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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Tra speme e timore

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Tra speme e timore  
mi palpita il core
né so ben ancora,
s'è gioia o dolor.

Spuntar la mia stella
già parmi più bella;
mi mostra l'aurora
del giorno il splendor.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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), "Tra speme e timore", HWV 34 no. 22 (1735), first performed 1735, from opera Alcina, no. 22 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Betwixt hope and fear", 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: 2019-11-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 31

Betwixt hope and fear

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Betwixt hope and fear,
my heart trembles.
I still don't know
if this is joy or pain.

My rising star
already appears more beautiful.
The dawn shows unto me
the coming splendor of the day.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 35