ΚΑΛΗΝΥΧΤΑ ΜΕ ΤΗ "ΝΙΝΑ"

 Ο «ΘΡΥΛΙΚΟΣ» ΚΑΡΟΥΖΟ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΑ (1919) ΤΗΝ ΠΑΣΙΓΝΩΣΤΗ  ΑΡΙΑ «ΝΙΝΑ»

ΤΟΥ ΤΣΙΑΜΠΙ, ΒΑΣΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΣΕ ΜΙΑ ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΗ ΜΕΛΩΔΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΚΟΛΕΖΙ

In February 1748 Ciampi was composer and the music director of the company which presented the first season of Italian comic operas in London at the Kings Theatre. Tre giorni son che Nina (also attributed to Pergolesi) became the hit song in the opera Gli tre cicisbei ridicoli.

Tre giorni son che Nina is one of the best-known arias of the Italian Baroque. The lyrics refer to the concern of a man for his beloved Nina, who is in bed seriously ill. This is a common topic in the popular music of the period.

Tre giorni son che Nina

In letto se ne sta.

Il sonno l'assassina

Svegliatela, per pietà!

E cimbali e timpani e pifferi,

Svegliatemi Ninetta

Perchè non dorma più

E mentre il sior dottore

A visitarla va,

Ninetta per amore

In letto se ne sta.

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For three days Nina

has stayed in her bed.

The slumber is killing her.

Please waken her!

Cymbals, drums, and shawms,

waken my little Nina,

so she may not sleep any more.

And While the doctor

goes to visit her,

dear Nina, out of love,

stays in her bed.