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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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View original text (without footnotes)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)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 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), "Ch'io mai vi possa", 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 text: 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.
Line count: 12
Word count: 35
That I will ever be able to stop loving you No, don't believe it, dear eyes! Not even to joke would I deceive you about this. You alone are my sparks, and you will be, dear eyes, my beautiful fire as long as I live, ah!
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © by Christie Turnage Turner, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) 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
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 46