Ho perduto il mio tesoro | Ho perduto il mio tesoro

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Ho perduto il mio tesoro

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Ho perduto il mio tesoro,
Ogni speme ho già smarrita:
Odio il giorno, odio la vita,
Più non splende il Sol per me.

M'ha rapito il fato avaro
Quanto al mondo a me fu caro:
Mi lasciò colei che adoro,
Altro ben per me non v'è.

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• M. Glinka

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Confirmed with Opere del signor Ab. Pietro Metastasio, Bd. 9, Venezia, 1795.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Il ruggiero ovvero L'eroica gratitudine, Act 3, Scene 5 [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):

by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Ho perduto il mio tesoro" [ duet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Ho perduto il mio tesoro" [sung text checked 1 time]
by August Ferdinand Häser (1779 - 1844), "Amor sprezzato", also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), adapted by Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff (1799 - 1851) , "Die Verlassene" ; composed by Carl Banck.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by August Ferdinand Häser.
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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 47