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

La speranza
 (Sung text for setting by A. Häser)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
So che un sogno è la speranza,
so che spesso il ver non dice;
ma pietosa ingannatrice
consolando almen mi va.
 
Fra quei sogni il core ha pace
e capace almen si rende
di sue barbare vicende
a soffrir la crudeltà.

Composition:

    Set to music by August Ferdinand Häser (1779 - 1844), "La speranza", also set in German (Deutsch)

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Il ruggiero ovvero L'eroica gratitudine

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-19
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