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Semele

[N. 27 - Symphony]

A pleasant country, the prospect is terminated by a beautiful mountain adorn'd with woods and water-falls.

(Juno and Iris descend in different machines. Juno in a chariot drawn by peacocks; Iris on a rainbow; they alight and meet.)

[N. 28 - Recitative]

Iris, impatient of thy stay

[N. 29 - Air]

[N. 30 - Recitative]

No more, I'll hear no more!

[N. 31 - Accompagnato]

Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy!

[N. 32 - Recitative]

Hear, mighty queen, while I recount

[N. 33 - Accompagnato]

With adamant the gates are barr'd

[N. 34 - Air]

An apartment in the palace of Semele.

[N. 35 - Air]

(A dance of Zephyrs, after which Semele awakes, and rises.)

[N. 36 - Air]

[N. 37 - Recitative]

Sleep forsaking

[N. 38 - Recitative]

Let me not another moment

[N. 39 - Air]

[N. 40 - Recitative]

You are mortal, and require

[N. 41 - Air]

[N. 42 - Air]

[N. 43 - Recitative]

Ah me! / Why sighs my Semele?

[N. 44 - Air]

[N. 45 - Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs]

[N. 46 - Recitative ]

By my command

[N. 47 - Air]

An open country.

[N. 48 - Recitative]

Dear sister, how was your passage hither?

[N. 49 - Air]

[N. 50 - Duet]

[N. 51 - Chorus of Nymphs and Swains]

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