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

Arresta il passo
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE
Gioiada:
Arresta il passo, empia figlia d'Acabbo !
Ah, degli abissi pendi già sulla sponda,
la vendetta di Dio già ti circonda!

Atalia:
Ahimè! Qual forza ignota anima
quelle voci! Io tremo, io sento
tutto inondarmi il seno di gelido sudor.
Fuggasi!
Ah quale... Qual è la via?
Chi me l'addita?
O Dio! Che ascoltai? Che m'avvenne?
Ove son' io?

Aria (Atalia)
Nell' orror della tempesta
il timor mi veggo accanto;
nè so quanto ancor mi resta
di dolente a paventar.
Ove volgo il mesto ciglio
Ah purtroppo il mio periglio
vado misera a incontrar.
Nell' orror ... (parta)

Composition:

    Set to music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Arresta il passo", HWV. 83

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) (David Le Marrec) , "Suspends tes pas", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Le Marrec

This text was added to the website: 2008-02-19
Line count: 22
Word count: 95

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