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1.ALMIRA. QUEEN OF CASTILE

Opera in three acts. Libretto by Frideric Christian Feustking after Giulio Pancieri.
Almira, Queen of Castile - Ann Monoyios (soprano)
Edilia, a royal princess - Patricia Rozario (soprano)
Bellante, Princess ofAranda - Linda Gerrard (soprano)
Consalvo, Prince of Segovia, also Asia - Dvid Thomas (bass)
Osman, his son, also Africa - Douglas Nasrawi (tenor)
Fernando, the queen's secretary, also Europe - Jamie MacDougall (tenor)
Raymondo, a king from Mauretania - OlafHaye (bass)
Tabarco, Femando's servant, also Folly - Christian Eisner (tenor)
Fiori musicali, con. Andrew Lawrence-King
(1994)

1(1) Overture/Orchestra

Act I

Scene 1

2(2) Durchlauchtigste, des Titans heller Schein / Consalvo
3(3) Wohlan, entzuend'den Blitz / Consalvo, Coro
4(4)  Chaconne and Sarabande / Orchestra

Scene 2

5(5) Die Nachwelt wird in Diamanten aetzen /Almira, Consalvo, Osman, Fernando
6(6) Ach wiltu die Herzen auf ewig verbinden / Osman
7(7) Duherbstmich,grosseKoenigin/ Fernando, Almira

Scene 3

8(8)Durchlauchtigste, des Vaters letzten Willen/Consalvo, Almira
9(9)Chi piu mi piace il voglio / Almira

Scene 4

10(10) Schoentste Rosen / Edilia
11(11) 1st bier Edilia?/Osman, Edilia
12(12) Ich bin versoehnt / Edilia, Osman
13(13) Schaum immer Gift und Gallen! / Osman

Scene 5

14(14) Liebliche Waelder, schattige Felder / Fernando
15(15) Die Koenigin ist meiner Liebe Ziel /Fernando

Scene 6

16(16) Vollkommene Haende / Almira
17(17) Ich Liebe Di/Fernando, Almira
18(18) Geloso tormento / Almira

Scene 7

19(19) Auf diesen angenehmen Wedgen / Consalvo, Edilia
20(20) Wer umb Geld und Hoheit widen / Consalvo
21(21) Ich stimme diesen Wortenbei Edilia

Scene 8

22(22) Weil es die Koenigin befohlen / Edilia

Scene 9

23(23) Auf, auf, mein Herz! / Tabarco
24(24) Ich will euch verdammen / Osman

Scene 10

25(25) Nein, Amor, nein / Edilia, Osman

Scene 11

26(26) Die Koenigin Almira laesst befehlen / Consalvo, Edilia, Osman, Fernando, Bellante,
Tabarco
27(27) Courante - Bouree - Menuet - Rondeau / Orchestra

Scene 12

28(28) Wie, trauem'ich Oder nicht? / Almira,Fernando, Edilia, Osman, Bellante, Consalvo

Act II

Scene 1,2

29(29) Durchlauchtigste, aus Maurentanien / Fernando, Almira, Raymondo, Consalvo

Scene 3

30(30) Chi sa, mia speme / Bellante
31(31) DochleererTrost/Bellante, Consalvo,Tabarco
32(32) Verdruss und Unmuth haeltmich einge-schlossen / Bellante, Consalvo, Tabarco

Scene 4

33(33) Ich muss allein in diesem Zimmer bleiben / Fernando, Tabarco

Scene 5

34(34) Sprich vor mir susses Wort / Tabarco,Fernando, Osman

Scene 6

35(35) Entzeuch das Blatt nur meinen Augennicht / Almira, Fernando
36(36) Nein, nein, Fernando, nein! / Almira, Osman,Fernando

Scene 7

37(37) Durchlauchtigste, darfich die Gnad'erbitten / Consalvo, Almira
38(38) Scepter und Kron / Osman, Consalvo

Scenes

39(39) Mi da speranza al core / Raymondo, Almira
40(40) Zweier Augen Majestaet / Raymondo, Almira

Scene 9,10

41(41) Ich kann nicht mehr verschwiegenbrenner / Almira
42(42) Hilf, Himmel, Osman Kommt / Almira,Osman, Fernando
43(43)Ob dein Mund wie Plutons Rachen Schwefel, Gift und Feuer speit / Fernando

Scene 11

44(44) Beglueckter Tag / Almira

Scene 12

45(45) Raymondo hat mir seinen Fuerstenstand entdeckt / Almira, Consalvo, Edilio, Osman
46(46) Der Himmel wird strafen dein faischesGemuet/Edilia

Scene 13

47(47) Wie muss sich doch Tabarco stets zu plagen / Tabarco
48(48) Schuerzchen mit dem Falbala / Tabarco

Act III

Scene 1

49(49) Buecke dich, du Kreis der Welt / Fernando

Scene 2

50(50) Meiner Pracht muss alles weichen / Osman

Scene 3

51(51) DustolzerErdenkreis!/Consalvo; Raymondo, Almira, Edilia, Bellante

Scene 4

52(52) Kommt, vermehrt der Thorheit Ruhm / Tabarco

Scene 5

53(53) Quillt, ihr ueberhaeuften Zaehren / Edilia
54(54) Was 1st das deinen Geist in Unmuth setzt / Raymondo, Edilia; Consalvo

Scene 6

55(55) Ja, Amor, deine Grausamkeit / Bellante
56(56) Und will dein herz mich noch nicht Lieben? / Consalvo, Bellante

Scene 7

57(57) Edele Sinnen schaffen von hinnen /Fernando
58(58) Fernando, gib mir deinen Degen / Consalvo, Fernando

Scene 8

59(59) Gen, Unvorsichtiger / Consalvo, Almira
60(60) Vedrai, s'a tuo dispetto cangiar ben tosto affetto / Almira

Scene 9

61(61) Edilia, du bleibest mem / Raymonda, Edilia

Scene 10

62(62) Treuloser Mensch / Almira

Scene 11

63(63) Durchlauchtigste, der Himmel muss verehren die Schoenheit / Osman, Almira, Tabarco
64(64) Werthe Schrift, geliebte Zeilen / Almira

Scene 12

65(65) Entweich, verlasse mich / Edilia, Osman

Scene 13

66(66) Quel labro di coral / Raymondo

Scene 14

67(67) Der kann im Blitz und Donner lachen / Fernando, Tabarco

Scene 15

68(68) Verhaengnis, wiltu denn nur mich Verlass'nen f aellen_ / Fernando, Almira
69(69) Spielet, ihr blitzenden Augen, mit mir / Fernando, Almira

Scene 16

70(70) Ich brenne zwar, doch ohne dein Bewegen / Bellante
71(71) Glaub, Schoene, dass dass dein holder Mund / Osman, Bellante

Scene 17

72(72) Fernando hat sich zwar erklaert / Almira, Consalvo, Bellante, Osman, Fernando

Scene 18

73(73) Durchlauchtigste, des Himmels hohe Gunst/Tutti
74(74) Wir hoffen, der Himmel wird nach dem Getuemmel / Coro

2. HERCULES

A Musical Drama. libretto by Thomas Broughton.
Hercules - John Tomplison (bass)
Dejanira, his wife - Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)
Hyllus, his son - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
lole, Princess of Oechalia - Jennifer Smith (soprano)
Lichas, a herald, faithful servant to Dejanira - Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano)
Priest of Jupiter - Peter Savidge (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists, con. John Eliot Gardiner.
(1982)

Act I

1(75) Overture/Orchestra
2(76) See with what sad dejection /Lichas
3(77) No longer, Fate, relentless frown / Lichas
4(78) O Hercules! why art thou absent fromm me? / Dejanira
5(79) Princess! be comforted, and hope the best / Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus
6(80) I feel, I feel the god/Hyllus
7(81) Then I am lost! 0 dreaful oracle! / Dejanira
8(82) Despair not! but rising hope suspend / Hyllus
9(83) 0filial piety! 0 generous love! /Chorus
10(84) Banish your fears! The noble Hercules /Lichas, Dejanira
11(85) A train of captives, red with honest wounds / Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira 12(86)
March/Orchestra
13(87) Thanks to the powers above / Hercules, lole
14(88) My father! Ah! methinks I see / lole
15(89) Now farewell, arms! From hence the tide of time / Hercules
16(90) Gross with festal pomp the day / Chorus
17(91) How blest the maid ordained to dwell / lole
18(92) It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs / Dejanira, lole
19(93) Whence this unjust suspicion? / lole, ejanira
20(94) Ah! think what ills the jealous prove / lole
21(95) It is too sure that Hercules is false / Dejanira, Lichas
22(95) Jealousy! Infernal pest / Chorus

Act II

23(97) She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe/Hyllus, lole
24(98) From celestial seats descending / Hyllus
25(99) Wanton god of amorous fires / Chorus
26(100) Yes, I congratulate your titles, swelled / Dejanira, Hercules
27(101) 0 glorious pattern of heroic deeds! / Dejanira
28(102) You are deceived! Some villian has belied / Hercules, Dejanira
29(103) Cease, ruler of the day, to rise / Dejanira
30(104) Some kinder power inspire me to regain /Dejanira, Lichas, lole
31 (105) Joys of freedom, joys of power / Dejanira, lole
32(106) Father of Hercules, great Jove, 0 help / Dejanira, Chorus

Act III

33(107) Sinfonia/Sinfonia
34(108) Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief / Lichas
35(109) O scene of unexampled woe / Lichas
36(110) Tyrants now no more shall dread / Chorus
37(111) O Jove! what land is this, what clime accurst / Hercules
38(112) Great Jove! relieve his pains! / Hyllus, Hercules
39(113) Let not fame the tidings spread / Hyilus
40(114) Where shall I flu? Where hide this guilty head? / Dejanira
41(115) Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin! / Dejanira, lole
42(116) My breast with tender pity swells / lole
43(117) Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand / Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira
44(118) Words are too faint to speak the warring passions / Dejanira, Priest, Hyllus, lole
45(119) 0 prince, whose virtues all admire / lole, Hyllus
46(120) Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime /Priest, Chorus

3.THE CHOISE OF HERCULES

Pleasure - Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger (soprano)
Virtue - Arleen Auger (soprano)
Hercules - Alaine Zaeppffel (counter-tenor)
An Attendant on Pleasure - Eberhard Buechner (tenor)
Leipziger Universitaetschor
Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig, 
con.Max Pommer
(1982)

1(121) Sinfonia/Orchestra
2(122) See, Hercules! how smiles you myrtle plain / Pleasure
3(123) Come, blooming boy, with my repair / Pleasure
4(124) There the brisk sparkling nectar drain/ Pleasure
5(125) White for thy arms that beauty glows/Pleasure, Chorus
6(126) Away, mistaken wretch, away! /Virtue
7(127) This manly youth's exalted mind /Virtue
8(128) Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me/Virtue
9(129) Go, assert thy heav'nly race /virtue
10(130) In peace, in war pursue thy country's good/Virtue
11(131) So shat thou gain immortal praise/Virtue, Chorus
12(132) Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage? / Pleasure
13(133) Turn thee, youth, to joi and love / Pleasure, Chorus
14(134) Short is my way, fair, easy, smoothand plain / Pleasure, Hercules
15(135) Yet can I hear that dulcet lay / Hercules
16(136) Enjoy the sweet Elysyan grove / An Attendant on Pleasure
17(137) Oh! whither, reason, dost thou fly? / Hercules
18(138) Where shall I go? / Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules
19(139) Mount, mount the steep ascent / Virtue
20(140) Mount, mount the steep ascent / Virtue
21(141) Arise, arise/Chorus
22(142) The sounds breathe fire celestial / Hercules
23(143) Lead goddess, lead the way / Hercules
24(144) Virtue will place thee in that blest abode / Chorus