Daughter Liesgen (Soprano), Cafe Owner Erzähler (Tenor), Father Schlendrian (stick in the mud) (Bass)
1. Recitative Tenor - cafe owner:
Be quiet, do not chat, And listen to what happens now:
Here comes Mr. Schlendrian with his daughter Liesgen,
He grumbles like a grizzly bear; hear for yourselves, what she has done to him!
2. Aria Bass - father:
Here comes Mr. Schlendrian with his daughter Liesgen,
He grumbles like a grizzly bear; hear for yourselves, what she has done to him!
2. Aria Bass - father:
With children, aren't there a hundred thousand aggravations!
Whatever I, all the time and every day, tell my daughter Liesgen, slides on by with no effect.
3. Recitative B & S - father and Liesgen:
Schlendrian: You naughty child, you wild girl, ah! When will I achieve my goal: get rid of the coffee for my sake!
Liesgen: Father sir, but do not be so harsh! If I couldn't, three times a day, be allowed to drink
my little cup of coffee, in my anguish I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat.
4. Aria Soprano - Liegen:
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand kisses, milder than muscatel wine.
Coffee, I have to have coffee, and, if someone wants to pamper me, ah, then fill up my coffee again!
5. Recitative B S
Schlendrian: If you don't give up coffee for me, you won't go to any wedding parties, or even go out for walks.
Liesgen: Okay then! Only leave my coffee alone!
Schlendrian: Now I've got the little monkey! I will buy you no whalebone dress of the latest fashion.
Liesgen: I can easily put up with that.
Schlendrian: You may not go to the window and watch anyone passing by!
Liesgen: This too; but be merciful and let my coffee stay!
Schlendrian: You'll also not receive from my hand, a silver or gold ribbon for your bonnet!
Liesgen: Sure, sure! Just leave me my pleasure!
Schlendrian: You naughty Liesgen, you grant all of that to me?
7. Recitative B S
Schlendrian: Now do what your father says!
Liesgen: In everything but coffee.
Schlendrian: All right then! So you will have to content yourself with never having a husband.
Liesgen: Ah yes! Father, a husband!
Schlendrian: I swear that it will never happen.
Liesgen: Until I give up coffee? All right! Coffee, lie there now forever!
Father sir, listen, I won't drink none.
Schlendrian: So finally you'll get one!
8. Aria S
Liesgen: Even today, dear father, make it happen! Ah, a husband! Indeed, this will suit me well!
If it would only happen soon, that at last, instead of coffee, before I even go to bed, I might gain a sturdy lover!
9. Recitative T (Cafe owner):
Now old Schlendrian goes and seeks How he, for his daughter Liesgen, might soon acquire a husband;
but Liesgen secretly spreads the word: no suitor comes in my house
unless he has promised to me himself and has it also inserted into the marriage contract,
that I shall be permitted to brew coffee whenever I want.
10. Chorus (Trio) S T B (all three):
Cats do not give up mousing, girls remain coffee-sisters.
The mother adores her coffee-habit, and grandma also drank it,
so who can blame the daughters!
Schlendrian: So finally you'll get one!
8. Aria S
Liesgen: Even today, dear father, make it happen! Ah, a husband! Indeed, this will suit me well!
If it would only happen soon, that at last, instead of coffee, before I even go to bed, I might gain a sturdy lover!
9. Recitative T (Cafe owner):
Now old Schlendrian goes and seeks How he, for his daughter Liesgen, might soon acquire a husband;
but Liesgen secretly spreads the word: no suitor comes in my house
unless he has promised to me himself and has it also inserted into the marriage contract,
that I shall be permitted to brew coffee whenever I want.
10. Chorus (Trio) S T B (all three):
Cats do not give up mousing, girls remain coffee-sisters.
The mother adores her coffee-habit, and grandma also drank it,
so who can blame the daughters!
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