Like ice in every vein

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

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Gelido in ogni vena

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Gelido in ogni vena
 Scorrer mi sento il sangue.
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M' ingombra di terror.
 
E per maggior mia pena
[Veggio]¹ che fui crudele
A un'anima fedele,
A un innocente cor.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Händel • L. Vinci • A. Vivaldi

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Confirmed with Poesie del Signor Abbate Pietro Metastasio, Poeta e Bibliotecario. Cesareo, Tome II, Londra (London), 1774, pages 205-206.

¹ Händel, Vinci, Vivaldi: "vedo"

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1726, appears in Siroe, re di Persia [author's text checked 1 time 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), "Gelido in ogni vena", HWV 24 (1728), first performed 1728 [ strings, bass voice, and continuo ], from opera Siroe, re di Persia [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Gelido in ogni vena", 1726, first performed 1726 [ strings and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Gelido in ogni vena", RV 711 (1727) [ counter-tenor and instrumental ensemble ], from opera Farnace [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Like ice in every vein

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Like ice in every vein,
I feel my blood flow, 
the shade of my lifeless son
falls over me; I’m terrorized.

And worse than that pain,
I see that I was cruel
to an innocent soul,
to the heart of my heart.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1726, appears in Siroe, re di Persia
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This text was added to the website: 2020-05-27
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Word count: 42