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

Già la notte s'avvicina
 (Sung text for setting by N. Jommelli)
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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.

Lascia una volta, o Nice,
Lascia le tue capanne. Unico albergo
Non è già del piacere
La selvaggia dimora;
Hanno quest'onde i lor diletti ancora.
Qui, se spiega la notte il fosco velo,
Nel mare emulo al cielo
Più lucide, più belle
Moltiplicar le stelle,
E per l'onda vedrai gelida e bruna
Rompere i raggi e scintillar la luna.
Il giorno al suon d'una ritorta conca,
Che nulla cede alle incerate avene,
Se non vuoi le mie pene,
Di Teti, e Galatea, di Glauce, e Dori
Ti canterò gli amori.
Tu dal mar scorgerai sul vicin prato
Pascer le molli erbette
Le tue care agnellette,
Non offese dal sol fra ramo e ramo:
E con la canna e l'amo
I pesci intanto insidiar potrai;
E sarà la mia Nice
Pastorella in un punto e pescatrice.

    Non più fra' sassi algosi
    Staranno i pesci ascosi;
    Tutti per l'onda amara,
    Tutti verranno a gara
    Fra' lacci del mio ben.

    E l'umidette figlie
    De' tremuli cristalli
    Di pallide conchiglie,
    Di lucidi coralli
    Le colmeranno il sen.

Composition:

    Set to music by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Già la notte s'avvicina", subtitle: "La pesca", INJ 27 [ soprano and strings ]

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

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