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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Che fa il mio bene?

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Che fa il mio bene?
Perché non viene?
Veder mi vuole
languir così?
 
Oggi è pur lento
nel corso il sole!
Ogni momento
mi sembra un dì.

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Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Adriano in Siria [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 fa il mio bene?", 1732, first performed 1732, from the opera Adriano in Siria [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "What is my love doing?", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Que fait mon bien-aimé ?", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-06-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 27

What is my love doing?

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

What is my love doing?
Why does he not come?
Does he wish to see me languish here?

The sun's course is so slow,
and every moment seems a whole day.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Adriano in Siria
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This text was added to the website: 2019-02-11
Line count: 5
Word count: 31