Theodora
Album by Handel; Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, John Chest, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Tracklist
- 1Theodora, HWV 68: OvertureGeorge Frideric Handel2:58
- 2Theodora, HWV 68: TrioGeorge Frideric Handel1:45
- 3Theodora, HWV 68: CouranteGeorge Frideric Handel1:36
- 4Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Recitative “’Tis Diocletian’s Natal Day” (Valens)George Frideric Handel0:30
- 5Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Air “Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go” (Valens)George Frideric Handel1:52
- 6Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Chorus “And Draw a Blessing Down” (The Heathens)George Frideric Handel2:03
- 7Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Recitative “Vouchsafe, Dread Sir” (Didymus, Valens)George Frideric Handel1:02
- 8Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Air “Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire” (Valens)George Frideric Handel3:15
- 9Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Chorus “For Ever Thus Stands Fix’d the Doom” (The Heathens)George Frideric Handel1:40
- 10Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Recitative “Most Cruel Edict” (Didymus, Septimius)George Frideric Handel0:35
- 11Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Air “The Raptur’d Soul” (Didymus)George Frideric Handel8:12
- 12Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Recitative “I Know Thy Virtues” (Septimius)George Frideric Handel0:42
- 13Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Air “Descend, Kind Pity, Heav’nly Guest” (Septimius)George Frideric Handel8:11
- 14Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Recitative “Though Hard, My Friends” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:27
- 15Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Air “Fond, Flatt’ring World, Adieu” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel4:00
- 16Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Recitative “O Bright Example of All Goodness” (Irene)George Frideric Handel0:38
- 17Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Air “Bane of Virtue” (Irene)George Frideric Handel5:51
- 18Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Chorus “Come, Mighty Father” (The Christians)George Frideric Handel2:29
- 19Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Recitative “Fly, Fly, My Brethren” (Messenger, Irene)George Frideric Handel1:08
- 20Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Air “As with Rosy Steps the Morn” (Irene)George Frideric Handel7:18
- 21Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Chorus “All Pow’r in Heav’n Above” (The Christians)George Frideric Handel2:17
- 22Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Recitative “Mistaken Wretches!” (Septimius)George Frideric Handel0:20
- 23Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Air “Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly” (Septimius)George Frideric Handel2:41
- 24Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Recitative “Deluded Mortal!” (Theodora, Septimius)George Frideric Handel1:02
- 25Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Accompagnato “Oh, Worse Than Death Indeed” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:23
- 26Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Air “Angels, Ever Bright and Fair” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel3:39
- 27Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Recitative “Unhappy, Happy Crew!” (Didymus, Irene)George Frideric Handel1:13
- 28Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Air “Kind Heav’n, If Virtue Be Thy Care” (Didymus)George Frideric Handel5:21
- 29Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Recitative “O Love, How Great Thy Pow’r!” (Irene)George Frideric Handel0:34
- 30Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Chorus “Go, Gen’rous, Pious Youth” (The Christians)George Frideric Handel4:41
- 31Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Recitative “Ye Men of Antioch” (Valens)George Frideric Handel0:33
- 32Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Chorus “Queen of Summer, Queen of Love” (The Heathens)George Frideric Handel0:42
- 33Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Air “Wide Spread His Name” (Valens)George Frideric Handel2:11
- 34Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Recitative “Return, Septimius, to the Stubborn Maid” (Valens)George Frideric Handel0:40
- 35Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Chorus “Venus, Laughing from the Skies” (The Heathens)George Frideric Handel1:19
- 36Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: SymphonyGeorge Frideric Handel0:54
- 37Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Recitative “O Thou Bright Sun” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:35
- 38Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air “With Darkness Deep, as is My Woe” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel3:07
- 39Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: AirGeorge Frideric Handel1:03
- 40Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Recitative “But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:30
- 41Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air “Oh That I on Wings Could Rise” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel3:23
- 42Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Recitative “Long Have I Known” (Didymus, Septimius)George Frideric Handel1:20
- 43Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Air “Though the Honours” (Septimius)George Frideric Handel3:12
- 44Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Recitative “Oh, Save Her Then” (Didymus, Septimius)George Frideric Handel0:38
- 45Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Air “Deeds of Kindness to Display” (Didymus)George Frideric Handel7:01
- 46Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 4: Recitative “The Clouds Begin to Veil” (Irene)George Frideric Handel0:40
- 47Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 4: Air “Defend Her, Heav’n!” (Irene)George Frideric Handel5:46
- 48Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Or Lull’d With Grief” (Didymus)George Frideric Handel0:38
- 49Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Air “Sweet Rose and Lily” (Didymus)George Frideric Handel2:17
- 50Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Oh, Save Me, Heav’n” (Theodora, Didymus)George Frideric Handel1:33
- 51Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Air “The Pilgrim’s Home” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel2:58
- 52Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Accompagnato “Forbid It, Heav’n!” (Didymus)George Frideric Handel0:37
- 53Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Or Say, What Right Have I to Take” (Didymus, Theodora)George Frideric Handel1:58
- 54Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Duet “To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth” (Theodora, Didymus)George Frideric Handel4:26
- 55Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 6: Recitative “’Tis Night” (Irene)George Frideric Handel0:47
- 56Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 6: Chorus “He Saw the Lovely Youth” (The Heathens)George Frideric Handel3:42
- 57Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 1: Air “Lord, to Thee Each Night and Day” (Irene)George Frideric Handel7:04
- 58Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Recitative “But See, the Good, the Virtuous Didymus” (Irene, Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:38
- 59Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Air “When Sunk in Anguish and Despair” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel3:36
- 60Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Theodora and Chorus “Blest Be the Hand, and Blest the Pow’r” (Theodora, The Christians)George Frideric Handel3:39
- 61Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “Undaunted in the Court” (Messenger, Irene)George Frideric Handel0:50
- 62Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato “O My Irene” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:29
- 63Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “Stay Me Not, Dear Friend” (Theodora)George Frideric Handel0:14
- 64Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Duet “Whither, Princess, Do You Fly” (Irene, Theodora)George Frideric Handel1:12
- 65Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “She’s Gone” (Irene)George Frideric Handel0:38
- 66Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Air “New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding on” (Irene)George Frideric Handel4:17
- 67Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 4: Recitative “Is It a Christian Virtue” (Valens, Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)George Frideric Handel1:12
- 68Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “Be That My Doom” (Theodora, Septimius)George Frideric Handel1:02
- 69Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “From Virtue Springs Each Gen’rous Deed” (Septimius)George Frideric Handel5:45
- 70Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray’r” (Valens)George Frideric Handel1:02
- 71Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “’Tis Kind, My Friends” (Didymus, Theodora)George Frideric Handel1:01
- 72Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Chorus “How Strange Their Ends, Yet How Glorious” (The Heathens)George Frideric Handel2:50
- 73Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “On Me Your Frowns” (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)George Frideric Handel0:37
- 74Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “Ye Ministers of Justice” (Valens)George Frideric Handel1:26
- 75Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 6: Recitative “And Must Such Beauty Suffer?” (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)George Frideric Handel0:54
- 76Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 6: Air and Duet “Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing” (Didymus, Theodora)George Frideric Handel5:37
- 77Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 7: Recitative “Ere This, Their Doom is Past” (Irene)George Frideric Handel0:30
- 78Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 7: Chorus “O Love Divine” (The Christians)George Frideric Handel2:42
More by Handel, Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, John Chest, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Release credits
- executive
- translator
- producer
- producer
- mastering, editor, mix
- performing orchestra
- choir vocals [6, 9, 18, 21, 30, 32, 35, 56, 60, 72, 78]
- baritone vocals [4-5, 7-8, 31, 33-34, 67, 70, 73-74]
- mezzo-soprano vocals [16-17, 19-20, 27, 29, 46-47, 55, 57-58, 61, 64-66, 77]
- liner notes
- design
- soprano vocals [14-15, 24-26, 37-38, 40-41, 50-51, 53-54, 59-60, 62-64, 67-68, 71, 73, 75-76]
- tenor vocals [19, 61]
- conductor
- tenor vocals [10, 12-13, 22-24, 34, 42-44, 67-69, 75]
- producer
- countertenor vocals [7, 10-11, 27-28, 42, 44-45, 48-50, 52-54, 58, 67, 71, 73, 75-76]
- translator
- booklet editor
Issues
TDigital Media28 October 2022






