Text & Translation
Mio ben ricordati
Italian source:
Pietro Metastasio
Se avvien, ch’io mora:
Quanto quest’ anima
Fedel t’amò.
E se pur amano
Le fredde ceneri:
Nell’ urna ancora
T’adorerò.
Remember, beloved
English translation ©
Richard Wigmore
if it should happen that I die,
how this faithful soul
loved you.
And if cold ashes
can love
in the urn,
I shall shall love you.
Mio ben ricordati
Italian source:
Pietro Metastasio
Remember, beloved
English source:
Richard Wigmore
Mio ben ricordati,
Remember, beloved,
Se avvien, ch’io mora:
if it should happen that I die,
Quanto quest’ anima
how this faithful soul
Fedel t’amò.
loved you.
E se pur amano
And if cold ashes
Le fredde ceneri:
can love
Nell’ urna ancora
in the urn,
T’adorerò.
I shall shall love you.
Composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He…
Poet
Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi,…