The royal apartments
Guards, speed ye to the tower
[N. 12 - Air]
So far my great resolve succeeds
Artabanes
<- Arbaces, Guards
And you his guards, in the next chamber wait
Artabanes, Arbaces
Guards ->
My father! / Ever watchful to preferve thee
Artabanes, Arbaces
<- Guards
[N. 13 - Air]
Artabanes
Arbaces, Guards ->
Why, my dear friend, so pcnsive, so inactive?
Artabanes, Rimenes
<- Semira
In this valiant chief
Rimenes, Semira
Artabanes ->
I tremble ~ hear me, sir, ~ O, if you love me
[N. 14 - Air]
How many links to dire misfortune's chain
Stay, dear Mandane ~
[N. 15 - Air]
Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?
[N. 16 - Air]
A hall of royal council with a throne, seats on the sides for the grandees of kingdom
<- Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Mandane, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
Ye solid pillars of the Persian empire
Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Mandane, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
<- Arbaces, Guards II
Am I so much the hatred of all Persia
[N. 17 - Air]
Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Mandane, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
Arbaces, Guards II ->
Ah me! at poor Arbaces' parting
[N. 18 - Air]
Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
Mandane ->
See, loved Semira! / how heaven conspires the ruin of Arbaces.
Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Artabanes, Rimenes
Semira ->
O, Artabanes? / Lament not, sir, but leave complaints to me
Guards, Nobles, Artabanes, Rimenes
Artaxerxes ->
At length my soul has room t'indulge its grief
[N. 19 - Air]
Guards, Nobles, Rimenes
Artabanes ->