head of the troupe (Role in Commedia: Pagliaccio) - tenor. Nedda, Canio's wife, in love with Silvio (Colombina, Pagliaccio's wife, in love with Arlecchino) - soprano. Tonio, the fool (Taddeo) - baritone. Beppe, actor (Arlecchino, Colombina's lover) - tenor. Silvio, Nedda's lover - baritone.
(During the chorus, Canio has gone behind the theatre to take off his Pagliaccio costume. He returns, nods a smiling farewell to Nedda and leaves with Beppe and five or six villagers. Nedda remains alone.) Scene Two NEDDA What a fire in his glance! I lowered my eyes for fear that he read my secret thoughts. Oh, if he ever caught me, brute that ...
Jul 1, 2002 · When Canio threatens to kill her unless she identifies her lover, Nedda defies him thus: “No, by my mother! Maybe I am unworthy or whatever you want to call me, but I am not a coward!” Nedda apparently associates fierce independence with the memory of her mother.
