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

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Va’ tra le selve ircane
barbaro genitore;
fiera di te peggiore,
mostro peggior non v’è.
 
Quanto di reo produce
l’Africa al sol vicina,
l’inospita marina,
tutto s’aduna in te.

Composition:

    Set to music by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Va tra le selve ircane", HelN 78 no. 19 (1730), first performed 1730 [ 2 horns, 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 19

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-21
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