Handel, La Resurrezione, Notte funesta, Ferma l'ali. Maria Cristina Kiehr

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Maria Cristina Kiehr (Maddalena)
Notte, notte funesta / Ferma l'ali, e sui miei lumi, from La Resurrezione
George Frideric Handel 1708
Libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece

(Recitative)
Night, sorrowful night
you that mourn with grief-filled darkness
the setting of the divine Sun;
let me weep also,
and, ah! do not with over-bearing sleep
relieve the burden
of my justified sorrow.

(Air)
Fold your wings, and over my eyes
do not fly, hard-hearted sleep. /
If you presume
to dry my sad tears,
first let me weep a stream as great
as the rivers of blood
shed by my God in dying for me.