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L'Olimpiade

Opera by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)

. Mentre dormi, Amor fomenti
 (Sung text for setting by G. Pergolesi)
 Matches base text

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Mentre dormi, Amor fomenti
il piacer de' sonni tuoi
con l'idea del mio piacer.

Abbia il rio passi più lenti;
e sospenda i moti suoi
ogni zeffiro leggier.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade [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 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

. [No title]
 (Sung text for setting by G. Pergolesi)
 Matches base text

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Superbo di me stesso
andrò portando in fronte
quel caro nome impresso,
come mi sta nel cor.

Dirà la Grecia poi
che fur comuni a noi
l'opre, i pensier, gli affetti,
e al fine i nomi ancor.

Composition:

    Set to music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736), no title, 1735, first performed 1735 [ strings and soprano voice ], from opera L'Olimpiade, no.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) (Kendree Chen) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

3.
 (Sung text)

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Quel destrier che all’albergo è vicino
più veloce s’affretta nel corso;
non l’arresta l’angustia del morso,
non la voce che legge gli dà.
 
Tal quest’alma che piena è di speme
nulla teme, consiglio non sente;
e si forma una gioia presente
del pensiero che lieta saprà.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "A great warhorse, close to its lodgings", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

5.
 (Sung text)

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Del destin non vi lagnate,
se vi rese a noi soggette;
siete serve ma regnate
nella vostra servitù.
 
Forti noi, voi belle siete;
e vincete in ogni impresa,
quando vengono a contesa
la bellezza e la virtù.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Do not complain about destiny", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 148
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