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Theodora, HWV68Year: 1749
Genre: Oratorio
Pr. Instruments: Chorus/Choir & Voice
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Act 1
- 1.Overture...Trio...Courante
- 2.Recitative: 'Tis Dioclesian's natal Day
- 3.Air: Go my faithful Soldier, go
- 4.Chorus: And draw a Blessing down
- 5.Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread Sir, a gracious Ear
- 6.Air: Racks, Gibbets, Sword, and Fire
- 7.Chorus: For ever thus stands fix'd the Doom
- 8.Recitative: Most cruel Edict
- 9.Air: The raptur'd Soul defies the Sword
- 10.Recitative: I know thy Virtues
- 11.Air: Descend, kind Pity
- 12.Recitative: Tho' hard, my Friends, yet Wholesome
- 13.Air: Fond, flatt'ring World
- 14.Recitative: O bright Example of all goodness
- 15.Air: Bane of Virtue
- 16.Chorus: Come, mighty father
- 17.Recitative: Fly, fly, my Brethren
- 18.Air: As with rosy steps the Morn
- 19.Chorus: All Pow'r in Heav'n above
- 20.Recitative: Mistaken wretches
- 21.Air: Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly
- 22.Recitative: Deluded Mortal; Accompagnato: O worse than Death indeed
- 23.Air: Angels, ever bright, and fair
- 24.Recitative: Unhappy, happy Crew
- 25.Air: Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care
- 26.Recitative: Oh Love! how great thy Pow'r
- 27.Chorus: Go, gen'rous, pious Youth
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Act 2
- 1.Recitative: Ye Men of Antioch
- 2.Chorus: Queen of Summer
- 3.Air: Wide spread his Name
- 4.Recitative: Return, Septimus
- 5.Chorus: Venus laughing from the Skies
- 6.Symphony 1
- 7.Recitative: O thou bright Sun
- 8.Air: With Darkness
- 9.Symphony 2
- 10.Recitative: But why art Thou disquieted
- 11.Air: O that I on Wings cou'd rise
- 12.Recitative: Long have I known
- 13.Air: Tho' the Honours
- 14.Recitative: O save her then
- 15.Air: Deeds of Kindness to display
- 16.Recitative: The Clouds begin to veil the Hemisphere
- 17.Air: Defend her, Heav'n
- 18.Recitative: Or lull'd with Grief
- 19.Air: Sweet Rose and Lilly
- 20.Recitative: O save me, Heav'n
- 21.Air: The Pilgrim's Home
- 22.Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heav'n; Recitative: Ah! What is liberty
- 23.Duet: To Thee, Thou glorious Son of worth
- 24.Recitative: 'Tis night
- 25.Chorus: He saw the lovely Youth
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Act 3
- 1.Air: Lord, to Thee each night and day
- 2.Recitative: But see, the good, the virtuous
- 3.Air: When sunk in Anguish and Despair
- 4.Chorus: Blest be the Hand
- 5.Recitative: Undaunted in the Court; Accompagnato: O my Ireme, Heav'n is kind
- 6.Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly?
- 7.Recitative: She's gone disdaining liberty and life
- 8.Aria: New scenes of Joy come crowding on
- 9.Recitative: Is it a Christian virtue then; Be That my Doom
- 10.Air: From virtue springs each gen'rous Deed
- 11.Air: Cease, ye Slaves, your fruitless Pray'r
- 12.Recitative: Tis kind, my Friends
- 13.Chorus: How strange their Ends
- 14.Recitative: On me your Frowns
- 15.Air: Ye Ministers of Justice
- 16.Recitative: And must such Beauty suffer
- 17.Air: Streams of Pleaseure ever flowing; Duet: Thither let our Hearts aspire
- 18.Recitative: E'er This, their Doom is past
- 19.Chorus: O Love Divine
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