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Les Arts Florissants at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, November 9, 2017

Cal Performances presents Les Arts Florissants, performing Charpentier's Actéon and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Zellerbach Hall Auditorium
U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, November 9, 2017

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[7 PM Pre-performance Talk with musicologist Victor Gavenda]

Set One: Charpentier: Actéon

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704): Actéon, H.481 (1685)

Dramatis Personae

[8:04 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

  1. [8:07 PM] Ouverture
     
    Scène Première: dans la vallée de Gargaphie
  2. [8:08 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
  3. [8:09 PM] Air d'Actéon
  4. [8:10 PM] Duo de Chasseurs et Chœur de Chasseurs
     
    Scène Seconde: Diane, Arethuze, Daphné, Hyale et Chœur des Nimphes de Diane
  5. [8:12 PM] Air de Diane et Chœur de Nymphes
  6. [8:13 PM] Duo de Daphné et Hyalé
  7. [8:17 PM] Air d'Aréthuse et Chœur de Nymphes
     
    Scène Troisième: Actéon, Diane, Aréthuze, Daphné, Hyale et Chœur des Nimphes
  8. [8:20 PM] Recitatif et Air d'Actéon
  9. [8:24 PM] Duo de Diane et Actéon
  10. [8:m PM] Chœur de Nymphes
     
    Scène Quatrième: Actéon seu
  11. [8:27 PM] Recitatif d'Actéon
  12. [8:29 PM] Plainte
     
    Scène Cinquième: Chœur des Chasseurs, Actéon en Cerf
  13. [8:33 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
     
    Scène Sixième: Junon, Chœur de Chasseurs
  14. [8:34 PM] Air de Junon et Chœur de Chasseurs
  15. [8:40 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
    [set ends 8:42 PM; bows and applause, then all off after a few minutes]

Set Two: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Henry Purcell (1659–1695): Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (1688); libretto by Nahum Tate (1652-1715)

Dramatis Personae

[9:04 PM lights down, performers out]

  1. [9:05 PM] Overture
     
    Act I
  2. [9:07 PM] Solo and Chorus: Shake the Cloud
  3. [9:08 PM] Dido: Ah! Belinda
  4. [9:m PM] Recitative: Grief Increases
  5. [9:13 PM] Chorus: When Monarchs Unite
  6. [9:m PM] Recitative: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring
  7. [9:m PM] Duet and Chorus: Fear No Danger
  8. [9:m PM] Recitative: See Your Royal Guest
  9. [9:17 PM] Chorus: Cupid Only Throws the Dart
  10. [9:17 PM] Recitative: If Not for Mine
  11. [9:18 PM] Air: Persue Thy Conquest
  12. [9:19 PM] Chorus: To the Hills and the Vales
  13. [9:20 PM] The Triumphing Dance
     
    Act II
  14. [9:m PM] Prelude for the Witches
  15. [9:21 PM] Chorus: Harm's Our Delight
  16. [9:m PM] Recitative: The Queen of Carthage
  17. [9:m PM] Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
  18. [9:m PM] Recitative: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun
  19. [9:m PM] Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
  20. [9:m PM] Duet: But, Ere we This Perform
  21. [9:m PM] Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
  22. [9:m PM] Echo Dance of Furies
  23. [9:m PM] Ritornelle
  24. [9:28 PM] Song and Chorus: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales
  25. [9:32 PM] Song: Oft She Visits
  26. [9:m PM] Recitative: Behold, Upon My Bended Spear
  27. [9:34 PM] Song and Chorus: Haste to Town
  28. [9:35 PM] Recitative: Stay, Prince
     
    Act III
  29. [9:38 PM] Prelude, Song and Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors
  30. [9:m PM] The Sailors' Dance
  31. [9:40 PM] Recitative: See the Flags
  32. [9:m PM] Song: Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm
  33. [9:m PM] Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight
  34. [9:m PM] The Witches' Dance
  35. [9:44 PM] Recitative: Your Counsel
  36. [9:m PM] Recitative: But Death, Alas!
  37. [9:m PM] Chorus: Great Minds
  38. [9:49 PM] Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda
  39. [9:m PM] Song: When I am Laid in Earth
  40. [9:m PM] With Drooping Wings
    [show ends 9:55 PM; applause, bows, more applause, more bows; all off, eventually…]

Performers

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