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'Se il timore il ver mi dice' (Deidamia)

Aria from the opera 'Deidamia', HWV 42

Libretto: Paolo Rolli (1687-1765)

Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

First performance: 10 January 1741, in London (Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre)
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Deidamia: Simone Kermes, soprano

Il Complesso Barocco,
conducted by Alan Curtis

Recorded in 2002
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Se il timore il ver mi dice,
infelice,
abbandonata,
sorte ingrata!
io morirò.

Ma diletta a mia costanza,
la speranza
a dir mi viene
che il mio bene
io placherò.
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Translation (by John Ostendorf and Peter Castaldi):

Were these fears to prove true,
then I, miserable
and abandoned,
would die
of my pitiless fate.

But hope still comes,
delightful to my soul,
hope that
I can assuage
my dear one's anger.
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Marc D.