by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation Singable translation by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (1784 - 1852)
Che non mi disse un dì!
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
Che non mi disse un dì! Quai numi non giurò! E come, oh Dio! si può, come si può così mancar di fede? Tutto per lui perdei; oggi lui perdo ancor. Poveri affetti miei! Questa mi rendi, Amor, [questa]1 mercede?
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Spontini: "grata"
Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Olimpiade, Act 2, Scene 4 [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 Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), "Che non mi disse un dì?", from the opera L'Olimpiade [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Che non mi disse un dì!", published 1844, from Il sibillo [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774 - 1851), "Che non mi disse un dì!", subtitle: "Arietta", published 1837 [voice and piano], Schlesinger, Album. Neue Original Compositionen für Gesang und Piano [...] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "What has he not said to me once upon a time?", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach)
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
Text added to the website: 2008-05-01 00:00:00
Last modified: 2017-04-23 18:48:17
Line count: 10
Word count: 40
So heilig war mein Schwur!
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)
So heilig war mein Schwur! den Himmel rief ich an! une wie, o Gott, wie kann heilifen Eid man nur so frech verhöhnen? Alles um ihn verscherzet! endlich auch er entfloh'n! O, wie es brennt und schmerzet! sind denn der Liebe Lohn glühende Tränen?
About the headline (FAQ)
Authorship
- Singable translation by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (1784 - 1852) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Olimpiade, Act 2, Scene 4
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
Text added to the website: 2017-04-24 00:00:00
Last modified: 2018-08-15 19:39:25
Line count: 10
Word count: 44