Translation Trashbin - 2. Amor, pietoso Amore

oh this is wonderful AC ... i love it

13 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

oh this is wonderful AC ... i love it

Thank you, Tim. It is ready for the stage, and I'd love to see it up there (but that would mean I'd have to do the rest of the opera too... Oh, well ---- maybe ) 

Oh, how perfectly this captures the Italian sensibility of this era. Your translation had me itching to pull my Forty Italian Songs for Medium Low Voice off the shelf. This is quite wonderful.

i am so glad i stumbled across this site! i've met great people and friends. i get to read and enjoy things that i never would never been exposed to. thank you AC! (and the rest of you)

2 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

Oh, how perfectly this captures the Italian sensibility of this era. Your translation had me itching to pull my Forty Italian Songs for Medium Low Voice off the shelf. This is quite wonderful.

Thanks, Parker. That's wonderful to hear, and I hope the book made it down

1 hour ago, mogwhy said:

i am so glad i stumbled across this site! i've met great people and friends. i get to read and enjoy things that i never would never been exposed to. thank you AC! (and the rest of you)

Thanks, Moggy. I'm happy to be here too

This was beautiful AC. Knowing Italian from my house growing up, lovely translation.

14 hours ago, BlindAmbition said:

This was beautiful AC. Knowing Italian from my house growing up, lovely translation.

Thank you, JP! I did this a couple years ago, and remember it being a fun puzzle to solve, that is, fitting the words and meaning to the music.

Thanks again

This is really great. I especially like what you made of the first line: the double meaning of Amor seems to work better in Italian, so you clarify.

No rhyme in your translation but you keep it close to the original and you generally keep the rhythm. Complimenti!

56 minutes ago, Zenobia said:

This is really great. I especially like what you made of the first line: the double meaning of Amor seems to work better in Italian, so you clarify.

No rhyme in your translation but you keep it close to the original and you generally keep the rhythm. Complimenti!

Thanks for reading and commenting, Zenobia. This is one of the great rondos, and the neurosurgery Salieri does with the text deserves as precise a handling as can be rendered. I'm glad you like it

3 hours ago, AC Benus said:

Thanks for reading and commenting, Zenobia. This is one of the great rondos, and the neurosurgery Salieri does with the text deserves as precise a handling as can be rendered. I'm glad you like it

 

Not sure if the "laugh" button could be misunderstood, so just to be clear: "doing neurosurgery with the text" is just a very  idiom.