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Dido and Aeneas

[Ouverture]

Scene: the palace

The palace

<- Dido, Belinda, Train, Second woman

[N. 1 - Scena and Chorus]

Shake the cloud from off your brow

[N. 2 – Song]

Dido
Ah! Belinda, I am prest

[N. 3 - Recitative]

Grief increasing by concealing

[N. 4 - Chorus]

Chorus
When monarchs unite how happy their state

[N. 5 - Recitative]

Whence could so much virtue spring?

[N. 6 - Duet and Chorus]

Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus
Fear no danger to ensue

(Dance this chorus.)

Scene: the baske

The baske.

Belinda, Dido
 
Belinda, Dido
<- Aeneas, Train

[N. 7 - Recitative]

See, your royal guest appears

[N. 8 - Chorus]

Chorus
Cupid only throws the dart

[N. 9 - Recitative]

If not for mine, for empire's sake

[N. 10 - Air]

Belinda
Pursue thy conquest, love; her eyes

(A dance.)

[N. 11 - Chorus]

Chorus
To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains

[N. 12 - The triumphing dance]

(A dance.)

Locandina The Prologue Scene: the sea Scene: the grove First Act Scene: the palace Scene: the baske Second Act Scene: the cave Scene: the grove Third Act Scene: the ships