Ch'io mai vi possa 
Lasciar d'amare,
[No, nol]1 credete, 
Pupille care;
Nè men per gioco 
V'ingannerò.

Voi foste e siete 
Le mie faville,
E voi sarete, 
Care pupille,
Il mio bel foco 
Sin ch'io vivrò.

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Confirmed with Opere dell'abate Pietro Metastasio, Volume Quinto, Parte Seconda, Napoli (Naples) : Presso Luigi Chiurazzi, 1860, page 648.

¹ Weber: "Non lo" (overheard on a recording)

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Siroe, re di Persia, appears in Cantate, in 2. Il tabacco, in 1. Cantata I [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720 - 1795), "Ch'io mai vi possa lasciar d'amare", 1747-1753 [ voice, strings and double bass ], from 12 arie, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Ch'io mai vi possa", op. 40 (12 Canzonette Italiane) no. 11, P 184 no. 11, published 1813 [ voice and piano ], Munich: Falter et Figlio [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Ch'io mai vi possa lasciar d'amare", HWV 24 (1728), first performed 1728 [ violins, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Siroe, re di Persia [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "La promessa" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "La Dichiarazione" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825), no title, 1803 [ voice and piano ], from Divertimenti vocali, no. 10, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Ch'io mai vi possa lasciar d'amare", 2012, first performed 2012 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Carl Maria (Friedrich Ernst) von Weber (1786 - 1826), "Ch'io mai vi possa lasciar d'amare", op. 29 no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Christie Turnage Turner) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne) , "La promesse", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
• GER German (Deutsch) (G. Friedrich) , "Das Versprechen", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835

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

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 36