Détail de "Hercules"


Acte I
1. Overtura
2. Menuetto
Scène 1
1. Recitativo accompagnato : See, with what sad dejection in her looks (Lichas)
2. Aria : No longer, Fate, relentless frown (Lichas)
3. Recitativo accompagnato : O Hercules ! Why art thou absent from me ? (Dejanira)
4. Aria : The world, when day's career is run (Dejanira)
5. Recitativo : Princess ! Be comforted, and hope the best (Lichas, Dejanira)
Scène 2
1. Aria : I feel, I feel the God, he swells my breast ! (Hyllus)
2. Recitativo : He said, the sacred fury left his breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)
3. Aria : There in myrtle shades reclined (Dejanira)
4. Recitativo : Despair not
5. Aria : Where congealed the northern streams (Hyllus)
6. Chorus : O filial piety ! O gen'rous love !
Scène 3
1. Recitativo : Banish your fears ! (Lichas, Dejanira)
2. Aria : Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away (Dejanira)
3. Recitativo : A train of captives, red with honest wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
4. Aria : The smiling hours, a joyful train (Lichas)
5. Chorus : Let none despair, relief may come though late
Scène 4
1. March
2. Recitativo : Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee (Hercules, Iole)
3. Aria : My father ! Ah ! Methinks I see (Iole)
Scène 5
1. Recitativo : Now farewell, arms ! (Hercules)
2. Aria : The god of battle quits the bloody field (Hercules)
3. Recitativo : Ah me ! How soon the flatterer hope (Iole)
4. Aria : Daughter of gods, bright liberty ! (Iole)
5. Chorus : Crown with festal pomp the day
Acte II
Sinfonia
Scène 1
1. Recitativo : Why was I born a princess (Iole)
2. Aria : How blest the maid, ordained to dwell (Iole)
Scène 2
1. Recitativo : It must be so ! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)
2. Aria : When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Dejanira)
3. Recitativo : Whence this unjust suspicion ? (Iole, Dejanira)
4. Aria : Ah ! Think what ills the jealous prove (Iole)
5. Recitativo : It is too sure that Hercules is false (Dejanira)
Scène 3
1. Recitativo : In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise ! (Dejanira, Lichas)
2. Chorus : Jealousy ! Infernal pest
Scène 4
1. Recitativo : She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe (Hyllus, Iole)
2. Aria : Banish love from thy breast (Iole)
3. Recitativo : Forgive a passion, which resistless sways
4. Aria : From celestial seats descending (Hyllus)
5. Chorus : Wanton god of amorous fires
Scène 5
1. Recitativo : Yes, I congratulate your titles (Dejanira, Hercules)
2. Aria : Alcides' name in latest story (Hercules)
3. Recitativo : O glorious pattern of heroic deds ! (Dejanira)
4. Aria : Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Dejanira)
5. Recitativo : You are deceived ! Some villain has belied (Hercules, Dejanira)
Scène 6
1. Recitativo : Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules ! (Hercules, Dejanira)
2. Aria : Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Dejanira)
Scène 7
1. Aria : As stars, taht rise and disappear (Lichas)
2. Recitativo : But see, the princess Iole. Retire ! (Dejanira, Iole)
Scène 8
1. Duet : Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r (Dejanira, Iole)
2. Recitativo : Father of Hercules, great Jove (Dejanira)
3. Chorus Love and Hymen, and in hand
Acte III
Sinfonia
Scène 1
1. Recitativo : Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief (Lichas, First Trachinian)
2. Aria : Oh scene of unexampled woe (Lichas)
3. Chorus : Tyrants now no more shall dread
Scène 2
1. Recitativo accompagnato : O Jove ! What land is this (Hercules)
2. Recitativo : Great Jove ! Relieve his pains ! (Hyllus, Hercules)
3. Aria : Let not fame the tidings spread (Hyllus)
Scène 3
Recitativo accompagnato : Where shall I fly ? (Dejanira)
Scène 4
1. Recitativo : Lo ! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin ! (Dejanira, Iole)
2. Aria : My breast with tender pity swells (Iole)
Scène 5
1. Recitativo : Princess, rejoice ! Whose heav'n-directed hand (Prêtre de Jupiter, Dejanira)
2. Aria : He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky (Lichas)
3. Recitativo : Words are too faint to speak the warring passions (Dejanira, Prêtre deJupiter, Hyllus, Iole)
4. Duet : O prince, whose virtues all admire (Iole, Hyllus)
5. Recitativo : Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime (Prêtre de Jupiter)
6. Chorus : To him your grateful notes of praise belong