Nulla impresa per huom
Opera details:
Opera title: | L' Orfeo |
Composer: | Claudio Monteverdi |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | L' Orfeo Synopsis |
Libretto: | L' Orfeo Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Spiriti infernali |
Voice(s): | Tenor / Bass |
Act: | 3.10 |
| Previous scene: | Ei dorme |
| Next scene: | Signor quell'infelice |
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
CORO di SPIRITINulla impresa per uom si tenta invano,
Né contro a lui più sa Natura armarse,
Ei de l'instabil piano
Arò gl'ondosi campi e 'I seme sparse
Di sue fatiche, ond'aurea messe accolse.
Quinci, perché memoria
Vivesse di sua gloria,
La Fama a dir di lui sua lingua sciolse,
Ch'ei pose freno al mar con fragil legno,
Che sprezzò d'Austro e d'Aquilon lo sdegno.
English Libretto or Translation:
CHORUS of SPIRITSNo enterprise by man is undertaken in vain,
nor can Nature further defend herself against him.
He has ploughed the waving fields
of the uneven plain and scattered the seed
of his labour, whence he has reaped golden harvests.
Wherefore, so that the memory
of his glory shall live,
Fame has loosened her tongue to speak of him
who tamed the sea with fragile barque
and mocked the fury of the winds of the north and south.
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