Vieni, la barca è pronta,
Lieve un’auretta spira,
Tutto d’amor sospira,
Il mar, la terra, il ciel.

Vedi, l’argentea luna
Splende agli amanti, amica,
E sembra che ti dica:
“Corri alla tua fedel!"

Deh! vien, garzon gentile,
Ch’io nel tuo sen m’infonda,
E rassomgli all’onda
Che bacia il Cielo e muor.

Deh! quanti flutti ha il mare
Io tanti baci avessi;
Vorrei lasciar con essi
Sulle tue labbra il cor.

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Note (courtesy Laura Prichard): This song is the first in the printed collection Matinée musicale, dedicated to Queen Victoria of England, who was a high lyric soprano (Giraud, Naples, 1841). Late nineteenth-century printings add the title “La Gondoliera: barcarola” (The gondolier girl: baracarolle), but Donizetti rarely worked with Venetian motifs, so this may be a publisher’s error or addition.

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "La gondoliera" [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2016-04-14
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