Handel: Theodora, HWV 68

Overture

Trio

Courante

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1, Scene 1

Recitative. "Tis Diocletian’s Natal Day" (Valens)

Air. "Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go" (Valens)

Chorus. "And Draw a Blessing Down" (Chorus)

Recitative. "Vouchsafe, Dread Sir" (Didymus, Valens)

Air. "Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire" (Valens)

Chorus. "For Ever Thus Stands Fix’d the Doom" (Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1, Scene 2

Air. "The Raptur’d Soul" (Didymus)

Recitative. "I Know Thy Virtues" (Septimius)

Air. "Descend, Kind Pity, Heav’nly Guest" (Septimius)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1, Scene 3

Recitative. "Though Hard, My Friends" (Theodora)

Air. "Fond, Flatt’ring World, Adieu" (Theodora)

Recitative. "O Bright Example of All Goodness" (Irene)

Air. "Bane of Virtue" (Irene)

Chorus. "Come, Mighty Father" (Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1, Scene 4

Recitative. "Fly, Fly, My Brethren" (Messenger, Irene)

Air. "As with Rosy Steps the Morn" (Irene)

Chorus. "All Pow’r in Heav’n Above" (Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1, Scene 5

Recitative. "Mistaken Wretches!" (Septimius)

Air. "Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly" (Septimius)

Recitative. "Deluded Mortal!" (Theodora, Septimius)

Accompagnato. "Oh, Worse Than Death Indeed" (Theodora)

Air. "Angels, Ever Bright and Fair" (Theodora)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 1, Scene 6

Recitative. "Unhappy, Happy Crew!" (Didymus, Irene)

Air. "Kind Heav’n, If Virtue Be Thy Care" (Didymus)

Recitative. "O Love, How Great Thy Pow’r!" (Irene)

Chorus. "Go, Gen’rous, Pious Youth" (Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 2, Scene 1

Recitative. "Ye Men of Antioch" (Valens)

Chorus. "Queen of Summer, Queen of Love" (Chorus)

Air. "Wide Spread His Name" (Valens)

Recitative. "Return, Septimius, to the Stubborn Maid" (Valens)

Chorus. "Venus, Laughing from the Skies" (Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 2, Scene 2

Symphony

Recitative. "O Thou Bright Sun" (Theodora)

Air. "With Darkness Deep, as is My Woe" (Theodora)

Air

Recitative. "But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul" (Theodora)

Air. "Oh That I on Wings Could Rise" (Theodora)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 2, Scene 3

Recitative. "Long Have I Known" (Didymus, Septimius)

Air. "Though the Honours" (Septimius)

Recitative. "Oh, Save Her Then" (Didymus, Septimius)

Air. "Deeds of Kindness to Display" (Didymus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 2, Scene 4

Recitative. "The Clouds Begin to Veil" (Irene)

Air. "Defend Her, Heav’n!" (Irene)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 2, Scene 5

Recitative. "Or Lull’d With Grief" (Didymus)

Air. "Sweet Rose and Lily" (Didymus)

Recitative. "Oh, Save Me, Heav’n" (Theodora, Didymus)

Recitative. "’Tis Kind, My Friends" (Didymus, Theodora)

Chorus. "How Strange Their Ends, Yet How Glorious" (Chorus)

Recitative. "On Me Your Frowns" (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)

Air. "Ye Ministers of Justice" (Valens)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 2, Scene 6

Recitative. "’Tis Night" (Irene)

Chorus. "He Saw the Lovely Youth" (Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 1: Air. "Lord, to Thee Each Night and Day" (Irene)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 2

Recitative. "But See, the Good, the Virtuous Didymus" (Irene, Theodora)

Air. "When Sunk in Anguish and Despair" (Theodora)

Theodora and Chorus. "Blest Be the Hand, and Blest the Pow’r" (Theodora, Chorus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 3

Recitative. "Undaunted in the Court" (Messenger, Irene)

Accompagnato. "O My Irene" (Theodora)

Recitative. "Stay Me Not, Dear Friend" (Theodora)

Duet. "Whither, Princess, Do You Fly" (Irene, Theodora)

Recitative. "She’s Gone" (Irene)

Air. "New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding on" (Irene)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 4: Recitative. "Is It a Christian Virtue" (Valens, Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 5

Recitative. "Be That My Doom" (Theodora, Septimius)

Air. "From Virtue Springs Each Gen’rous Deed" (Septimius)

Air. "Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray’r" (Valens)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 6

Recitative. "And Must Such Beauty Suffer?" (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)

Air and Duet. "Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing" (Didymus, Theodora)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Pt. 3, Scene 7

Recitative. "Ere This, Their Doom is Past" (Irene)

Chorus. "O Love Divine" (Chorus)