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| Composer(s): | Henry Purcell (16 Jul 1659 - 21 Nov 1695)
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| Work identifier: | M1104
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| Real Name: | Dido and Aeneas
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| Display Name: | Dido and Aeneas
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| Work/Opus: | Z. 626
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| Composed: | c. 1689
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| Genre: | Opera + Operetta
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| Genre Type: | Opera
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| Period: | Baroque
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| Instrumentation: | Continuo
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| Librettist(s): | N. Tate
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| Performance Timing (guide): | 1'2'' (approx.)
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| Mvt. 1 | Act I Scene 1 - Overture (String Group) |
| Mvt. 2 | Act I Scene 1 - Aria: 'Shake the cloud' (Soprano) |
| Mvt. 3 | Act I Scene 1 - Chorus: 'Banish sorrow...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 4 | Act I Scene 1 - Aria: 'Ah! Belinda...' (Soprano, String Group) |
| Mvt. 5 | Act I Scene 1 - Recit: 'Grief increases by concealing...' (Soprano) |
| Mvt. 6 | Act I Scene 1 - Chorus: 'When monarchs unite...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 7 | Act I Scene 1 - Recit: 'Whence could so much virtue spring?' (Soprano) |
| Mvt. 8 | Act I Scene 1 - Duet: 'Fear no danger to ensue...' (Soprano, Chorus) |
| Mvt. 9 | Act I Scene 1 - Recit: 'See, your royal guest appears...' (Soprano, Baritone) |
| Mvt. 10 | Act I Scene 1 - Chorus: 'Cupid only throws the dart...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 11 | Act I Scene 1 - Recit: 'If not for mine...' (Baritone) |
| Mvt. 12 | Act I Scene 1 - Aria: 'Pursue thy conquest, Love...' (Soprano) |
| Mvt. 13 | Act I Scene 1 - Chorus: 'To the hills and the vales...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 14 | Act I Scene 1 - The Triumphing Dance (String Group) |
| Mvt. 15 | Act I Scene 2 - Recit: 'Wayward sisters' (Soprano, Alto, String Group) |
| Mvt. 16 | Act I Scene 2 - Chorus: 'Harm's our delight...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 17 | Act I Scene 2 - Recit: 'The Queen of Carthage...' (Alto, Chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 18 | Act I Scene 2 - Recit: 'Ruin'd ere the set of sun?' (Soprano, Alto, String Group) |
| Mvt. 19 | Act I Scene 2 - Duet: 'But ere we this perform...' (Soprano, Alto) |
| Mvt. 20 | Act I Scene 2 - Chorus: 'In our deep vaulted cell...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 21 | Act I Scene 2 - Echo Dance of Furies (String Group) |
| Mvt. 22 | Act II - Ritornelle (String Group) |
| Mvt. 23 | Act II - Aria: 'Thanks to these lonesome vales...' (Soprano, Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 24 | Act II - Aria: 'Oft she visits this loved mountain...' (Soprano, String Group) |
| Mvt. 25 | Act II - Recit: 'Behold, upon my bending spear...' (Soprano, Baritone, String Group) |
| Mvt. 26 | Act II - Aria: 'Haste, haste to town...' (Soprano, Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 27 | Act II - Recit: 'Stay, Prince, and hear...' (Alto, Baritone) |
| Mvt. 28 | Act III - Aria and Chorus: 'Come away, fellow sailors...' (Tenor, Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 29 | Act III - The Sailors Dance (String Group) |
| Mvt. 30 | Act III - Recit: 'See, see the flags...' (Soprano, Alto) |
| Mvt. 31 | Act III - Aria: 'Our next motion...' (Alto) |
| Mvt. 32 | Act III - Chorus: 'Destruction's our delight...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 33 | Act III - The Witches Dance (String Group) |
| Mvt. 34 | Act III - Recit: 'Your counsel all is urg'd in vain...' (Soprano, Baritone) |
| Mvt. 35 | Act III - Chorus: 'Great minds against themselves conspire...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 36 | Act III - Recit: 'Thy hand Belinda...' (Soprano) |
| Mvt. 37 | Act III - Aria: 'When I am laid in earth...' (Soprano, String Group) |
| Mvt. 38 | Act III - Chorus: 'With drooping wings...' (Mixed chorus, String Group) |
| Mvt. 39 | Dido's Lament (Continuo) |