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An opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School at Chelsey by Young Gentlewomen. | An opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School at Chelsey by Young Gentlewomen. | ||
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The music composed by Mr. HENRY PURCELL | The music composed by Mr. HENRY PURCELL | ||
'''Dramatis Personae''' | '''Dramatis Personae''' | ||
DIDO | *DIDO | ||
BELINDA | *BELINDA | ||
TWO WOMEN | *TWO WOMEN | ||
AENEAS | *AENEAS | ||
SORCERESS | *SORCERESS | ||
ENCHANTRESSES | *ENCHANTRESSES | ||
SPIRIT of the Sorceress (Mercury) | *SPIRIT of the Sorceress (Mercury) | ||
Dido's train, Aeneas' train, Fairies, Sailors | Dido's train, Aeneas' train, Fairies, Sailors | ||
==Original text== | |||
===Overture=== | |||
1 - OVERTURE | |||
===Act the First=== | |||
<poem> | |||
Scene: The Palace | Scene: The Palace | ||
[enter Dido, Belinda and train] | [enter Dido, Belinda and train] | ||
2 - BELINDA | |||
Shake the cloud from off your brow, | Shake the cloud from off your brow, | ||
Fate your wishes does allow; | Fate your wishes does allow; | ||
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Grief should ne'er approach the fair. | Grief should ne'er approach the fair. | ||
3 - DIDO | |||
Ah! Belinda, I am prest | Ah! Belinda, I am prest | ||
With torment not to be Confest, | With torment not to be Confest, | ||
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Grief increases by concealing, | Grief increases by concealing, | ||
4 - DIDO | |||
Mine admits of no revealing. | Mine admits of no revealing. | ||
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Our Carthage to secure and Troy revive. | Our Carthage to secure and Troy revive. | ||
5 - CHORUS | |||
When monarchs unite, how happy their state, | When monarchs unite, how happy their state, | ||
They triumph at once o'er their foes and their fate. | They triumph at once o'er their foes and their fate. | ||
6 - DIDO | |||
Whence could so much virtue spring? | Whence could so much virtue spring? | ||
What storms, what battles did he sing? | What storms, what battles did he sing? | ||
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But ah! I fear, I pity his too much. | But ah! I fear, I pity his too much. | ||
7 - BELINDA AND SECOND WOMAN | |||
[Repeated by Chorus] | [Repeated by Chorus] | ||
Fear no danger to ensue, | Fear no danger to ensue, | ||
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[Aeneas enters with his train] | [Aeneas enters with his train] | ||
8 - BELINDA | |||
See, your Royal Guest appears, | See, your Royal Guest appears, | ||
How Godlike is the form he bears! | How Godlike is the form he bears! | ||
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The feeble stroke of Destiny. | The feeble stroke of Destiny. | ||
9 - CHORUS | |||
Cupid only throws the dart | Cupid only throws the dart | ||
That's dreadful to a warrior's heart, | That's dreadful to a warrior's heart, | ||
And she that wounds can only cure the smart. | And she that wounds can only cure the smart. | ||
10- AENEAS | |||
If not for mine, for Empire's sake, | If not for mine, for Empire's sake, | ||
Some pity on your lover take; | Some pity on your lover take; | ||
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A hero fall, and Troy once more expire. | A hero fall, and Troy once more expire. | ||
11- BELINDA | |||
Pursue thy conquest, Love; her eyes | Pursue thy conquest, Love; her eyes | ||
Confess the flame her tongue denies. | Confess the flame her tongue denies. | ||
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A DANCE. GITTARS CHACONY. (missing from score) | A DANCE. GITTARS CHACONY. (missing from score) | ||
12- CHORUS | |||
To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains | To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains | ||
To the musical groves and the cool shady fountains. | To the musical groves and the cool shady fountains. | ||
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Go revel, ye Cupids, the day is your own. | Go revel, ye Cupids, the day is your own. | ||
13- THE TRIUMPHING DANCE | |||
</poem> | |||
===Act the Second=== | |||
<poem> | |||
Scene [I]: The Cave | Scene [I]: The Cave | ||
[enter Sorceress] | [enter Sorceress] | ||
14- PRELUDE FOR THE WITCHES | |||
SORCERESS | SORCERESS | ||
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Say, Beldam, say what's thy will. | Say, Beldam, say what's thy will. | ||
15- CHORUS | |||
Harm's our delight and mischief all our skill. | Harm's our delight and mischief all our skill. | ||
16- SORCERESS | |||
The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate, | The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate, | ||
As we do all in prosp'rous state, | As we do all in prosp'rous state, | ||
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Depriv'd of fame, of life and love! | Depriv'd of fame, of life and love! | ||
17- CHORUS | |||
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! [etc.] | Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! [etc.] | ||
18- TWO WITCHES | |||
Ruin'd ere the set of sun? | Ruin'd ere the set of sun? | ||
Tell us, how shall this be done? | Tell us, how shall this be done? | ||
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And charge him sail tonight with all his fleet away. | And charge him sail tonight with all his fleet away. | ||
19- CHORUS | |||
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! [etc.] | Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! [etc.] | ||
[Enter a Drunken Sailor; a dance] | [Enter a Drunken Sailor; a dance] | ||
20- TWO WITCHES | |||
But ere we this perform, | But ere we this perform, | ||
We'll conjure for a storm | We'll conjure for a storm | ||
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And drive 'em back to court. | And drive 'em back to court. | ||
21- CHORUS [in the manner of an echo.] | |||
In our deep vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare, | In our deep vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare, | ||
Too dreadful a practice for this open air. | Too dreadful a practice for this open air. | ||
22- ECHO DANCE [Enchantresses and Fairies] | |||
Scene [II]: The Grove | Scene [II]: The Grove | ||
[enter Aeneas, Dido, Belinda, and their train] | [enter Aeneas, Dido, Belinda, and their train] | ||
23- RITORNELLE [Orchestra] | |||
24- BELINDA [Repeated by Chorus] | |||
Thanks to these lovesome vales, | Thanks to these lovesome vales, | ||
These desert hills and dales, | These desert hills and dales, | ||
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GITTER GROUND A DANCE (missing from score) | GITTER GROUND A DANCE (missing from score) | ||
25- SECOND WOMAN | |||
Oft she visits this lov'd mountain, | Oft she visits this lov'd mountain, | ||
Oft she bathes her in this fountain; | Oft she bathes her in this fountain; | ||
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[A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's women] | [A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's women] | ||
26- AENEAS | |||
Behold, upon my bending spear | Behold, upon my bending spear | ||
A monster's head stands bleeding, | A monster's head stands bleeding, | ||
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Rends the mountain oaks a sunder. | Rends the mountain oaks a sunder. | ||
27- BELINDA [Repeated by Chorus] | |||
Haste, haste to town, this open field | Haste, haste to town, this open field | ||
No shelter from the storm can yield. | No shelter from the storm can yield. | ||
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likeness of Mercury] | likeness of Mercury] | ||
28- SPIRIT | |||
Stay, Prince and hear great Jove's command; | Stay, Prince and hear great Jove's command; | ||
He summons thee this Night away. | He summons thee this Night away. | ||
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THE GROVES DANCE | THE GROVES DANCE | ||
</poem> | |||
===Act the Third=== | |||
<poem> | |||
Scene: The Ships | Scene: The Ships | ||
[enter the Sailors, the Sorceress, and her Enchantresses] | [enter the Sailors, the Sorceress, and her Enchantresses] | ||
29- PRELUDE | |||
FIRST SAILOR [Repeated by Chorus] | FIRST SAILOR [Repeated by Chorus] | ||
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But never intending to visit them more. | But never intending to visit them more. | ||
30- THE SAILORS' DANCE | |||
31- SORCERESS | |||
See the flags and streamers curling | See the flags and streamers curling | ||
Anchors weighing, sails unfurling. | Anchors weighing, sails unfurling. | ||
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The Queen's forsook, ho, ho! | The Queen's forsook, ho, ho! | ||
32- SORCERESS | |||
Our next Motion | Our next Motion | ||
Must be to storm her Lover on the Ocean! | Must be to storm her Lover on the Ocean! | ||
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Elissa bleeds tonight, and Carthage flames tomorrow. | Elissa bleeds tonight, and Carthage flames tomorrow. | ||
33- CHORUS | |||
Destruction's our delight | Destruction's our delight | ||
Delight our greatest sorrow! | Delight our greatest sorrow! | ||
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their way among the Enchantresses.] | their way among the Enchantresses.] | ||
34- The Witches' Dance | |||
[Enter Dido, Belinda and train] | [Enter Dido, Belinda and train] | ||
35- DIDO | |||
Your counsel all is urged in vain | Your counsel all is urged in vain | ||
To Earth and Heav'n I will complain! | To Earth and Heav'n I will complain! | ||
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Death must come when he is gone. | Death must come when he is gone. | ||
36- CHORUS | |||
Great minds against themselves conspire | Great minds against themselves conspire | ||
And shun the cure they most desire. | And shun the cure they most desire. | ||
37- DIDO | |||
[Cupids appear in the clouds o're her tomb] | [Cupids appear in the clouds o're her tomb] | ||
Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me, | Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me, | ||
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Death is now a welcome guest. | Death is now a welcome guest. | ||
38- When I am laid in earth, May my wrongs create | |||
No trouble in thy breast; | No trouble in thy breast; | ||
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate. | Remember me, but ah! forget my fate. | ||
39- CHORUS | |||
With drooping wings you Cupids come, | With drooping wings you Cupids come, | ||
To scatter roses on her tomb. | To scatter roses on her tomb. | ||
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Keep here your watch, and never part. | Keep here your watch, and never part. | ||
40- CUPIDS DANCE - Grove Scene (missing from score) | |||
</poem> | |||
[[Category:Text pages]] | [[Category:Text pages]] |
Revision as of 20:06, 4 May 2009
Musical settings
- Henry Purcell — Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 English SATB
General information
An opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School at Chelsey by Young Gentlewomen.
The words made by Mr. NATHUM TATE
The music composed by Mr. HENRY PURCELL
Dramatis Personae
- DIDO
- BELINDA
- TWO WOMEN
- AENEAS
- SORCERESS
- ENCHANTRESSES
- SPIRIT of the Sorceress (Mercury)
Dido's train, Aeneas' train, Fairies, Sailors
Original text
Overture
1 - OVERTURE
Act the First
Scene: The Palace
[enter Dido, Belinda and train]
2 - BELINDA
Shake the cloud from off your brow,
Fate your wishes does allow;
Empire growing,
Pleasures flowing,
Fortune smiles and so should you.
CHORUS
Banish sorrow, banish care,
Grief should ne'er approach the fair.
3 - DIDO
Ah! Belinda, I am prest
With torment not to be Confest,
Peace and I are strangers grown.
I languish till my grief is known,
Yet would not have it guest.
BELINDA
Grief increases by concealing,
4 - DIDO
Mine admits of no revealing.
BELINDA
Then let me speak; the Trojan guest
Into your tender thoughts has prest;
The greatest blessing Fate can give
Our Carthage to secure and Troy revive.
5 - CHORUS
When monarchs unite, how happy their state,
They triumph at once o'er their foes and their fate.
6 - DIDO
Whence could so much virtue spring?
What storms, what battles did he sing?
Anchises' valour mixt with Venus' charms
How soft in peace, and yet how fierce in arms!
BELINDA
A tale so strong and full of woe
Might melt the rocks as well as you.
What stubborn heart unmov'd could see
Such distress, such piety?
DIDO
Mine with storms of care opprest
Is taught to pity the distrest.
Mean wretches' grief can touch,
So soft, so sensible my breast,
But ah! I fear, I pity his too much.
7 - BELINDA AND SECOND WOMAN
[Repeated by Chorus]
Fear no danger to ensue,
The Hero Loves as well as you,
Ever gentle, ever smiling,
And the cares of life beguiling,
Cupid strew your path with flowers
Gather'd from Elysian bowers.
DANCE THIS CHORUS
THE BASKE
[Aeneas enters with his train]
8 - BELINDA
See, your Royal Guest appears,
How Godlike is the form he bears!
AENEAS
When, Royal Fair, shall I be blest
With cares of love and state distrest?
DIDO
Fate forbids what you pursue.
AENEAS
Aeneas has no fate but you!
Let Dido smile and I'll defy
The feeble stroke of Destiny.
9 - CHORUS
Cupid only throws the dart
That's dreadful to a warrior's heart,
And she that wounds can only cure the smart.
10- AENEAS
If not for mine, for Empire's sake,
Some pity on your lover take;
Ah! make not, in a hopeless fire
A hero fall, and Troy once more expire.
11- BELINDA
Pursue thy conquest, Love; her eyes
Confess the flame her tongue denies.
A DANCE. GITTARS CHACONY. (missing from score)
12- CHORUS
To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains
To the musical groves and the cool shady fountains.
Let the triumphs of love and of beauty be shown,
Go revel, ye Cupids, the day is your own.
13- THE TRIUMPHING DANCE
Act the Second
Scene [I]: The Cave
[enter Sorceress]
14- PRELUDE FOR THE WITCHES
SORCERESS
Wayward sisters, you that fright
The lonely traveller by night
Who, like dismal ravens crying,
Beat the windows of the dying,
Appear! Appear at my call, and share in the fame
Of a mischief shall make all Carthage flame.
Appear!
[enter Enchantresses]
FIRST WITCH
Say, Beldam, say what's thy will.
15- CHORUS
Harm's our delight and mischief all our skill.
16- SORCERESS
The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate,
As we do all in prosp'rous state,
Ere sunset, shall most wretched prove,
Depriv'd of fame, of life and love!
17- CHORUS
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! [etc.]
18- TWO WITCHES
Ruin'd ere the set of sun?
Tell us, how shall this be done?
SORCERESS
The Trojan Prince, you know, is bound
By Fate to seek Italian ground;
The Queen and he are now in chase.
FIRST WITCH
Hark! Hark! the cry comes on apace.
SORCERESS
But, when they've done, my trusty Elf
In form of Mercury himself
As sent from Jove shall chide his stay,
And charge him sail tonight with all his fleet away.
19- CHORUS
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! [etc.]
[Enter a Drunken Sailor; a dance]
20- TWO WITCHES
But ere we this perform,
We'll conjure for a storm
To mar their hunting sport
And drive 'em back to court.
21- CHORUS [in the manner of an echo.]
In our deep vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare,
Too dreadful a practice for this open air.
22- ECHO DANCE [Enchantresses and Fairies]
Scene [II]: The Grove
[enter Aeneas, Dido, Belinda, and their train]
23- RITORNELLE [Orchestra]
24- BELINDA [Repeated by Chorus]
Thanks to these lovesome vales,
These desert hills and dales,
So fair the game, so rich the sport,
Diana's self might to these woods resort.
GITTER GROUND A DANCE (missing from score)
25- SECOND WOMAN
Oft she visits this lov'd mountain,
Oft she bathes her in this fountain;
Here Actaeon met his fate,
Pursued by his own hounds,
And after mortal wounds
Discover'd, discover'd too late.
[A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's women]
26- AENEAS
Behold, upon my bending spear
A monster's head stands bleeding,
With tushes far exceeding
Those did Venus' huntsman tear.
DIDO
The skies are clouded, hark! how thunder
Rends the mountain oaks a sunder.
27- BELINDA [Repeated by Chorus]
Haste, haste to town, this open field
No shelter from the storm can yield.
[exeunt Dido and Belinda and train]
[The Spirit of the Sorceress descends to Aeneas in the
likeness of Mercury]
28- SPIRIT
Stay, Prince and hear great Jove's command;
He summons thee this Night away.
AENEAS
Tonight?
SPIRIT
Tonight thou must forsake this land,
The Angry God will brook no longer stay.
Jove commands thee, waste no more
In Love's delights, those precious hours,
Allow'd by th'Almighty Powers
To gain th' Hesperian shore
And ruined Troy restore.
AENEAS
Jove's commands shall be obey'd,
Tonight our anchors shall be weighed.
[Exit Spirit.]
But ah! what language can I try
My injur'd Queen to Pacify:
No sooner she resigns her heart,
But from her arms I'm forc'd to part.
How can so hard a fate be took?
One night enjoy'd, the next forsook.
Yours be the blame, ye gods! For I
Obey your will, but with more ease could die.
THE SORCERESS AND HER ENCHANTRESSES (CHORUS)
Then since our Charmes have sped,
A Merry Dance be led
By the Nymphs of Carthage to please us.
They shall all Dance to ease us,
A Dance that shall make the Spheres to wonder,
Rending those fair Groves asunder.
THE GROVES DANCE
Act the Third
Scene: The Ships
[enter the Sailors, the Sorceress, and her Enchantresses]
29- PRELUDE
FIRST SAILOR [Repeated by Chorus]
Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing.
Time and tide will admit no delaying.
Take a bouzy short leave of your nymphs on the shore,
And silence their mourning
With vows of returning
But never intending to visit them more.
30- THE SAILORS' DANCE
31- SORCERESS
See the flags and streamers curling
Anchors weighing, sails unfurling.
FIRST WITCH
Phoebe's pale deluding beams
Guilding more deceitful streams.
SECOND WITCH
Our plot has took,
The Queen's forsook.
TWO WITCHES
Elissa's ruin'd, ho, ho!
Our plot has took,
The Queen's forsook, ho, ho!
32- SORCERESS
Our next Motion
Must be to storm her Lover on the Ocean!
From the ruin of others our pleasures we borrow,
Elissa bleeds tonight, and Carthage flames tomorrow.
33- CHORUS
Destruction's our delight
Delight our greatest sorrow!
Elissa dies tonight and Carthage flames tomorrow.
[Jack of the the Lanthorn leads the Spaniards out of
their way among the Enchantresses.]
34- The Witches' Dance
[Enter Dido, Belinda and train]
35- DIDO
Your counsel all is urged in vain
To Earth and Heav'n I will complain!
To Earth and Heav'n why do I call?
Earth and Heav'n conspire my fall.
To Fate I sue, of other means bereft
The only refuge for the wretched left.
BELINDA
See, Madam, see where the Prince appears;
Such Sorrow in his looks he bears
As would convince you still he's true.
[enter Aeneas]
AENEAS
What shall lost Aeneas do?
How, Royal Fair, shall I impart
The God's decree, and tell you we must part?
DIDO
Thus on the fatal Banks of Nile,
Weeps the deceitful crocodile
Thus hypocrites, that murder act,
Make Heaven and Gods the authors of the Fact.
AENEAS
By all that's good ...
DIDO
By all that's good, no more!
All that's good you have forswore.
To your promis'd empire fly
And let forsaken Dido die.
AENEAS
In spite of Jove's command, I'll stay.
Offend the Gods, and Love obey.
DIDO
No, faithless man, thy course pursue;
I'm now resolv'd as well as you.
No repentance shall reclaim
The injur'd Dido's slighted flame.
For 'tis enough, whate'er you now decree,
That you had once a thought of leaving me.
AENEAS
Let Jove say what he will: I'll stay!
DIDO
Away, away! No, no, away!
AENEAS
No, no, I'll stay, and Love obey!
DIDO
To Death I'll fly
If longer you delay;
Away, away!.....
[Exit Aeneas]
But Death, alas! I cannot shun;
Death must come when he is gone.
36- CHORUS
Great minds against themselves conspire
And shun the cure they most desire.
37- DIDO
[Cupids appear in the clouds o're her tomb]
Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me,
On thy bosom let me rest,
More I would, but Death invades me;
Death is now a welcome guest.
38- When I am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
No trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
39- CHORUS
With drooping wings you Cupids come,
To scatter roses on her tomb.
Soft and Gentle as her Heart
Keep here your watch, and never part.
40- CUPIDS DANCE - Grove Scene (missing from score)