Placido zeffiretto, Se trovi il caro oggetto Digli che sei sospiro; Ma non gli dir di chi. Limpido ruscelletto, Se [mai t' incontri in lei, Dille]1 che pianto sei Ma non [le]2 dir qual ciglio Crescer ti fè cosi.
Dodici Ariette
by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812)
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English — 12 Ariette (Laura Prichard)
1. Placido zefiretto [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 16. Amor timido
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Placid little breeze", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume Unico, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e Compagni, 1832, page 723.
1 Righini: "trovi il caro oggetto / Digli"2 Righini: "gli"
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2. Pur nel sonno almen talora [sung text not yet checked]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Pur nel sonno almen talora vien colei, che m'innamora, le mie pene a consolar. Rendi Amor, se giusto sei, più veraci i sogni miei, o non farmi risvegliar.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Il sogno
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Note: at the end of Glinka's setting, "a consolar" is repeated twice.
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3. Io lo so [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Io lo so, che il bel sembiante Un istante, oh Dio! mirai, E mai più da quell'istante [Non]1 lasciai di sospirar. Io lo so; lo sanno queste Valli ombrose, erme foreste [Che han]2 da me quel nome amato Imparato a replicar.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Excerpted from "Il consiglio", Cantata VI.
1 Righini, Kuhlau: "No"
2 Kuhlau: "che'an"
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4. Or che il cielo a me ti rende [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
[ ... ]
Aria
Or che il [ciel]1 a me ti rende,
Cara parte del mio cor,
La mia gioia, ah, non comprende
Chi non sa che cosa è amor!
Sono all'alma un grato oggetto
Le [sue]2 barbare vicende,
[Ed in sen]3 dolce discende
La memoria del dolor.
Text Authorship:
- by Giovanni de Gamerra (1743 - 1803)
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- ENG English (Bertrand Meyer) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Righini: "cielo"
2 Righini: "mie"
3 Righini: "E nel sen"
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5. Affetti, non turbate [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Affetti, non turbate la pace all'alma mia, Sia vostra scelta, o sia l'oprar necessità. Perchè rei vi credete se liberi non siete? Perchè non vi cangiate se avete libertà?
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Issipile
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Affetti, don’t disturb the peace of my soul", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
6. D' un genio, m' accende [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
D'un genio che m'accende, Tu vuoi ragion da me? Non ha ragione amore, O, se ragione intende, Subito amor non è. Un amoroso foco Non può spiegarsi mai. Dì che lo sente poco Chi ne ragiona assai, Chi ti sa dir perchè.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1729, appears in Semiramide
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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 123.
The text appears in Semiramide, atto III, scena VII, Aria di Tamiri.
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7. Sol che un [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Sol che un istante io miri, la bella mia nemica, la dolce fiamma antica, sento svegliarmi in sen; ritorno a miei sospiri, d'amor per lei mi moro; il mio destino adoro negli occhi del mio ben.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 15. Il primo amore
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
8. Aure amiche, ah! non spirate [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Aure amiche, ah! non spirate Per pietà d’Irene amante; Care piante, ah! non tornate Così presto a germogliar. Ogni fior che si colori, Ogni zeffiro che spiri, Quanti, oh Dio! quanti sospiri Al mio core ha da costar!
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Friendly breezes, ah! don’t blow", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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9. Mi lagnerò tacendo [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Mi lagnerò tacendo [Del mio destino avaro]1 Ma ch'io non t'ami, o cara, Non lo sperar da me. [Crudele]2, [in che t'offendo]3 [Se resta a questo petto Il misero diletto Di sospirar per te?]4
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Siroe, re di Persia, Act II, Scene 1 (Laodice), first published 1726
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- ENG English (Johann Gaitzsch) , "The reproach", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne) , "Le reproche", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
- GER German (Deutsch) (G. Friedrich) , "Der Vorwurf", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
1 Rossini: "della mia sorte amara, ah!"; Mozart: "Della mia sorte avara"
2 Mozart, Rossini: "Crudel"
3 Rossini: "in che t'offesi" or "perchè fin'ora"
4 Rossini: "farmi penar così? /Crudel! Non lo sperar da me."
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10. Vorrei di te fidarmi [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Vorrei di te fidarmi ma per usanza antica inteso ad ingannarmi io ti conosco amor. Se t'accarezzo amica tu mi prepari un laccio; se ti raccolgo in braccio, tu mi ferisci il cor.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in L'asilo d'amore
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Research team for this page: Barbara Miller , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]11. T'intendo sì, mio cor [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
T'intendo, sì, mio cor, Con tanto palpitar! So che ti vuoi lagnar, Che amante sei. Ah! taci il tuo dolor, Ah! soffri il tuo martir Tacilo, tacilo e non tradir L'affetti miei, l'affetti1 miei!
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
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- ENG English (Linda Godry) , "I hear you , oh my heart", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Uri Liebrecht) , "I hear you well, my heart", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "I hear you, yes, my heart", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , "Ich verstehe/höre dich mein Herz", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "Te entiendo, si, corazón mío", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 sometimes "gli affetti"
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12. Se amor l’abbandona [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Se amor l’abbandona ogn’alma si lagna, se amor l'accompagna, contenta non è; di chi vi dolete se viver felici né meco sapete, né senza di me?
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in L'asilo d'amore
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "If love departs", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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