Farnace

Da quel ferro che ha svenato
il mio sposo sventurato,
imparai la crudeltà.
 
Nel mirare un figlio esangue
e bagnato del mio sangue
mi scordai della pietà

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 1730?) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Set by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711
Researcher for this page: Andrea Bellhouse

Ricordati che sei  
regina madre, e sposa,
che dell'onor gelosa
ti vuol la maestà.

Pria che soffrir la pena
d'una servil catena,
sì, sì questa tu déi
pietosa crudeltà.

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 1730?) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Set by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Combattono quest'alma  
la gloria, la pietà,
l'amor, la fedeltà.
Lo sposo, il figlio.

Lo sposo tradirò?
Il figlio ucciderò?
Ah che l'ingiusta palma
non so di chi sarà,
cieli consiglio!

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 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 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711 (1727), first performed 1727
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Se si nasconde  
tra verdi fronde
benché bambina
serpe insidiosa,
men velenosa
ella non è.

Nel pargoletto
tuo dolce oggetto
di quella serpe
temer si de'.

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 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 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711 (1727), first performed 1727
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Non trova mai riposo  
l'anima sconsolata
se persa nello sposo
ha la sua pace.

Or che in spavento mira
il fiero vostro cor
ripiglia il suo vigor
e il duolo tace.

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 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 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711 (1727), first performed 1727
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Coronata di gigli, e di rose  
con gl'amori ritorni la pace.

E fra mille facelle amorose
perda i lampi dell'odio la face.

Composition:

Set to music by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Coronata di gigli, e di rose", RV 711 (1727), first performed 1727, from opera Farnace

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 1730?)

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

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "May peace return, crowned", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Son vaghi gl'allori,  
che porge la gloria,
ma sono gl'amori
più vaghi al mio cor.

Io fui già guerriero
ed ebbi vittoria:
amante non spero
trionfar in amor.

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 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 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711 (1727), first performed 1727
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Mi sento nel petto  
un certo diletto
che nasce da speme
di sorte miglior;

deride l'altera,
ma l'anima amante
però non dispera
contento l'amor.

Text Authorship:

• by Antonio Maria Luchini (c1690 - 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 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), RV 711 (1727), first performed 1727
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Gelido in ogni vena
 Scorrer mi sento il sangue.
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M' ingombra di terror.
 
E per maggior mia pena
vedo che fui crudele
A un'anima fedele,
A un innocente cor.

Composition:

Set to music by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Gelido in ogni vena", RV 711 (1727) [ counter-tenor and instrumental ensemble ], from opera Farnace

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1726, appears in Siroe, re di Persia

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

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]