Only in my sleep (at least sometimes)

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

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Pur nel sonno

(Sung text for setting by M. Glinka)

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Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Pur nel sonno almen talora
vien colei, che m'innamora,
le mie pene a consolar.
Pur nel sonno almen talora
vien colei, che m'innamora,
le mie pene a consolar.
Rendi Amor, se giusto sei,
più veraci i sogni miei,
o non farmi risvegliar.
Pur nel sonno almen talora
vien colei, che m'innamora,
le mie pene a consolar.
Pur nel sonno almen talora
vien colei, che m'innamora,
le mie pene a consolar.
 ...

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-3,1-3,4-6,1-3,1-3 of the original text.

Note: at the end of Glinka's setting, "a consolar" is repeated twice.

Composition:

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Russian (Русский)

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Il sogno

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ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Only in my sleep (at least sometimes)

(Sung text translation for setting by M. Glinka)

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Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Only in my sleep (at least sometimes)
comes the beloved
to console my pain.
Only in my sleep (at least sometimes)
comes the beloved
to console my pain.
Grant, love, if you are just,
more truth to my dreams
or don’t awaken me.
Only in my sleep (at least sometimes)
comes the beloved
to console my pain.
Only in my sleep (at least sometimes)
comes the beloved
to console my pain.
 ...

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Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-3,1-3,4-6,1-3,1-3 of the original text.

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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-26
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