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• I'll destroy the proud foe in his glory (♦) (♦) - 1280x1024, 1920x1024 pixel
• The youngling ravish'd from its nest (♦) (♦) - 1280x1024, 1920x1024 pixel
• Ah traitress, wicked and impure! (♦) (♦) - 1280x1024, 1920x1024 pixel

      Incipit of pieces

Incipit of pieces set in alphabetical order.

• A brother injured lost!, Act the third, scene 1
• A faithful friend!, Act the first, scene 6
• A very kind embrace!, Act the first, scene 8
• Ah traitress, wicked and impure!, Act the third, scene 6
• All my glories I resign, Act the third, scene 7
• Amelia wishes when she dies, Act the third, scene 9
• At length the sultan's arms, Act the first, scene 7
• At your request he lives, Act the second, scene 5
• Be this the day appointed, Act the first, scene 4
• Come, sad companion of eternal grief!, Act the first, scene 8
• Darest thou obstruct my way?, Act the second, scene 5
• Distracting fears, Act the first, scene 5
• Friendship, glory, i disdain, Act the first, scene 3
• Here let the wearied army rest awhile, Act the first, scene 1
• How can you vainly thus pretend, Act the second, scene 5
• I seize you prisoners to Prince Casimir, Act the third, scene 6
• I'll destroy the proud foe in his glory, Act the first, scene 4
• It's certain she is fled, but who could think, Act the third, scene 7
• Joy of my heart! the longer I converse, Act the second, scene 5
• Just heav'ns in my resentments join, Act the third, scene 4
• Leave me, leave me, Act the first, scene 3
• Let me not hear you speak, Act the first, scene 8
• Let me press thee, o my charmer, Act the third, scene 9
• Let not mortals tempt their fate, Act the third, scene 3
• Lovely Augusta, follow your sad sister, Act the first, scene 8
• Lovely creature! while I'm gazing, Act the second, scene 5
• My charmer's very name, Act the third, scene 2
• Now traitress! take the just reward, Act the third, scene 9
• Now, the delightful object of my soul!, Act the second, scene 6
• O for a deadly instrument, to end, Act the second, scene 4
• O let me die, while yet I see, Act the first, scene 2
• O live Amelia! live, thou best of wives!, Act the third, scene 9
• O vile lascivious pair!, Act the third, scene 6
• Oh let not fears, Act the first, scene 5
• Oh princess! why this solemn face of mourning?, Act the first, scene 5
• Oh what a dismal day is this, Rodulpho!, Act the first, scene 3
• Rodulpho, you have shewn a friendship, Act the third, scene 5
• Save me, Rodulpho!, Act the third, scene 3
• She's false, insufferably false!, Act the third, scene 4
• So close! so kind!, Act the first, scene 5
• So the gentle turtle-dove, Act the second, scene 1
• Stop this effusion of your tears, my princess, Act the first, scene 5
• Tell me, my mussulman, Act the second, scene 3
• That all succeeding times, Act the first, scene 8
• The eagle with its prey, Act the first, scene 7
• The furious tiger for a while kept under, Act the second, scene 4
• The happy time will soon approach, Act the third, scene 3
• The youngling ravish'd from its nest, Act the second, scene 3
• Thus far, dread princess!, Act the second, scene 1
• To one so fair and kind, Act the second, scene 6
• To see such woes dear Casimir oppress, Act the second, scene 2
• To the arms of my dearest i'm flying, Act the second, scene 5
• To what a hazardous presumption, Act the third, scene 8
• Vengeance! Vengeance! swift overtake 'em, Act the first, scene 6
• Weep not, Amelia, Act the first, scene 2
• Well, Casimir! you see the fate of war, Act the first, scene 7
• What heart can help bleeding, my charmer!, Act the first, scene 2
• What toil! what danger! and what care!, Act the first, scene 1
• What, gone! impossible! it cannot be, Act the second, scene 2
• When dangers innocence invade, Act the third, scene 9
• Who would not with gladness surrender, Act the second, scene 5
• Why, Casimir, with sacrilegious hands, Act the third, scene 4
• Why, with uplisted arms and pointed steel, Act the third, scene 2
• You wrong me, fair Augusta, Act the first, scene 3

      Acts and scenes

Libretto acts' and scenes' list.

Act the first

• Scene the first
  Scene, a spacious country. Osmyn at the head of the Turkish army.
• Scene the second
  A court before Casimir's palace. Casimir, Amelia, Augusta, and Rodulpho.
• Scene the third
  Augusta and Rodulpho.
• Scene the fourth
  A prospect of the Turkish camp. Osmyn, Officers, Guards, and Attendants.
• Scene the fifth
  Rodulpho and Amelia.
• Scene the sixth
  Augusta alone.
• Scene the seventh.
  A pavilion. Osmyn, with Attendants.
• Scene the eighth
  A room. Amelia and Rodulpho.

Act the second

• Scene the first
  Scene Osmyn's pavilion. Casimir, chain'd at the entry. Enter Rodulpho in a Turkish habit, with Amelia, likewise disguised.
• Scene the second
  A gallery. Augusta, with Attendants.
• Scene the third
  Osmyn's pavilion. Casimir at the entry, as before. Osmyn, Rodulpho, and Amelia.
• Scene the fourth
  Casimir alone.
• Scene the fifth
  Enter Osmyn, Amelia, and Rodulpho.
• Scene the sixth
  Osmyn, Amelia.

Act the third

• Scene the first
  A room in Casimir's palace. Augusta alone.
• Scene the second
  Casimir enters.
• Scene the third
  A room in Osmyn's pavilion. Rodulpho alone.
• Scene the fourth
  Casimir alone in an apartment.
• Scene the fifth
  Amelia and Rodulpho
• Scene the sixth
  Enter Officer.
• Scene the seventh
  An Apartment in Osmyn's pavilion. Osmyn alone.
• Scene the eighth
  A prison. Rodulpho alone.
• Scene the ninth
  A great hall. Amelia going to execution. After a dead march, enter Augusta.

      Changes of scene painting

All the scene paintings described in the libretto.

Act the first

• Scene 1: A spacious country.
• Scene 2: A court before Casimir's palace.
• Scene 4: A prospect of the Turkish camp.
• Scene 7: A pavillion.
• Scene 8: A room.

Act the second

• Scene 1: Osmyn's pavilion
• Scene 2: A gallery.
• Scene 3: Osmyn's pavilion.

Act the third

• Scene 1: A room in Casimir's palace.
• Scene 3: A room in Osmyn's pavilion.
• Scene 4: An apartment in the palace.
• Scene 5: A spacious plain.
• Scene 7: An Apartment in Osmyn's pavilion.
• Scene 8: A prison.
• Scene 9: A great hall.

      The acts in brief

For every act the synthesis of the scene paintings, of the pieces, of performers' entrance and leaving, of the main passages.

• Act the first
• Act the second
• Act the third

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