Acte I | |||
Ouverture : Grave – Allegro | |||
Scène 1 | |||
No 01. Chorus: Flush'd with conquest, fir'd by Mithra (Asiates) | |||
No 02. Recitative: Thus far, ye glorious partners of the war (Alexander/Jonathan) | |||
No 03. Air: Great Author of this harmony (Jonathan) | |||
No 04: Flourish of trumpets | |||
No 05. Recitative: And thus let happy Egypt's king (Ptolomee) | |||
No 06. Air: Thrice happy the monarch, whom nations content (Ptolomee) | |||
No 07. Recitative: Congratulation to our father\ | |||
No 08. Air: Hark! hark! he strikes the golden lyre (Cleopatra) | |||
No 09. Recitative: Be it my chief ambition there to rise (Alexander) | |||
No 10. Air: Fair virtue shall charm me (Alexander) | |||
No 11. Chorus: Ye happy nations round (Asiates) | |||
Scène 2 | |||
No 1. Recitative: My Jonathan (Alexander) | |||
No 2. Air: Oh, what resistless charms are giv'n (Alexander) | |||
Scène 3 | |||
No 1. Air: Subtle love, with fancy viewing (Cleopatra) | |||
No 2. Recitative: Aspasia, I know not what to call (Cleopatra) | |||
No 3. Air: How happy should we mortals prove (Cleopatra) | |||
No 4. Recitative: Check not the pleasing accents of thy tongue (Aspasia) | |||
No 5. Air: So shall the sweet attractive smile (Aspasia) | |||
No 6. Recitative: How blissful state! (Cleopatra/Aspasia) | |||
No 7. Duet: O what pleasures, past expressing (Cleopatra/Aspasia) | |||
Scène 4 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Why hangs this heavy gloom upon the brow (Jonathan/Alexander) | |||
No 2. Air: Heroes may boast their mighty deed (Alexander) | |||
Scène 5 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Ye sons of Judah, with high festival (Jonathan) | |||
No 2. Air with chorus: Great God, from whom all blessings spring (Jonathan/Israelites) | |||
Acte II | |||
Scène 1 | |||
No 1. Air: Kind hope, thou universal friend (Alexander) | |||
No 2. Recitative: Long, long and happy live the king! (Jonathan/Alexander) | |||
No 3. Air: O Mithra, with thy brightest beams (Alexander) | |||
No 4. Recitative: Stay, my dread sovereign (Sycophant courtier/Alexander/Jonathan) | |||
No 5. Air: Mighty love now calls to arm (Alexander) | |||
No 6. Air: Hateful man! thy sland'rous tongue (Jonathan) | |||
No 7. Chorus: O calumny, on virtue waiting (Israelites) | |||
Scène 2 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Ah! whence these dire forebodings of the mind? (Cleopatra) | |||
No 2. Air: Tossed from thought to thought I rove (Cleopatra) | |||
No 3. Recitative: Give to the winds, fair princess, these vain doubts (Aspasia) | |||
No 4. Air: Love, glory, ambition, whate'er can inspire (Aspasia) | |||
Scène 3 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Thus far my wishes thrive (Ptolomee) | |||
No 2. Air: Virtue, thou ideal name (Ptolomee) | |||
Scène 4 | |||
No 1. Accompagnato: Ye happy people, with loud accents speak (Jonathan) | |||
No 2. Soli with chorus: Triumph Hymen in the pair | |||
No 3. Recitative: Glad time, at length, hath reach'd the happy point (Alexander/Cleopatra) | |||
No 4. Duet: Hail wedded love, mysterious law! (Alexander/Cleopatra) | |||
No 5. Chorus: Hymen, fair Urania's son (Asiates) | |||
Acte III | |||
Introduction: Sinfonia | |||
Scène 1 | |||
No 1. Recitative: 'Tis true, instinctive nature seldom points (Cleopatra) | |||
No 2. Air with chorus: Here amid the shady woods (Cleopatra/Ruffians) | |||
Scène 2 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Ah! was it not my Cleopatra's voice? (Alexander) | |||
No 2. Air: Pow'rful guardians of all nature (Alexander) | |||
No 3. Recitative: Treach'ry, O king, unheard of treachery (Jonathan/Alexander/Aspasia) | |||
No 4. Air: Fury, with red sparkling eyes (Alexander) | |||
No 5. Recitative: Gods! can there be a more afflicting sight (Aspasia) | |||
No 6. Air: Strange reverse of human fate (Aspasia) | |||
No 7. Recitative: May he return with laurel'd victory (Jonathan) | |||
No 8. Air: To God who made the radiant sun (Jonathan) | |||
No 9. Chorus: Sun, moon, and stars, and all ye Host of Heav'n (Israelites) | |||
Scène 3 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Yes he was false, my daughter, false to you (Jonathan/Cleopatra) | |||
No 2. Accompagnato: Ungrateful child, by ev'ry sacred pow'r (Ptolomee) | |||
Scène 4 | |||
No 1. Accompagnato: Shall Cleopatra ever smile again? (Cleopatra) | |||
No 2. Recitative: Ungrateful tidings to the royal ear (Messenger) | |||
No 3. Air: O sword, and thou, all-daring hand (Ptolomee) | |||
No 3. Air: O take me from this hateful light (Cleopatra) | |||
No 4. Recitative: Forgive, O queen, the messenger of ill! (Second messenger/Cleopatra) | |||
No 5. Accompagnato: Calm thou my soul (Cleopatra) | |||
No 6. Air: Convey me to some peaceful shore (Cleopatra) | |||
Scène 5 | |||
No 1. Recitative: Mysterious are thy ways, O Providence! (Jonathan) | |||
No 2. Chorus with solo: Ye servants of th' eternal King (Jonathan/Israelites) |