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Anna Bolena

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)

?. Ah! pensate che rivolti!
 (Sung text)

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Per questa fiamma indomita
alla virtù preposta,
per quegli amari spasimi,
per pianto che mi costa,
odi la mia preghiera.
Anna per me non pera;
innanzi al cielo, agli uomini,
rea non mi far di più.

Ah! pensate che rivolti
terra e cielo han gli occhi in voi;
che ogni core ha i falli suoi
per dovere altrui mercè.
La pietade Enrico ascolti,
se al rigore è spinto il Re.

Text Authorship:

  • by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865)

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Deh! non voler costringere
 (Sung text for setting by G. Donizetti)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Deh! non voler costringere  
a finta gioia il viso:
bella è la tua mestizia,
siccome il tuo sorriso.
Cinta di nubi ancora
bella è così l'aurora,
la luna malinconica
bella è nel suo pallor.

(Anna diviene più pensosa. Smeton prosegue con voce più animata)
 
Chi pensierosa e tacita
starti così ti mira,
ti crede ingenua vergine
che il primo amor sospira:
ed obliato il serto
onde è il tuo crin coperto,
teco sospira, e sembragli
esser quel primo amor.

Text Authorship:

  • by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865) [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), 1830, first performed 1830
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Ah! parea che per incanto
 (Sung text for setting by G. Donizetti)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Ah! parea che per incanto    
rispondessi al tuo soffrir:
ogni stilla del mio pianto
risvegliava un tuo sospir.
A tal vista il core audace
pien di speme e di desir,
ti scopria l'ardor vorace
che non oso altrui scoprir.

Text Authorship:

  • by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Set by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), 1830, first performed 1830
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Al dolce guidami
 (Sung text for setting by G. Donizetti)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Al dolce guidami    
castel natio,
ai verdi platani,
al quieto rio,
che i nostri mormora
sospiri ancor.
Colà, dimentico
de' corsi affanni,
un giorno rendimi
de' miei primi anni,
un giorno solo
del nostro amor.

Text Authorship:

  • by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865) [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), 1830, first performed 1830
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Coppia iniqua, l'estrema vendetta
 (Sung text for setting by G. Donizetti)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Coppia iniqua, l'estrema vendetta
non impreco in quest'ora tremenda;
nel sepolcro che aperto m'aspetta
col perdon sul labbro si scenda,
ei m'acquisti clemenza e favore
al cospetto d'un dio di pietà.

Text Authorship:

  • by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865) [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), 1830, first performed 1830
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 254
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