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

Digli ch'io son fedele
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Digli ch'io son fedele.
Ch'è il mio tesoro,
Che m'ami, ch'io l'adoro,
Che non disperi ancor.

Digli, che la mia stella
Spero placar col pianto,
Che lo consoli intanto
L'immagine di quella
Che vive nel suo cor.

Composition:

    Set to music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Digli ch'io son fedele", HWV 28, first performed 1731, from opera Poro, re dell'Indie, no.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Tell him that I am faithful", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-04-21
Line count: 9
Word count: 37

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