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Ernani

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Infelice!... e tu credevi
 (Sung text for setting by G. Verdi)
 Matches base text

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
(Infelice!... e tu credevi    
sì bel giglio immacolato!...
Del tuo crine sulle nevi
piomba invece il disonor.
Ah, perché l'etade in seno
giovin core m'ha serbato!
Mi dovevan gli anni almeno
far di gelo ancora il cor.)

Text Authorship:

  • by Francesco Maria Piave (1810 - 1876) [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 Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), 1844, first performed 1844
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Tutto sprezzo, che d'Ernani
 (Sung text for setting by G. Verdi)
 Matches base text

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Sorta è la notte, e Silva non ritorna!...  
Ah, non tornasse ei più!...
Questo odiato veglio,
che quale immondo spettro ognor m'insegue
col favellar d'amore,
più sempre Ernani mi configge in core.

Ernani!... Ernani, involami    
all'aborrito amplesso.
Fuggiam... se teco vivere
mi sia d'amor concesso,
per antri e lande inospite
ti seguirà il mio piè.
Un Eden di delizia
saran quegli antri a me.

(Tutto sprezzo, che d'Ernani  
non favella a questo core,
non v'ha gemma che in amore
possa l'odio tramutar.
Vola, o tempo, e presto reca
di mia fuga il lieto istante,
vola, o tempo, al core amante
è supplizio l'indugiar.)

Text Authorship:

  • by Francesco Maria Piave (1810 - 1876) [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 Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), 1844, first performed 1844
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 140
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