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Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act I


Creators (2)

Composer

  1. George Frideric Handel German-British baroque composer

Librettist

  1. Charles Jennens

Related Works (33)

Parts

  1. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 3, "O sacred oracles of truth" (Daniel)
  2. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 1, Accompagnato ed Arioso "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
  3. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
  4. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Well may they laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus)
  5. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul" (Gobrias)
  6. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
  7. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Dry thoes unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
  8. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
  9. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
  10. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
  11. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
  12. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)
  13. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "All empires upon God depend"
  14. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Rejoice, my countrymen"
  15. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 3, Chorus, "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
  16. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 3, Air "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Daniel)
  17. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
  18. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
  19. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
  20. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
  21. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Jews)
  22. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
  23. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Babylonians)
  24. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
  25. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Duet "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
  26. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Jews)
  27. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" (Cyrus)
  28. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
  29. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "O much belov'd of God and man!" (Nitocris, Daniel)
  30. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 3, Recitativo "For long ago, whole ages ere this Cyrus" (Daniel) number
  31. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Nitocris)
  32. Belshazzar, HWV 61

Later Versions

  1. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act I translated