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Tolomeo (Ptolemy)

Opera by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)

Non lo diro col Labbro
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Non lo dirò col labbro
Che tanto ardir non ha;
Forse con le faville
Dell'avide pupille,
Per dir come tutt'ardo,
Lo sguardo parlerà.

Text Authorship:

  • by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652 - 1728) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), HWV 25, Alessandro's cavatina, from Act I, note: melody also used by Somervell in Silent Worship
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Che più si tarda omai
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Recitativo
Che più si tarda omai,
oh neghittose labbra,
a dissetar con queste poche stille
che Elisa ti presenta,
l’empio furor della tua sorte irata ?
Si beva!

Accompagnato
Inumano fratel, barbara madre,
ingiusto Araspe, dispietata Elisa,
Numi, o furie del Ciel, 
cielo nemico,
implacabile destin, tiranna sorte :
tutti v’invito
a gustare il piacer della mia morte.
Ma tu, consorte amata, 
non pianger, no, mentre che lieto spiro ;
basta che ad incontrare l’anima mia,
quando uscirà dal sen, mandi un sospiro.

Aria di Tolomeo
Stille amare, già vi sento
Tutte in seno, la morte chiamar;
già vi sento smorzare il tormento
già vi sento tornarmi a bear.

Text Authorship:

  • by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730) [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):

Set by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), HWV 25 (1728)

Note provided by Laura Prichard for line 1: "omai" is an archaic, literary form of “oggi” [today/now] + mai [never/ever]


Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 129
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