by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation Singable translation by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852 - 1935)
È prezzo leggiero
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
È prezzo leggiero d’un suddito il sangue, se all’indico impero conserva il suo re. O inganni felici, se al par de’ nemici restasse ingannato il fato da me!
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), "È prezzo leggiero", HWV 28 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "È prezzo leggiero", HWV 28, from opera Poro, re dell'Indie, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "È prezzo leggiero", 1729, first performed 1729 [ strings and tenor voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "The blood of a subject", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Nathan Haskell Dole)
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-04-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 28
The life of a vassl
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
The life of a vassl Were price all too trifling, If safe in his castle The great (Indian) King remained. More hapless were no man, If as by a foeman Thro' me all his glory In story were stain'd.
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Authorship:
- Singable translation by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852 - 1935) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-11-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 39