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1. THE FAIRY QUEEN, Opera in 5 Acts, Z. 629. Libretto by an anonymous author after William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. First performed in the spring of 1692 at the Dorset Garden Theatre, London - First Music: 1. Prelude |
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2. First Music: 2. Hornpipe |
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3. Second Music: 3. Air |
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4. Second Music: 4. Rondo |
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5. Second Music: 5. Overture |
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6. ACT I. 6. Duet Soprano Bass: 'Come come come let us leave the town' |
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7. 7. Scene of the Drunken Poet: 'Fill up the bowl then fill up the bowl then'¦' Blind Poet First Fairy Chorus Second Fairy |
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8. 8. First Act Tune: Jig |
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9. ACT II. 9. Tenor Solo: 'Come all ye songsters of the sky' |
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10. 10. Prelude |
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11. 11. Chorus: 'May the God of Wit inspire' 12. Echo |
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12. 13. Chorus: 'Now join your warbling voices all' Soprano Chorus: 'Sing while we trip it upon the green' |
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13. Enter Night Mystery Secrecy and Sleep and their Attendants. 14. Night: 'See even Night herself is here' |
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14. 15. Entrance of Mystery: 'I am come to lock all fast' |
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15. 16. Entrance of Secrecy: 'One charming night gives more delight' |
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16. 17. Entrance of Sleep: 'Hush no more be silent all' |
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17. 18. Dance for the followers of Night |
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18. 19. Second Act Tune: Air |
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19. ACT III. 20. Soprano Solo Chorus: 'If Love's a sweet passion' |
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20. 21. Symphony while the Swans come forward |
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21. 22. Dance for the Fairies |
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22. 23. Dance for the Green Men |
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23. 24. Soprano Solo: 'Ye gentle spirits of the air appear' |
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24. 25. Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa: 'Now the Maids and the Men are making of Hay' |
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25. 26. A Nymph: 'When I have often heard young maids complaining' |
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26. 27. Dance for the Haymakers |
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27. 28. Alto Solo Chorus: 'A thousand thousand ways we'll find' |
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28. 29. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe |
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1. ACT IV. 30. Symphony |
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2. 31. An Attendant Chorus: 'Now the Night is chased away' 32. 'Let the fifes and the clarions' |
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3. 33. Entry of Phoebus |
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4. 34. Phoebus: 'When a cruel long winter' 35. Chorus: 'Hail Great parent of us all' |
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5. 36. Spring: 'Thus the ever grateful Spring' |
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6. 37. Summer: 'Here's the Summer sprightly gay' |
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7. 38. Autumn: 'See my many coloured fields' |
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8. 39. Winter: 'Next Winter comes slowly' Chorus: 'Hail Great parent of us all' |
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9. 40. Fourth Act Tune: Air |
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10. 41. Prelude |
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11. 42. Juno: 'Thrice happy lovers' |
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12. 43. The Plaint: 'O let me ever ever weep' |
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13. 44. Entry Dance |
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14. ACT V. 45. Symphony |
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15. 46. A Chinese Man: 'Thus the gloomy world' |
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16. 47. A Chinese Woman: 'Thus happy and free' Chorus: 'Thus wildly we live' |
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17. 48. A Chinese Man: 'Yes Daphne' |
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18. 49. Monkeys' Dance |
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19. 50. A Chinese Woman: 'Hark how all things with one sound rejoice' |
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20. 51. A Chinese Woman: 'Hark the echoing air a triumph sings' Chorus: 'Hark Hark' |
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21. 52. Two Chinese Women: 'Sure the dull God of Marriage does not hear' Chorus: 'Hymen appear' |
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22. 53. Prelude 54. Hymen: 'See see I obey' |
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23. 55. Two Chinese Women: 'Turn then thine eyes upon those glories here' |
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24. 56. Hymen: 'My torch indeed will from such brightness shine' |
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25. 57. Two Chinese Women Hymen Chorus: 'They shall be as happy as they are fair' Chinese woman and man dance |
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26. 58. Chaconne |
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27. 59. Chorus: 'They shall be as happy as they are fair' |
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