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S'è tuo piacer ch'io mora (Aminta)

Aria from the opera Atalanta, HWV 35

Libretto: anonymous, after Belisario Valeriani's La Caccia in Etolia (music by Fortunato Chelleri, 1715)

Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

First performance: 12 May 1736, in London (Covent Garden Theatre)
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Aminta: János Bándi, tenor

Capella Savaria,
conducted by Nicholas McGegan

Recorded in 1985
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This aria was adapted from the arietta 'Also ists geschrieben' in Carl Heinrich Graun's Große Passion.
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S'è tuo piacer ch'io mora,
vado a morir, Irene,
vado a piarceti sì.

Ricordati però
che morto ancor,
sarò fedel al tuo rigor,
che il cor m'incenerì.
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My translation:

If by dying I can please you,
I will die, Irene,
I will thus please you.

Remember, however,
that even dead,
I shall be faithful to your rigours,
which have burnt my heart to ashes.
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Marc D.