Dutch request for "Sovente il sole"

This exceptionally beautiful aria was written by the great Vivaldi as part of the pasticcio/serenata Andromeda Liberata, which was devised in honour to fellow Venetian, cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, (who would eventually become Pope Alexander VIII) with the participation of Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Porta, Niccolò Porpora and Antonio Lotti on top of Vivaldi himself.

First performed in Venice on the 18th of September, 1726.

Text by Vincenzo Cassani