Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Æneas Overture [Alternate Version]

Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (Belinda, Chorus)

Dido: 'Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment'

Belinda & Dido: 'Grief increases by concealing'

Chorus: 'When monarchs unite how happy their state'

Dido & Belinda: 'Whence could so much virtue spring?'

Belinda, 2nd Woman & Chorus: 'Fear no danger to ensue'

Belinda, Aeneas, Dido: 'See, your Royal guest appears'

Chorus: 'Cupid only throws the dart'

Aeneas & Belinda: 'If not for mine, for Empire's sake'

Guitar's Chaconne

Chorus: 'To the hills and the vales'

The Triumphing Dance

Prelude for the Witches (Sorceress & 1st Witch): 'Wayward sisters'

Chorus: 'Harm's our delight'

Sorceress: 'The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate'

Chorus: 'Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!'

1st & 2nd Witches, Sorceress: 'Ruin'd ere the set of sun?'

Chorus: 'Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!' (2)

Sailor's Dance

1st & 2nd Witches: 'But, ere we this perform'

Chorus: In our deep vaulted cell

Echo Dance of Furies

Ritornelle

Belinda & Chorus: 'Thanks to these lonesome vales'

Guitar Dance, 2nd Woman: 'Oft she visits this lone mountain'

Aeneas & Dido: 'Behold, upon my bended spear'

Belinda & Chorus: 'Haste to town'

Spirit & Aeneas: 'Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command'

Ritornelle (2)

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. Chorus "Come away, fellow sailors" (First Sailor)

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Sailor's Dance

Sorceress, 1st & 2nd Witches: 'See, the flags and streamers curling'

Sorceress: 'Our next motion'

Chorus: 'Destruction's our delight'

The Witches' Dance

Dido, Belinda & Aeneas: 'Your counsel all is urg'd in vain'

Chorus: 'Great minds against themselves conspire'

Dido: 'Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me'

Dido: 'When I am laid in earth'

Chorus: 'With drooping wings ye Cupids come'