O cessate di piagarmi (Alessandro Scarlatti)

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• (Posted 2008-07-31)  CPDL #17760: 

Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-31).  Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 88 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - Lyrics in both Italian and English - English lyrics by Dr. Theodore Baker - Edition in E Minor.

General Information

Title: O cessate di piagarmi
Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti
Lyricist: Nicolò Minato

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: Italian
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1885 in Anthology of Italian song, Book 1, no. 5
Description: The aria "O cessate di piagarmi" is from an aria in the opera "Pompeo".

External websites:

• Entry at Wikipedia for this composer.
• Parisotti's Anthology is available here.
• Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song.
• Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• Portuguese translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• German translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=36861 English lyrics for this aria are at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page". ]

Original text and translations

Italian text O cessate di piagarmi, O lasciatemi morir! Luc’ ingrate, Dispietate, Più del gelo e più del marmi Fredde e sorde a’ miei martir. Più d'un angue, più d'un aspe crudi e sordi a' miei sospir, [occhi alteri, ciechi e fieri,]1 voi potete risanarmi, e godete al mio languir.

English translation Sesto: O stop wounding me, O leave me to die! eyes so ungrateful, merciless, more than ice and more than marble cold and deaf to my sufferings! and you enjoy my fainting. More than a snake, more than an asp, cruel and unhearing to my sighs, eyes so proud, unseeing and ferocious, you have power to make me well again, and you enjoy my fainting.