"Prenderò quel brunettino"

I'll take the brown haired one

FIORDILIGI
You decide, sister!

DORABELLA
I've already decided! I'll take the dark one, who seems to me more fun.

FIORDILIGI
And meantime I'll laugh and joke a bit with the fair one.

DORABELLA
Playfully I'll answer his sweet words.

FIORDILIGI
Sighing, I'll imitate the other's sighs.

DORABELLA
He'll say to me:
My love, I'm dying!

FIORDILIGI
He'll say to me:
My dearest treasure!

FIORDILIGI AND DORABELLA
And meanwhile
What sport and pleasure we'll have!

Fiordiligi and Dorabella are sisters from German composer, Mozart's comic opera Cosí fan tutte (That's the way woman are). Two brothers, Guglielmo and Ferrando, are absolutely certain of winning a bet that, unlike all other women, their fianceés would always be true and faithful. So they agree to pretend to be called away to war, then return in disguise to seduce each others' loves. Unfortunately for them, the sisters decide that a little flirting is harmless . . .

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