THEODORA (ORATORIO)

HANDEL / BAROCKORCHESTER FRANKFURT / WIELAND

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[Disc 1]
1. Overture
2. Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: Tis Dioclesians natal day (Valens)
3. Act I Scene 1: Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go (Valens)
4. Act I Scene 1: Chorus: And draw a blessing down (Chorus of Heathens)
5. Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: Vouchsafe, dread Sir (Didymus, Valens)
6. Act I Scene 1: Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire (Valens)
7. Act I Scene 1: Chorus: For ever thus stands fixd the doom (Chorus of Heathens)
8. Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: Most cruel edict! (Didymus)
9. Act I Scene 2: Air: The rapturd soul (Didymus)
10. Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: I know thy virtues, and ask not thy faith (Septimius)
11. Act I Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Septimius)
12. Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Though hard, my friends (Theodora)
13. Act I Scene 3: Air: Fond flattring world, adieu! (Theodora)
14. Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Oh bright example of all goodness (Irene)
15. Act I Scene 3: Air: Bane of virtue, nurse of passions (Irene)
16. Act I Scene 3: Chorus: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord (Chorus of Christians)
17. Act I Scene 4: Recitativo: Fly, fly my brethren (Messenger, Irene)
18. Act I Scene 4: Air: As With Rosy Steps (Irene)
19. Act I Scene 4: Chorus: All powr in Heaven above, or earth beneath (Chorus of Christians)
20. Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Mistaken wretches, why thus blind to fate (Septimius)
21. Act I Scene 5: Air: Dread the fruits of Christian folly (Septimius)
22. Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Deluded mortal! (Theodora, Septimius)
23. Act I Scene 5: Accompagnato: Oh worse than death indeed! (Theodora)
24. Act I Scene 5: Air: Angels, ever bright and fair (Theodora)
25. Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: Unhappy, happy crew! (Didymus, Irene)
26. Act I Scene 6: Accompagnato and Air: Kind Heaven, if virtue be thy care (Didymus)
27. Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: Oh Love, how great thy powr! (Irene)
28. Act I Scene 6: Chorus: Go, genrous pious youth! (Chorus of Christians)
[Disc 2]
1. Act II Scene 1: Recitativo: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp (Valens)
2. Act II Scene 1: Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love (Chorus of Heathens)
3. Act II Scene 1: Air: Wide spread his Name (Valens)
4. Act II Scene 1: Recitativo: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid (Valens)
5. Act II Scene 1: Chorus: Venus laughing from the skies (Chorus of Heathens)
6. Act II Scene 2: Symphony
7. Act II Scene 2: Recitativo: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays (Theodora)
8. Act II Scene 2: Air: With darkness deep (Theodora)
9. Act II Scene 2: Symphony
10. Act II Scene 2: Recitativo: But why art thou disquieted, my soul? (Theodora)
11. Act II Scene 2: Air: Oh that I on wings could rise (Theodora)
12. Act II Scene 3: Recitativo: Long have I known thy friendly social soul (Didymus, Septimius)
13. Act II Scene 3: Air: Though the honours, that Flora and Venus receive from the Romans (Septimius)
14. Act II Scene 3: Recitativo: Oh save her then, or give me powr (Didymus, Septimius)
15. Act II Scene 3: Air: Deeds of kindness to display, pity suing (Didymus)
16. Act II Scene 4: Recitativo: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere (Irene)
17. Act II Scene 4: Air: Defend her Heaven! (Irene)
18. Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Or lulld with grief or rapt her soul to heaven (Didymus)
19. Act II Scene 5: Air: Sweet Rose and Lily (Didymus)
20. Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Oh save me, Heaven (Theodora, Didymus)
21. Act II Scene 5: Air: The pilgrims home (Theodora)
22. Act II Scene 5: Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heaven! (Didymus)
23. Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Or say, what right have I to take what just reflection (Didymus, Theodora)
24. Act II Scene 5: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of worth (Theodora, Didymus)
25. Act II Scene 6: Recitativo: Tis night; but nights sweet blessing (Irene)
26. Act II Scene 6: Chorus: He saw the lovely youth, deaths early prey (Chorus of Christians)
[Disc 3]
1. Act III Scene 1: Air: Lord, to Thee each night and day (Irene)
2. Act III Scene 2: Recitativo: But see, the good, the virtuous Didymus (Irene, Theodora)
3. Act III Scene 2: Air: When sunk in anguish and despair (Theodora)
4. Act III Scene 2: Chorus: Blest be the hand, and blest the powr (Theodora, Chorus of Christians)
5. Act III Scene 3: Recitativo and Accompagnato: Undaunted in the court stands Didymus (Messenger, Irene, Theodora)
6. Act III Scene 3: Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly? (Irene, Theodora)
7. Act III Scene 3: Recitativo: Shes gone, disdaining liberty and life (Irene)
8. Act III Scene 3: Air: New scenes of joy (Irene)
9. Act III Scene 4: Recitativo: Is it a Christian virtue then (Valens, Didymus) - Scene 5: Be that my doom! (Theodora, Septimius)
10. Act III Scene 5: Air: From virtue springs each genrous deed (Septimius)
11. Act III Scene 5: Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless prayr (Valens)
12. Act III Scene 5: Recitativo: Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still (Didymus, Theodora)
13. Act III Scene 5: Chorus: How strange their ends (Chorus of Heathens)
14. Act III Scene 5: Recitativo: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
15. Act III Scene 5: Air: Ye ministers of justice, lead them hence (Valens)
16. Act III Scene 6: Recitativo: And must such beauty suffer? (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
17. Act III Scene 6: Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing (Didymus, Theodora)
18. Act III Scene 7: Recitativo: Ere this their doom is past (Irene)
19. Act III Scene 7: Chorus: Oh love devine, thou source of fame (Chorus of Christians)

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