Siam navi all'onde algenti

L'Olimpiade
by Andrea Bernasconi
Andrea Bernasconi - Olimpiade - German title page of the libretto - München 1764 Andrea Bernasconi - Olimpiade - German title page of the libretto - München 1764
English	The Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist
Genre	Oratorio
Occasion	Lent
Libretto	Giovanni Domenico Filippeschi
Premiere
Date	1709
Location	Vienna

"Siam navi all'onde algenti" is an aria from the opera L'Olimpiade (Engl.: The Olympiad) by Antonio Maria Bononcini. The author of the libretto is Pietro Metastasio.

--The manuscript indicates Gaetano (Orsini) as the singer.

It appears on the following album:

Year	Album	Ensemble
2020	Forgotten Arias (Album)	Le Concert de la Loge

Libretto

Siam navi all'onde algenti

(I kiss the shadows and the chains)

from  La Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista
Antonio Maria Bononcini (music),  Giovanni Domenico Filippeschi (words)

(San Giovanni Battista)

‎

	Modernized Italian
Siam navi all'onde algenti Che m'affliggon sol per tè. E il mio cor che te sospira Piange e delira Et adora le sue pene Che dan lustro a la sua fé.

	Ancient Italian
[] Source: Manuscript, 1709

I kiss the shadows and the chains That distress me only for your sake. My heart that sighs for you It weeps and raves And loves its pains That give lustre to its faith.

	Ancient German poetic translation
Ich kuß jene schwere Ketten Die vor dich nur quälen mich. Mein nach dir seufzendes Hertze Auch seinen Schmertze Pflegt mit Thränen anzubetten Wardurch meine Treu zeigt sich. Source: Libretto, Vienna, 1709

	Modernized German
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Sources

Beginning of "Bacio l'ombre," manuscript, ca. 1709

• Free Score at the IMSLP:

Copyist of Vienna

Manuscript, n.d. (ca.1709).

Public Domain

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (A-Wn): Mus.Hs.17066

"La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista (Bononcini, Antonio Maria)". IMSLP. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.

• Libretto in German

Die Enthaubtung Deß H. Johannes Deß Tauffers: Oratorio In der Röm. Kayserl. Majest. Josebh Deß Ersten Hof-Capellen

Wälsch gesungen / Im Jahr 1709 *

Componirt / Von dem Herrn Abbate Gioan Domenico Filippeschi,

der Röm. Kays. Majest. geistlichen Compositoren,

Mit der Music / Deß Herrn Antonio Bononcini

Gedruckt zu Wienn / Bey den Cosmerovischen Erben / der Röm. Kayserl. Majest. Hof-Buchdruckeey.

Autor/in Giovanni Domenico Filippeschi

Verlag Bey den Cosmerovischen Erben, 1709

Original: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

*)"wälsch" (referring to the language) = dated for "German";
"Wälsch gesungen" = "Sung in Italian"

Die Enthaubtung Deß H. Johannes Deß Tauffers. Bey den Cosmerovischen Erben. 1709. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.

Further reading

• "La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista". Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
• Glüxam, Dagmar. "Orsini, Gaetano Felice". Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2021.