Qual farfalletta gira a quel lume,
È il mio Cupido, le belle piume
Ardendo và.

Quel brio m’alletta; perchè m’è fido,
La mia costanza ogn’altra avanza,
Cangiar non sà.

Anonymous libretto after Silvio Stampiglia

Composition:

Set to music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Qual farfalletta gira a quel lume", HWV 27 (1730), first performed 1730 [ soprano and orchestra ]

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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

• ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "As the little butterfly turns to the light", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-02-25
Line count: 6
Word count: 29