No, no pazzo son – Manon Lescaut

No! No! I’m crazy!

Look, I’m crazy, look,

As I cry and I beg...

As I cry, look,

As I ask for pity!...

Listen! Take me

As a cabin boy or a lower position,

And I will come happily!... Accept me!

Ah! look, I cry and I beg!

Take my blood…my life!...

I implore you, I ask you for mercy!

Ah! mercy! I will not be ungrateful!

Placido Domingo as Des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut. For me one of his best roles.

Milan, 1978.