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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Digli ch'io son fedele

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Digli ch'io son fedele.
Ch'è il mio tesoro,
Che m'ami, ch'io l'adoro,
Che non disperi ancor.

Digli, che la mia stella
Spero placar col pianto,
Che lo consoli intanto
L'immagine di quella
Che vive nel suo cor.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Digli ch'io son fedele", HWV 28, first performed 1731, from opera Poro, re dell'Indie [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686 - 1768), "Digli ch'io son fedele", first performed 1731 [ strings and soprano voice ], from opera Poro [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Tell him that I am faithful", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Tell him that I am faithful

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Tell him that I am faithful,
that he is my treasure,
that I love him and that he should love me,
that he should not despair any further.

Tell him that I hope to placate
with weeping the stars of my fortune,
and that he should let the image
of her who resides within his heart
console him in the meantime.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-31
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Word count: 61