by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)
Oton, qual portentoso fulmine è questi?
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
Oton, qual portentoso fulmine è questi? Ah ingrato cesare, infidi amici, e cieli ingiusti: ma più del ciel, di Claudio, e degl'amici ingiusta, ingrata, ed infedel Popea. Io traditor? Io mostro d'infedeltà? Ahi cielo, ahi fato rio, evvi duolo maggior del duolo mio?
Authorship:
- by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Oton, qual portentoso fulmine è questi?", HWV 6 no. 26, first performed 1709, from opera Agrippina, no. 26 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Otho, what portentous lightning-bolt is this?", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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