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The Fairy-Queen

Opera

Writers: Henry Purcell

Songs

Author’s Note: The breakdown given below is combining the numbers in the score with their place in the . Where musical numbers are given voicetypes and not character names, these are noted in brackets below.

  • No. 1 Prelude
  • No. 2 Hornpipe
  • No. 3 Air
  • No. 4 Rondeau

Act One - A Palace

  • No. 5 Overture
  • Dialogue ‘Now the Glow-worm shews her Lightâ€� - Titania, Indian Boy, 1st Fairy
  • No 6. Duet ‘Come, come, come let us leave the Townâ€� - (Soprano and Bass)
  • No. 7 Scene of the Drunken Poet ‘Fill up the bowlâ€� - Drunken Poet, 1st Fairy, 2nd Fairy, Chorus
  • Dialogue ‘Sleep has seis’d the lovely Boyâ€� - Titania, 1st Fairy
  • No. 8 Jig

Act Two - A Wood, by Moon-light

  • Dialogue ‘Take Hands, and trip it in a round,â€� - Titania, Fairies
  • No. 9 Prelude ‘Come all ye Songsters of the Skyâ€� - (Tenor)
  • No. 10 Interlude
  • No. 11 Chorus ‘May the God of Wit Inspireâ€� - Chorus
  • No. 12 Echo
  • No. 13 Chorus ‘Now join your warbling voices allâ€� - Chorus
  • No. 13a Aria ‘Sing while we trip itâ€� - (Soprano)
  • Dialogue ‘Come Elves, another Dance, and Fairy Songâ€� - Titania
  • No. 14 Song ‘See, See, See, even Night herself is hereâ€� - Night
  • No. 15 Song ‘I am come to lock all fastâ€� - Mystery
  • No. 16 Song ‘One charming night gives more delightâ€� - Secrecy
  • No. 17 Song ‘Hush, no moreâ€� - Sleep, Chorus
  • No. 18 Dance for the Followers of Night
  • No. 19 Air

Act Three - A Great Wood

  • Dialogue ‘Come, lovely Youth, sit on this flow'ry Bedâ€� - Titania, Bottom
  • No. 20 Song ‘If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?â€� - (Soprano), Chorus
  • No. 21 Symphony while the swans come forward
  • No. 22 Dance for the Fairies
  • No. 23 Dance for the Green Men
  • No. 24 Aria ‘Ye Gentle Spirits of the Airâ€� - Soprano
  • No. 25 Dialogue between Corridon and Mopsa ‘Now the maids and the menâ€� - Corridon, Mopsa
  • No. 26 Aria ‘When I have often heardâ€� - Nymph
  • No. 27 Dance for the Haymakers
  • No. 28 ‘A thousand, thousand, waysâ€� - (Alto), Chorus
  • Dialogue ‘Now I will Feast the Pallate of my Loveâ€� - Titania, Bottom
  • No. 29 Hornpipe

Act Four - Garden of Fountains

  • Dialogue ‘Hark, thou King of Shadows, hark!â€� - Puck, Oberon, Titania, Bottom
  • No. 30 Symphony
  • No. 31 Solo with Chorus ‘Now the Night is chas'd away,â€� - 1st Attendant, Chorus
  • No. 32 Duet ‘Let the Fifes and the Clarionsâ€� - 2nd and 3rd Attendant
  • No. 33 Entry of Phoebus
  • No. 34 Aria ‘When a cruel long winterâ€� - Phoebus
  • No. 35 Chorus ‘Hail! Great Parentâ€� - Chorus
  • No. 36 Song ‘Thus the ever grateful springâ€� - Spring
  • No. 37 Song ‘Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gayâ€� - Summer
  • No. 38 Song ‘See my many Colour'd Fieldsâ€� - Autumn
  • No. 39 Song ‘Now Winter comes Slowly, Pale, Meager, and Oldâ€� - Winter, Chorus
  • No. 40 Air

Act Five - Athens

  • Dialogue ‘Go bid the Huntsmen wake 'em with their Musickâ€� - Theseus, Egeus, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena
  • No. 41 Prelude
  • Dialogue ‘Are not these Stories strange, my Gracious Lord?â€� - Egeus, Theseus, Oberon, Titania, Puck, Fairies
  • No. 42 Epithalamium ‘Thrice happy loversâ€� - Juno
  • Dialogue ‘Sing me the Plaint that did so Nobly moveâ€� - Oberon
  • No. 43 The Plaint ‘O let me weepâ€� - (Soprano)
  • Dialogue ‘Now let a new Transparent World be seenâ€� - Oberon
  • No. 44 Entry Dance
  • No. 45 Symphony
  • No. 46 Song ‘Thus the gloomy Worldâ€� - Chinese Man
  • No. 47 Song ‘Thus happy and free â€� - Chinese Woman, Chorus
  • No. 48 Song ‘Yes, Xansiâ€� - Chinese Man
  • No. 49 Monkeysâ€� Dance
  • No. 50 Song ‘Hark how all thingsâ€� - 1st Woman
  • No. 51 Song ‘Hark! The Ech’ing Airâ€� - 2nd Woman, Chorus
  • No. 52 Duet and Chorus ‘Sure the dulle God of Marriage does not hearâ€� - 1st Woman, 2nd Woman, Chorus
  • No. 53 Prelude
  • No. 53a Solo ‘See, I Obeyâ€� - Hymen
  • No. 53b Duet ‘Turn Thine Eyesâ€� - 1st Woman, 2nd Woman
  • No. 53c Trio ‘They shall be as happyâ€� - Hymen, 1st Woman, 2nd Woman, Chorus
  • No. 54 Chaconne

Epilogue - Dialogue ‘At Dead of Night we'll to the Bride-bed come� - Oberon, Titania

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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