didonetenée:structure
Didon et Enée
: Structure
Opera,
Dido and Aeneas
(1689)
Movt. 1, Overture
Act 1
Movt. 2a, Aria, "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
Movt. 2b, Chorus, "Banish sorrow, banish care"
Movt. 3, Aria and Ritornello, "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"
Movt. 4, Duet (dialogue), "Grief increases by concealing"
Movt. 5, Chorus, "When monarchs unite"
Movt. 6, Trio (dialogue), "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
Movt. 7, Duet and Chorus, "Fear no danger"
Movt. 8, Trio (dialogue), "See, your royal guest appears"
Movt. 9, Chorus (dialogue), Cupid only throws the dart"
Movt. 10, Aria, "If not for mine"
Movt. 11, Prelude and Aria, "Pursue thy conquest, love"
Movt. 12, Chorus, "To the hills and the vales"
Movt. 13, Dance - The triumphing dance
Act 2
Movt. 14, Prelude and Aria, "Wayward sisters"
Movt. 15, Chorus, "Harm's our delight"
Movt. 16, Aria, "The queen of Carthage, whom we hate"
Movts. 17 - 20, Chorus and Dialogue, "Ho ho ho!"
Movt. 21, Chorus, "In our deep vaulted cell"
Movt. 22, "Echo dance of the furies"
Movt. 23, Ritornello
Movt. 24a - b, Aria and Chorus, "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
Movt. 24c, Dance - Gittar ground
Movt. 25a, Aria, "Oft she visits this lone mountain"
Movt. 25b, Ritornello, "A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's Women"
Movt. 26, Aria, "Behold, upon my bended spear"
Movt. 27, Aria and Chorus, "Haste, haste to town"
Movt. 28, Duet (dialogue), "Stay, Prince"
Act 3
Movt. 29, Prelude and Aria, "Come away, fellow sailors"
Movt. 30, Dance - The sailor's dance
Movt. 31, Trio (dialogue), "See the flags and the streamers curling"
Movt. 32, Aria, "Our next motion"
Movt. 33, Chorus, " Destruction's our delight"
Movt. 34, Dance - The witches' dance
Movt. 35a, Aria, "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain"
Movt. 35b, Trio (dialogue), "See, madam where the Prince appears"
Movt. 36, Chorus, "Great minds against themselves conspire"
Movt. 37, Aria, "Thy hand Belinda, darkness shades me"
Movt. 38, Ground, Aria and Ritornello, "When I am laid in earth"
Movt. 39, Chorus, "With drooping wings"
Movt. 40, Epilogue, "All that we know the angels do above"