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Libretto texts that don't concerne the acting.

• Preface
• The argument

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      Incipit of pieces

Incipit of pieces set in alphabetical order.

• 'Tis not true, that in our grief, Act three, scene 6
• Acquit thee of this soul offence, Act one, scene 11
• Adieu, thou lovely youth, Act one, scene 1
• Ah me! at poor Arbaces' parting, Act two, scene 9
• Ah, dear Rimenes, pity my hard fate, Act one, scene 12
• Alas! thou know'st that for my love to thee, Act one, scene 1
• Alas, Mandane! / Does Darius live?, Act one, scene 7
• Am I so much the hatred of all Persia, Act two, scene 8
• Amid a thousand racking woes, Act one, scene 2
• And you his guards, in the next chamber wait, Act two, scene 1
• Appearance, I must own, is strong against me, Act one, scene 12
• Arbaces! / Gracious heaven, what's this I see!, Act three, scene 1
• Artabanes! / Where is Arbaces?, Act three, scene 3
• At length my soul has room t'indulge its grief, Act two, scene 12
• Be firm my heart. ~ In the pursuit of guilt, Act one, scene 3
• Beauteous Mandane, turn at least and hear me, Act one, scene 13
• Behold! on Lethe's dismal strand, Act one, scene 3
• Behold, my king, Arbaces at thy feet, Act three, scene 11
• By that beloved embrace, Act two, scene 8
• Dear Artabanes, glad I meet thee here, Act one, scene 3
• Dear and beloved shade of my dead fathe, Act one, scene 14
• Disdainful you fly me, Act two, scene 1
• Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay, Act one, scene 1
• Fair Semira, lovely maid, Act one, scene 4
• Fly quick, my liege; thousands of rebel troops, Act three, scene 9
• Fly, soft ideas, fly, Act one, scene 14
• For thee I live, my dearest, Act three, scene 7
• Guards, speed ye to the tower, Act two, scene 1
• He murder Xerxes! Impious supposition!, Act three, scene 10
• Hold, brother, the rebellious crew are fled, Act three, scene 10
• How hard is my fate, Act one, scene 6
• How many links to dire misfortune's chain, Act two, scene 5
• I fear some dread disaster ~ say, Rimenes, Act one, scene 5
• I tremble ~ hear me, sir, ~ O, if you love me, Act two, scene 4
• If o'er the cruel tyrant love, Act two, scene 5
• If the river's swelling waves, Act two, scene 6
• In infancy, our hopes and fears, Act two, scene 1
• In this valiant chief, Act two, scene 3
• Let not rage, thy bosom firing, Act three, scene 5
• Live to us, to empire live, Act three, scene 11
• Monster, away! / from chearful day, Act two, scene 9
• My father! / Ever watchful to preferve thee, Act two, scene 1
• My friend! ~ ~ / I sought you, sir, Act one, scene 8
• My son, Arbaces ~ Where art thou retired?, Act three, scene 3
• Nor here my searching eyes can find Mandane, Act three, scene 7
• Not yet arrived! ~ / Sir, Artabanes!, Act three, scene 3
• O Artaxerxes! / Say, fair Semira, why this seeming joy?, Act one, scene 9
• O cruel parting! how can I survive?, Act one, scene 2
• O let the danger of a son, Act three, scene 3
• O much loved son, if death, Act three, scene 4
• O too lovely, tod unkind, Act one, scene 13
• O unhappy father!, Act three, scene 3
• O, Artabanes? / Lament not, sir, but leave complaints to me, Act two, scene 11
• Perhaps the king released Arbaces, Act three, scene 5
• See, loved Semira! / how heaven conspires the ruin of Arbaces., Act two, scene 10
• So far my great resolve succeeds, Act two, scene 1
• Son, Arbaces. / My father!, Act one, scene 2
• Stay, Artaxerxes, stay, Act one, scene 4
• Stay, dear Mandane ~, Act two, scene 5
• Still silence reigns around, suspicion sleeps, Act one, scene 1
• That front, secure in conscious innocence, Act three, scene 2
• The soldier, tired of war's alarms, Act three, scene 10
• This bosom, a stranger to rest, Act two, scene 10
• Tho' oft a cloud, with envious shade, Act three, scene 2
• Thou, like the glorious sun, Act two, scene 12
• Thy father! away, I renounce the soft claim, Act one, scene 10
• To sigh and complain, Act two, scene 4
• To you, my people, much beloved, I offer, Act three, scene 8
• Water parted from the sea, Act three, scene 1
• What have I done! alas, I vainly thought, Act three, scene 6
• When real joy we miss, Act one, scene 5
• Where do I fly? ~ Ah, hapless maid! ~, Act one, scene 7
• Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?, Act two, scene 6
• Who in his royal presence would believe Arbaces to be guilty?, Act one, scene 10
• Why is death for ever late, Act three, scene 1
• Why, my dear friend, so pcnsive, so inactive?, Act two, scene 2
• Ye adverse gods! y'ave found the only way, Act three, scene 4
• Ye cruel gods, what crime have I committed, Act one, scene 11
• Ye gods, protectors of the Persian empire, Act one, scene 6
• Ye powers! Arbaces! and at liberty!, Act three, scene 7
• Ye solid pillars of the Persian empire, Act two, scene 7

      Acts and scenes

Libretto acts' and scenes' list.

Act one

• Scene one
  An inner garden belonging to the palace of the king of Persia. Moon-light. Mandane and Arbaces.
• Scene two
  
• Scena three
  Artabanes solus.
• Scene four
  Artaxerxes going; enter Semira.
• Scene five
  
• Scene six
  Semira sola.
• Scene seven
  The palace. Enter Mandane.
• Scene eight
  Enter Artabanes.
• Scene nine
  Enter Semira.
• Scene ten
  Enter Rimenes with Arbaces prisoner.
• Scene eleven
  
• Scene twelve
  
• Scene thirteen
  Arbaces, Mandane.
• Scene fourteen
  Mandane sola.

Act two

• Scene one
  The royal apartments. Enter Artaxerxes, Artabanes.
• Scene two
  Enter Rimenes.
• Scena three
  Enter Semira.
• Scene four
  
• Scene five
  
• Scene six
  Semira sola.
• Scene seven
  A hall of royal council with a throne, seats on the sides for the grandees of kingdom, a small table and chair on the right hand of the throne, Artaxerxes, preceded by guards, afterwards by the nobles, follow'd by Mandane, Semira, Artabanes and Rimenes.
• Scene eight
  Enter Arbaces in chains, guarded.
• Scene nine
  
• Scene ten
  
• Scene eleven
  
• Scene twelve
  Artabanes solus.

Act three

• Scene one
  A prison. Arbaces, in a melancholy posture.
• Scene two
  
• Scene three
  Enter Artabanes, with a train of conspirators.
• Scene four
  Artabanes solus.
• Scene five
  Mandane's apartment. Enter Mandane and Semira.
• Scene six
  Semira sola.
• Scene seven
  Enter Arbaces.
• Scene eight
  A Temple, and throne, with a crown and scepter; the image of the sun, with a lighted altar. Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Nobles, etc.
• Scene nine
  Enter Semira hastily.
• Scene ten
  Enter Mandane.
• Scene, the last
  Enter Artabanes and Arbaces.

      Changes of scene painting

All the scene paintings described in the libretto.

Act one

• Scene 1: An inner garden belonging to the palace of the king of Persia. Moon-light.
• Scene 7: The palace.

Act two

• Scene 1: The royal apartments
• Scene 7: A hall of royal council with a throne, seats on the sides for the grandees of kingdom

Act three

• Scene 1: A prison.
• Scene 5: Mandane's apartment.
• Scene 8: A Temple, and throne, with a crown cnid sceptre.

      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 one
• Act two
• Act three

      Musical numbers

Score musical numbers and their incipit, with link to libretto.

• Ouverture

Act one

• N. 1 - Duettino (Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay, scene 1)
• N. 2 - Air (Adieu, thou lovely youth, scene 1)
• N. 3 - Air (Amid a thousand racking woes, scene 2)
• N. 4 - Air (Behold! on Lethe's dismal strand, scene 3)
• N. 5 - Air (Fair Semira, lovely maid, scene 4)
• N. 6 - Air (When real joy we miss, scene 5)
• N. 7 - Air (How hard is my fate, scene 6)
• N. 8 - Air (Thy father! away, I renounce the soft claim, scene 10)
• N. 9 - Air (Acquit thee of this soul offence, scene 11)
• N. 10 - Air (O too lovely, tod unkind, scene 13)
• N. 11 - Air (Fly, soft ideas, fly, scene 14)

Act two

• N. 12 - Air (In infancy, our hopes and fears, scene 1)
• N. 13 - Air (Disdainful you fly me, scene 1)
• N. 14 - Air (To sigh and complain, scene 4)
• N. 15 - Air (If o'er the cruel tyrant love, scene 5)
• N. 16 - Air (If the river's swelling waves, scene 6)
• N. 17 - Air (By that beloved embrace, scene 8)
• N. 18 - Air (Monster, away! / from chearful day, scene 9)
• N. 19 - Air (Thou, like the glorious sun, scene 12)

Act three

• N. 20 - Arietta (Why is death for ever late, scene 1)
• N. 21 - Air (Water parted from the sea, scene 1)
• N. 22 - Air (Tho' oft a cloud, with envious shade, scene 2)
• N. 23 - Air (O let the danger of a son, scene 3)
• N. 24 - Air (O much loved son, if death, scene 4)
• N. 25 - Air (Let not rage, thy bosom firing, scene 5)
• N. 26 - Air ('Tis not true, that in our grief, scene 6)
• N. 27 - Duetto (For thee I live, my dearest, scene 7)
• N. 28 - Air (The soldier, tired of war's alarms, scene 10)
• N. 29 - Finale (Live to us, to empire live, scene 11)

      Significant pieces

Pieces that are pointed out from critics and musicologists.

Act one

• Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane, Arbaces), scene 1
• O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces), scene 13
• Fly, soft ideas, fly (Mandane), scene 14

Act two

• In infancy, our hopes and fears (Artaxerxes), scene 1
• By that beloved embrace (Arbaces), scene 8
• Monster, away! (Mandane), scene 9
• Thou, like the glorious sun (Artabanes), scene 12

Act three

• Water parted from the sea (Arbaces), scene 1
• Tho' oft a cloud, with envious shade (Artaxerxes), scene 2
• The soldier, tired of war's alarms (Mandane), scene 10

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