Partie I | ||
1. Overture | ||
2. Accompagnato: See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain (Pleasure) | ||
3. Aria: Come, blooming boy, with me repair (Pleasure) | ||
4. Aria: There the brisk sparkling nectar repair (Pleasure) | ||
5a. Solo: While for thy arms that Beauty glows (Pleasure) | ||
5b. Chorus: Seize, seize these blessings, blooming boy! (Chorus) | ||
5c. Recitative: Away, mistaken wretch, away! (Virtue) | ||
6a. Aria: This manly youth's exalted mind (Virtue) | ||
6b. Recitative: Rise youth! exalt thyself and me (Virtue) | ||
7a. Aria: Go, assert thy heav'nly race (Virtue) | ||
7b. Recitative: In peace, in war, pursue thy country's good (Virtue) | ||
8a. Solo: So shalt thou gain immortal praise (Virtue) | ||
8b. Chorus: The golden trump of Fame | ||
8c. Recitative: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage? (Pleasure) | ||
9a. Solo: Turn thee, youth, to joy and love (Pleasure) | ||
9b. Chorus: Why, ah why this fond delay? | ||
Partie II | ||
10a. Recitative: Short is my way (Pleasure, Hercules) | ||
10b. Aria: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (Hercules) | ||
11a. Aria: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (an Attendant of Pleasure's) | ||
11b. Recitative: Oh! whither, Reason, dost thou fly? (Hercules) | ||
12. Trio: Where shall I go? (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules) | ||
13. Accompagnato: Mount, mount the steep ascent! (Virtue) | ||
14. Aria: Mount, mount the steep ascent (Virtue) | ||
15a. Chorus: Arise, arise! | ||
15b. Recitative: The sounds breathe fire celestial (Hercules) | ||
16. Aria: Lead, Goddess, lead the way (Hercules) | ||
17. Chorus: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode |