Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas: Overture

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment” (Dido)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “When monarchs unite, how happy their state” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Belinda, Dido)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “See, your royal guest appears” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” (Aeneas, Belinda)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. The Triumphing Dance

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Wayward sisters, you that fright” (Sorceress, First Witch) / “Harm’s our delight” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate” (Sorceress) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Ruined ere the set of sun?” (Sorceress, Two Witches) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus in the Manner of an Echo)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. Echo Dance of Furies

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. Ritornelle

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Second Woman)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)

Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Aeneas, Spirit)