Vengeance!
PAMINA
waking
Mother! Oh my mother ...
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
Where is the young man I sent you?
PAMINA
Tamino has withdrawn for ever from the world and people. He has gone over to Sarastro!
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
What do I hear? Sarastro has triumphed again. Do you see this blade? It has been sharpened for Sarastro, and you will kill him!
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
My heart is seething with hellish vengeance,
death and despair are blazing around me!
Unless Sarastro feels the pangs of death at your hands
you are no longer my daughter.
Forever disowned, forever abandoned,
forever destroyed may all ties of nature be,
unless Sarastro dies at your hands!
Hear! Gods of vengeance! Hear a mother's vow!
She gives Pamina the dagger and disappears.
PAMINA
holding the dagger
Am I to commit murder? - No, I cannot! - Gods, what am I to do?
MONOSTATOS
coming out of hiding
Put your trust in me!