by Niccolò Minato (1630 - 1698)
Ombra mai fu
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Ombra mai fu di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave più.
Authorship:
- by Niccolò Minato (1630 - 1698) [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 Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670 - 1747), "Ombra mai fu" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pier Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676), "Ombra mai fu" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Ombra mai fu", HWV 40, from opera Serse (Xerxes) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , "Never was shade", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Nathan Haskell Dole)
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) [singable] (Shula Keller) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-04-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 10