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

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Che non mi disse un dì!
Quai numi non giurò!
E come, oh Dio! si può,
come si può così
mancar di fede?
Tutto per lui perdei;
oggi lui perdo ancor.
Poveri affetti miei!
Questa mi rendi, Amor,
questa mercede?

Composition:

    Set to music by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729 - 1774), "Che non mi disse un dì?", 1764, first performed 1764 [ 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ]

Text Authorship:

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "What has he not said to me once upon a time?", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach)


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-05-01
Line count: 10
Word count: 41