Overture George Frideric Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 Act I 1. "My Ariel" (Prospero, Ariel) – "Ah, if you would earn your freedom" (Prospero) Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, cantata, RV 684, "Ah, ch’infelice sempre" 2. "My master, generous master – I can conjure you fire" (Ariel) Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a, Part I, "Un pensiero nemico di pace" 3. "Then what I desire" (Prospero, Ariel) 4. "There are times when the dark side – Maybe soon, maybe now" (Sycorax, Caliban) Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, Act V, Scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata" 5. "The blood of a dragon – Stolen by treachery" (Caliban) Handel: La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, Part I, Scene 1, "O voi, dell’Erebo" 6. "Miranda! My Miranda!" (Prospero, Miranda) – "I have no words for this feeling" (Miranda) Handel: Notte placida e cheta, cantata, HWV 142, "Che non si dà" 7. "My master’s books" – "Take salt and stones" (Ariel) Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les fêtes d’Hébé, Deuxième entrée: La Musique, Scene 7, "Aimez, aimez d’une ardeur mutuelle" 8. Quartet: "Days of pleasure, nights of love" (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander) Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act I, Scene 4, "Endless pleasure, endless love" 9. The Storm (chorus) André Campra: Idoménée, Act II, Scene 1, "O Dieux! O justes Dieux!" 10. "I’ve done as you commanded" (Ariel, Prospero) Handel: La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, "Di rabbia indarno freme" 11. "Oh, Helena, my Helen – You would have loved this island" (Demetrius) Handel: La Resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, Part I, Scene 2, "Così la tortorella" 12. "Would that it could last forever – Wonderful, wonderful" (Miranda, Demetrius) Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, Act I, Scene 5, "Prendi, prendi" 13. "Why am I living?" (Helena) Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, Act II, Scene 1, "Dolce riposo") "The gods of good and evil – At last everything is prepared" (Sycorax) Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus, Act IV, Scene 4, "Et toi, dont les embrasements… Noires divinités" 14. "Mother, why not? – Mother, my blood is freezing" (Caliban) Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV 711, Act II, Scene 5 & 6, "Gelido in ogni vena" 15. "Help me out of this nightmare" – Quintet: "Wonderful, wonderful" (Helena, Sycorax, Caliban, Miranda, Demetrius) Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, Act I, Scene 5, recitative preceding "Prendi, prendi" 16. "Welcome Ferdinand – Wonderful, wonderful," reprise (Prospero, Miranda, Demetrius) "All I’ve done is try to help you" (Prospero) Vivaldi: Longe mala, umbrae, terrores, motet, RV 629, "Longe mala, umbrae, terrores" 17. "Curse you, Neptune" (Lysander) Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718, Act III, Scene 6, "Dopo un’orrida procella" 18. "Your bride, sir? "(Ariel, Lysander, Demetrius, Miranda) – Trio: "Away, away! You loathsome wretch, away!" (Miranda, Demetrius, Lysander) Handel: Susanna, oratorio, HWV 66, Part II, "Away, ye tempt me both in vain" 19. "Two castaways – Arise! Arise, great Neptune" (Ariel) Attr. Henry Purcell: The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island, Z. 631, Act II, no. 3, "Arise, ye subterranean winds" 20. "This is convolvulus" (Helena, Caliban) – "If the air should hum with noises" (Caliban) Handel: Deidamia, HWV 42, Act II, Scene 4, "Nel riposo e nel contento" 21. "Neptune the Great" (Chorus) Handel: Four Coronation Anthems, HWV 258, "Zadok the priest" 22. Who dares to call me? (Neptune, Ariel) Based on Handel: Tamerlano, HWV 18, "Oh, per me lieto" "I’d forgotten that I was Lord" (Neptune, Chorus) Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, Act II, Scene 3, "Qu’a server mon courroux" 23. "We like to wrestle destiny – Chaos, confusion" (Prospero) Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, Act II, Scene 5, "Pena tiranna"