Excerpt from opera 'Niobe Regina di Tebe"
Music by Agostino Steffani (1653--1728)
Libretto by Luigi Orlandi, after Ovid's Metamorphoses
Boston Early music festival 2011
Lyrics:
"Come Padre, e come Dio,
Sommo Giove hor mi proteggi
E l'Ardir d'un empio, e rio,
Col tuo Fulmine correggi.
Come Padre, &c.
Mà che miro? che scorgo? i marmi, i sassi
Animati al mio Canto,
Forman di Tebe i Muri: oh del gran Nume
Onnipotente forza,
Se un moto sol del tuo voler pre!sso
Anima i sassi, e volve in Ciel l'Abisso."
English translation:
"As a Father, and as God,
Great Jove, now protect me,
And with your Thunderbolts, punish
The Daring of a wicked and evil one.
As a father, etc.
But what do I see? What do I perceive? Themarble, the stones,
Animated by my Song
Form theWalls of Thebes: oh Omnipotent strength
Of the great God,
If a movement of your will appoints
A soul to stones, Hell has turned into Heaven."
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