Signore, ascolta!

The Italian lyrics were written by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

It is sung by Liù (a slave girl) to Prince Calaf, with whom she is secretly in love.

Liù sings this aria begging Calaf not to risk his life for his love to a beautiful but cold Princess Turandot, who set a condition that any man who wishes to marry her must first answer her three riddles, and if he fails, he will be beheaded.

Ma se il tuo destino, doman, sarà deciso, noi morrem sulla strada dell'esilio.

Ei perderà suo figlio... io l'ombra d'un sorriso!