Catone in Utica

Soffre talor del vento
i primi insulti il mare
né a cento legni e cento
che van per l’onde chiare
intorbida il sentier.
 
Ma poi se il vento abonda
il mar s’inalza e freme
e colle navi affonda
tutta la ricca speme
dell’avido nocchier.

Authorship

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Catone in Utica, first published 1728 [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 by Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744), published 1728
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Ombra cara, ombra adorata
Se mi ascolti e se qui sei,
Tu saprai da pensier miei,
Quanto sia mia fedeltà.

Se non resta vendicata
La tua morte e il mio dolore,
col svenar quel traditore;
Pace il cor mai non avrà.

Authorship

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Catone in Utica [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 by Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744)
Researcher for this text: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]