Act 1
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Overture |
George Frideric Handel: Alcina, HWV 34
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"My Ariel" (Prospero, Ariel) – "Ah, if you would earn your freedom" (Prospero)
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Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, cantata, RV 684, "Ah, ch'infelice sempre"
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"My master, generous master – I can conjure you fire" (Ariel)
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Handel: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a, part 1, "Un pensiero nemico di pace"
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"Then what I desire" (Prospero, Ariel)
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"There are times when the dark side – Maybe soon, maybe now" (Sycorax, Caliban)
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Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, act 5, scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata"
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"The blood of a dragon – Stolen by treachery" (Caliban)
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Handel: La resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, part 1, scene 1, "O voi, dell'Erebo"
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"Miranda! My Miranda!" (Prospero, Miranda) – "I have no words for this feeling" (Miranda)
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Handel: Notte placida e cheta, cantata, HWV 142, "Che non si dà"
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"My master's books – Take salt and stones" (Ariel)
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Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, Deuxième entrée: La Musique, scene 7, "Aimez, aimez d'une ardeur mutuelle"
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Quartet: "Days of pleasure, nights of love" (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander)
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, act 1, scene 4, "Endless pleasure, endless love"
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The Storm (chorus)
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André Campra: Idoménée, act 2, scene 1, "O Dieux! O justes Dieux!"
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"I've done as you commanded" (Ariel, Prospero)
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Handel: La resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, "Di rabbia indarno freme"
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"Oh, Helena, my Helen – You would have loved this island" (Demetrius)
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Handel: La resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, part 1, scene 2, "Così la tortorella"
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"Would that it could last forever – Wonderful, wonderful" (Miranda, Demetrius)
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Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, act 1, scene 5, "Prendi, prendi"
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"Why am I living?" (Helena) "With this, now I can start again – Once, once at my command" (Sycorax)
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Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, act 2, scene 1, "Dolce riposo" Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus, act 4, scene 4, "Et toi, dont les embrasements… Noires divinités"
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"Mother, why not? – Mother, my blood is freezing" (Caliban)
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Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV 711, act 2, scenes 5 & 6, "Gelido in ogni vena"
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"Help me out of this nightmare" – Quintet: "Beautiful, wonderful" (Helena, Sycorax, Caliban, Miranda, Demetrius)
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Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, act 1, scene 5, recitative preceding "Prendi, prendi"
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"Welcome Ferdinand – All I've done is try to help you" (Prospero)
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Vivaldi: Longe mala, umbrae, terrores, motet, RV 629, "Longe mala, umbrae, terrores"
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"Curse you, Neptune" (Lysander)
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Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718, act 3, scene 6, "Dopo un'orrida procella"
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"Your bride, sir?" (Ariel, Lysander, Demetrius, Miranda) – Trio: "Away, away! You loathsome wretch, away!" (Miranda, Demetrius, Lysander)
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Handel: Susanna, oratorio, HWV 66, part 2, "Away, ye tempt me both in vain"
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"Two castaways – Arise! Arise, great Neptune" (Ariel)
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Attr. Henry Purcell: The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island, Z. 631, act 2, no. 3, "Arise, ye subterranean winds"
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"This is convolvulus" (Helena, Caliban) – "If the air should hum with noises" (Caliban)
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Handel: Deidamia, HWV 42, act 2, scene 4, "Nel riposo e nel contento"
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"Neptune the Great" (Chorus)
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Handel: Four Coronation Anthems, HWV 258, "Zadok the Priest"
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"Who dares to call me? – Gone forever" (Neptune, Ariel) "I'd forgotten that I was Lord" (Neptune, Chorus)
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Based on Handel: Tamerlano, HWV 18, "Oh, per me lieto" Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, act 2, scene 3, "Qu'à servir mon courroux"
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Act 2
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"My God, what's this? – Where are you now?" (Hermia)
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Handel: Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60, act 3, scene 3, "Where shall I fly?"
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"So sweet, talking together" "Now it's returning" (Sycorax)
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Vivaldi: Argippo, RV 697, act 1, scene 1, "Se lento ancora il fulmine" Handel: Alcina, HWV 34, act 3, scene 1 – "Stà nell'Ircana"
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"Have you seen a young lady?" (Demetrius, Helena, Caliban) – "A voice, a face, a figure half-remembered" (Helena)
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Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, act 3, scene 4, "Hanno penetrato i detti tuoi l'inferno"
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"His name, she spoke his name – The rage" (Caliban)
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Handel: Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60, act 3, scene 2 "O Jove, what land is this? – I rage"
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"I try to shape my destiny – Chaos, confusion" (Prospero)
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Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, act 2, scene 5, "Pena tiranna"
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"Oh, my darling, my sister – Men are fickle" (Helena, Hermia)
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Handel: Atalanta, HWV 35, act 2, scene 3 – "Amarilli? – O dei!"
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"I knew the spell" (Sycorax, Caliban) – "Hearts that love can all be broken" (Sycorax)
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Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (attr. Handel): Il pianto di Maria, cantata, HWV 234, "Giunta l'ora fatal – Sventurati i miei sospiri"
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"Such meager consolation – No, I'll have no consolation" (Caliban)
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Vivaldi: Bajazet, RV 703, act 3, scene 7, "Verrò, crudel spietato"
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Masque of the Wealth of all the World- Quartet: Caliban goes into his dream, "Wealth and love can be thine"
- Parade
- The Women and the Unicorn
- The Animals
- Chaos
- The Calm
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- Rameau: Les Indes galantes, act 3, scene 7, "Tendre amour"
- Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, Troisième entrée: La Danse, scene 7, Tambourin en rondeau
- Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, Troisième entrée: La Danse, scene 7, Musette
- Jean-Féry Rebel: es éléments, act 1, Tambourins 1 & 2
- Rameau: Platée, act 1, scene 6, Orage
- Campra: Idoménée, act 2, scene 1
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"With no sail and no rudder – Gliding onwards" (Ferdinand)
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Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, act 2, scene 1, "Io ramingo – Sussurrate, onde vezzose"
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Sextet: "Follow hither, thither, follow me" (Ariel, Miranda, Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander)
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Handel: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a, part 2, quartet: "Voglio tempo"
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"Sleep now" (Ariel)
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Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, RV 78, act 3, scene 1, "Sonno, se pur sei sonno"
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"Darling, it's you at last" (Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena)
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Vivaldi: La verità in cimento, RV 739, act 2, scene 9, "Anima mia, mio ben"
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"The wat'ry God has heard the island's pleas" (Chorus)
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Handel: Susanna, oratorio, HWV 66, part 3, "Impartial Heav'n!"
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"Sir, honored sir – I have dreamed you" (Ferdinand, Miranda)
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Handel: Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi, cantata, HWV 197, "Ma se l'alma sempre geme"
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"The time has come. The time is now" ("Maybe soon, maybe now," reprise) (Sycorax)
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Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, act 5, scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata"
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"Enough! How dare you?" (Prospero, Neptune) – "Tyrant! Merely a petty tyrant." (Neptune)
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Handel: Tamerlano, HWV 18, act 3, scene 1, "Empio, per farti guerra"
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"To stray is mortal" (Prospero, Caliban) – "Forgive me, please forgive me" (Prospero)
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Handel: Partenope, HWV 27, act 3, scene 4, "Ch'io parta?"
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"We gods who watch the ways of man" (Neptune, Sycorax, Chorus)
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Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, part 1, "Come, but keep thy wonted state – Join with thee"
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"This my hope for the future" (Prospero) – "Can you feel the heavens are reeling" (Ariel)
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Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718, act 2, scene 2, "Agitata da due venti"
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"Now a bright new day is dawning" (Ensemble)
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Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, oratorio, HWV 63, part 3, "Hallelujah"
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