Serati Musicali

Mira la bianca luna
ascosa d'un bel vel,
vieni alla selva bruna,
vieni, ci arride il ciel.
Vieni, vieni.

Vieni, là tra quell'ombra oscura
vieni, non far rumor,
vien, deh! vien, ti rassicura
non lo saprà che Amor.

Authorship:

• by Carlo Pepoli, Conte (1796 - 1881) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

• ENG English (Margaret Smythe) , "The serenade", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Johannes Becker) , "Die Serenade", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: David K. Smythe

    Già la notte s'avvicina:
    Vieni, o Nice, amato bene,
    Della placida marina
    Le fresch' aure a respirar.

    Non sa dir che sia diletto
    Chi non posa in queste arene,
    Or che un lento zeffiretto
    Dolcemente increspa il mar.

[ ... ]

Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 10. La pesca [author's text checked 1 time 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 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), stanzas 1-2 [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos and piano ]
View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 720.

¹ Porpora: "suoi"
² Porpora: "placide"
³ Porpora: "Glauco"
⁴ Porpora: "E tu vedrai dal mar"

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , David K. Smythe , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]