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Rodelinda

Opera by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)

L'empio rigor del fato
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
L'empio rigor del fato
vile non potrà farmi,
se misera mi fè;

E tu, crudo tiranno,
in van tenti placarmi,
se m'hai legato il piè.

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 19 (1725), first performed 1725
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Io già t'amai, ritrosa
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Io già t'amai, ritrosa,
sdegnasti esser mia sposa
sempre dicesti no.

Or ch'io son Re, non voglio
compagna nel mio soglio,
aver chi mi sprezzò.

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 19 (1725), first performed 1725
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Dove sei, amato bene
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Recitativo accompagnato
Pompe vane di morte! Menzogne di dolor,
che riserbate il mio volto e'l mio nome,
ed adulate del vincitor superbo il genio altiero:
voi dite, ch'io son morto; ma risponde il mio duol,
che non è vero. (legge l'iscrizione)
"Bertarido fu Re; da Grimoaldo vinto fuggì,
presso degli Unni giace. Abbia l'alma riposo, e'l cener pace."
Pace al cener mio? Astri tiranni!
Dunque fin ch'avrò vita, guerra avrò con gli stenti,
e con gli affanni.

Aria
Dove sei, amato bene!
Vieni, l'alma a consolar!

Sono oppresso da' tormenti
ed i crudeli miei lamenti
sol con te posso 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 19 (1725), first performed 1725
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Pastorello d'un povero armento
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Pastorello d'un povero armento  
pur dorme contento,
sotto l'ombra d'un faggio o d'alloro.

Io, d'un regno monarca fastoso,
non trovo riposo,
sotto l'ombra di porpora e d'oro.

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 19 (1725), first performed 1725 [ tenor, strings, and continuo ]
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Con rauco mormorio
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Con rauco mormorio 
piangono al pianto mio ruscelli e fonti.
E in tronchi e mesti accenti
fann'eco a miei lamenti; e gli antri e monti.

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 19 (1725), first performed 1725
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 197
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