Ninna nanna di uliva

Song TitleNinna nanna di uliva (Search)
Composer(s):Ildebrando Pizzetti
Author(s):Corrado D'Errico
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Jesus; Ardent; Baby Jesus; Begetting; Children; Christianity; Cradles; Dedication; Devotion; Entrusting; God; Jesus; Kings; Looking; Love; Monarchs; Mothers; Religion; Rocking; Serene; Shining; Sleeping; Sons; Speaker: Mother; Speaker: Virgin Mary; St. Olivia of Palermo; Stars; Struggles; Sweet; Vows; Wars; Watching; Women; Wounded
First LineGesù ti guarda, gesù ti culla (Search)
Average Duration3:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1933 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=371154
Larger WorkReppresentazione di S. Uliva (Search)
Original LanguageItalian (Search)
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/099eDOYwUoGI0WfhX2J4hm
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
NotesFrom the incidental music for a 1933 adaptation of an anonymous 16th-century play, Reppresentazione di S. Uliva, with an adapted libretto by d'Errico. The story concerns a fictionalized version of the life of Saint Olivia of Palermo (Search)
Sources Citedhttps://www.flaminioonline.it/Guide/Pizzetti/Pizzetti-Uliva97.html (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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