Theodora

Theodora, HWV 68: Overture

Theodora, HWV 68: Trio

Theodora, HWV 68: Courante

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Recitative “’Tis Diocletian’s Natal Day” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Air “Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Chorus “And Draw a Blessing Down” (The Heathens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Recitative “Vouchsafe, Dread Sir” (Didymus, Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Air “Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Chorus “For Ever Thus Stands Fix’d the Doom” (The Heathens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Recitative “Most Cruel Edict” (Didymus, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Air “The Raptur’d Soul” (Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Recitative “I Know Thy Virtues” (Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Air “Descend, Kind Pity, Heav’nly Guest” (Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Recitative “Though Hard, My Friends” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Air “Fond, Flatt’ring World, Adieu” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Recitative “O Bright Example of All Goodness” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Air “Bane of Virtue” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Chorus “Come, Mighty Father” (The Christians)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Recitative “Fly, Fly, My Brethren” (Messenger, Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Air “As with Rosy Steps the Morn” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Chorus “All Pow’r in Heav’n Above” (The Christians)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Recitative “Mistaken Wretches!” (Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Air “Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly” (Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Recitative “Deluded Mortal!” (Theodora, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Accompagnato “Oh, Worse Than Death Indeed” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Air “Angels, Ever Bright and Fair” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Recitative “Unhappy, Happy Crew!” (Didymus, Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Air “Kind Heav’n, If Virtue Be Thy Care” (Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Recitative “O Love, How Great Thy Pow’r!” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Chorus “Go, Gen’rous, Pious Youth” (The Christians)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Recitative “Ye Men of Antioch” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Chorus “Queen of Summer, Queen of Love” (The Heathens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Air “Wide Spread His Name” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Recitative “Return, Septimius, to the Stubborn Maid” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Chorus “Venus, Laughing from the Skies” (The Heathens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Symphony

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Recitative “O Thou Bright Sun” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air “With Darkness Deep, as is My Woe” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Recitative “But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air “Oh That I on Wings Could Rise” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Recitative “Long Have I Known” (Didymus, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Air “Though the Honours” (Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Recitative “Oh, Save Her Then” (Didymus, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Air “Deeds of Kindness to Display” (Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 4: Recitative “The Clouds Begin to Veil” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 4: Air “Defend Her, Heav’n!” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Or Lull’d With Grief” (Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Air “Sweet Rose and Lily” (Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Oh, Save Me, Heav’n” (Theodora, Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Air “The Pilgrim’s Home” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Accompagnato “Forbid It, Heav’n!” (Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Or Say, What Right Have I to Take” (Didymus, Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Duet “To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth” (Theodora, Didymus)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 6: Recitative “’Tis Night” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 6: Chorus “He Saw the Lovely Youth” (The Heathens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 1: Air “Lord, to Thee Each Night and Day” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Recitative “But See, the Good, the Virtuous Didymus” (Irene, Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Air “When Sunk in Anguish and Despair” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Theodora and Chorus “Blest Be the Hand, and Blest the Pow’r” (Theodora, The Christians)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “Undaunted in the Court” (Messenger, Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato “O My Irene” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “Stay Me Not, Dear Friend” (Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Duet “Whither, Princess, Do You Fly” (Irene, Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “She’s Gone” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Air “New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding on” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 4: Recitative “Is It a Christian Virtue” (Valens, Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “Be That My Doom” (Theodora, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “From Virtue Springs Each Gen’rous Deed” (Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray’r” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “’Tis Kind, My Friends” (Didymus, Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Chorus “How Strange Their Ends, Yet How Glorious” (The Heathens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “On Me Your Frowns” (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “Ye Ministers of Justice” (Valens)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 6: Recitative “And Must Such Beauty Suffer?” (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 6: Air and Duet “Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing” (Didymus, Theodora)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 7: Recitative “Ere This, Their Doom is Past” (Irene)

Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 7: Chorus “O Love Divine” (The Christians)