by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Disse il ver? parlò per gioco?
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
Disse il ver? parlò per gioco? Mi confondo a' detti sui e comincio a poco a poco di me stesso a dubitar. Pianger fanno i pianti altrui, sospirar gli altrui sospiri; ben potrian gli altrui deliri insegnarmi a delirar.
Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Achille in Sciro [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), "Disse il ver? parlò per gioco?", 1736, from the opera Achille in Sciro [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Disse il ver? parlò per gioco?", 2016, copyright © 2016. [tenor voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Did she speak the truth? Was she joking?", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-27
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