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La donna è mobile (The woman is fickle) is the Duke of Mantua's canzone from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851). The inherent irony is that it is the callous playboy Duke himself who is mobile ("inconstant"). A reprise is heard off-stage at the end of the act.
And for its theme song, actually it has the same name which is also called La donna è mobile (The woman is fickle).
The almost comical-sounding theme of La donna è mobile (The woman is fickle) is introduced immediately, and runs as illustrated (transposed from the original key of B major). The theme is repeated several times in the approximately two minutes it takes to perform the aria, but with the important—and obvious—omission of the last bar. This has the effect of driving the music forward as it creates the impression of being incomplete and unresolved, which it is, ending not on the tonic or dominant but on the submediant. Once the Duke has finished singing, however, the theme is once again repeated; but this time including the last, and conclusive, bar and finally resolving to the tonic. The song is strophic in form with an orchestral
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The Lyrics of La donna è mobile (The woman is fickle):
Woman is flighty.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes in voice
and in thought.
Always a lovely,
pretty face,
in tears or in laughter,
it's untrue.
Refrain
Woman is flighty.
like a feather in the wind,
she changes in voice
and in thought!
Always miserable
is he who trusts her,
he who confides in her
his unwary heart!
Yet one never feels
fully happy
who from that bosom
does not drink love!
Refrain
Woman is flighty.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words,
and her thoughts!
