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Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL (1685-1759)
'Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori' (Polifemo)
Aria from the serenata 'Aci, Galatea e Polifemo', HWV 72 (No. 12)
Text: Nicola Giuvo (1680-1748)
First performance: 19 July 1708 in Naples (Palace of the Duke of Alvito, Chiaia)

Polifemo: Jérôme Correas, bass-baritone
Le Concert d'Astrée,
conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm
Concert: 12 June 2003 in Caen (Théâtre)

The score featured in this video is the Chrysander edition (Leipzig, 1892). I have divided all the systems in two and added clefs to the second halves.
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Italian text:

POLIFEMO
Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori
farfalla confusa
già spenta la face
non sa mai goder.

Così fra timori
quest'alma delusa
non trova mai pace
né spera piacer.
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English translation (by Avril Bardoni):

POLYPHEMUS
In darkness and fear
a bewildered moth,
the lamp now extinguished,
can play no more.

So, beset by fears,
my deluded soul
will never find peace
nor can hope for pleasure.
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Marc D.