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

Misera, dove son! ‑ Ah! Non son'io che parlo
 (Sung text for setting by W. Mozart)
 Matches base text
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE GER
Scena
 Misera, dove son! L'aure del Tebro
 Son queste ch'io respiro?
 Per le strade m'aggiro
 Di Tebe e d'Argo? O dalle greche sponde,
 Di tragedie feconde,
 Le domestiche furie
 Vennero a questi lidi,
 Della prole di Cadmo, e degli Atridi?
 Là, d'un monarca ingiusto
 L'ingrata crudeltà m'empie d'orrore,
 D'un padre traditore
 Qua la colpa m'agghiaccia:
 E lo sposo innocente ho sempre in faccia.
 Oh immagini funeste!
 Oh memorie! Oh martire!
 Ed io parlo, infelice, ed io respiro?

Aria
 Ah! non son'io che parlo,
 È il barbaro dolore
 Che mi divide il core,
 Che delirar mi fa.
 Non cura il ciel tiranno
 L'affanno, in cui mi vedo:
 Un fulmine gli chiedo,
 E un fulmine non ha.

Composition:

    Set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Misera, dove son! - Ah! Non son'io che parlo", K. 369 (1781) [ soprano, orchestra ]

Text Authorship:

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

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2004-07-12
Line count: 26
Word count: 115

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