by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Se tu la reggi al volo
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
Se tu la reggi al volo, su la Tarpea pendice l’aquila vincitrice sempre tornar vedrò; Breve sarà per lei tutto il cammin del sole, e allora i Regni miei col ciel dividerò.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio [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 Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787), "Se tu la reggi al volo", 1750, first performed 1750, from opera Ezio, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Se tu la reggi al volo", HWV 29, from opera Ezio, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Se tu la reggi al volo", 1755, first performed 1755 [ 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Se tu la reggi al volo", 1741, first performed 1741 [ 2 horns, 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "I shall always see the victorious eagle", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-24
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