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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Già la notte s'avvicina
 (Sung text for setting by I. Colbran)
 See original
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FIN FRE GER GER
    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.

 ... 

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

Composition:

    Set to music by Isabella Colbran (1785 - 1845), "Già la notte s'avvicina", stanzas 1-2

Text 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

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

  • ENG English (Margaret Smythe) , "Already night is approaching", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Déjà la nuit s'approche", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Johannes Becker) , "Schon naht die Nacht", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 42
Word count: 218

Yö lähestyy jo
 (Sung text translation for setting by I. Colbran)
 See original
Language: Finnish (Suomi)  after the Italian (Italiano) 
Yö lähestyy jo,
tule, Nice, oma rakastettuni,
tule rauhalliselle rannalle
hengittämään raikasta meri-ilmaa.

Sen ihanuutta ei voi ymmärtää kukaan,
joka ei ole käynyt tällaisella rannalla
silloin, kun leuto lounaistuuli
lempeästi saa merenpinnan väreilemään.

 ... 

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2009 by Erkki Pullinen, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.

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  • a text in Italian (Italiano) 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
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-17
Line count: 42
Word count: 33

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