Go, fortunate rose | Go, fortunate rose

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Camilla Bugge

Vanne, o rosa fortunata

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG GER SPA

Vanne, o rosa fortunata,
a posar di Nice in petto
ed ognun sarà costretto
la tua sorte invidiar.

Oh, se in te potessi anch'io
transformarmi un sol momento;
non avria più bel contento
questo core a sospirar.

Ma tu inchini dispettosa,
bella rosa impallidita,
la tua fronte scolorita
dallo sdegno e dal dolor.

Bella rosa, è destinata
ad entrambi un'ugual sorte;
là trovar dobbiam la morte,
tu d'invidia ed io d'amor.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio [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 Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835), "Vanne, o rosa fortunata", from Sei Ariette, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Vanne, o rosa fortunata" [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Camilla Bugge) , "Go, fortunate rose", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Gehe, glückliche Rose", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , "Ve, rosa afortunada", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 71

Go, fortunate rose

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Go, fortunate rose,
to rest at Nice's breast
and all will be forced
to envy your fate.

Oh, if I could change myself
into you, but for a moment,
my heart would long
for no greater happiness.
 
But you bow your head with spite,
fair faded rose,
your brow loses all colour
from disdain and pain.
 
Lovely rose, it is destined,
that we meet the same fate:
we shall both meet death there,
you from envy and I of love.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
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This text was added to the website: 2004-10-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 80