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

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ti sento, sospiri,
Ti lagni d'amore:
Ma soffri, mio core,
Ma impara a tacer;
Che cento martiri
Compensa un piacer.
Note (courtesy Laura Prichard): This work comes from a group of brief, single-stanza poems (Strofe per musica da cantarsi a canone) that Metastasio wrote and set to music in the form of vocal canons. Donizetti’s autograph manuscript is titled Romanza (Paris, Ms. 4180).

Composition:

    Set to music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Ti sento, sospiri", alternate title: "I sospiri" [ duet ]

Text Authorship:

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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