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2 acts
- 1. Overture
- 2. Chorus: Oh the pleasure of the plains (Shepherds, Nymphs)
- 3. Recitative and Aria (Galatea)
- a. Recitative: Ye verdant plains
- b. Aria: Hush, hush, ye pretty warbling quire
- 4. Aria: Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis)
- 5. Recitative and Aria (Damon)
- a. Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay
- b. Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing
- 6. Recitative and Aria (Acis)
- a. Recitative: Lo! here my love
- b. Aria: Love in her eyes sits playing
- 7. Recitative and Aria (Galatea)
- a. Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains
- b. Aria: As when the dove
- 8. Duet: Happy we (Acis, Galatea)
- 9. Chorus: Happy we (Shepherds, Nymphs)
- 10. Chorus: Wretched lovers (Shepherds, Nymphs)
- 11. Recitative: I rage, I melt (Polyphemus)
- 12. Aria: O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus)
- 13. Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus)
- 14. Aria: Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)
- 15. Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Damon)
- 16. Recitative and Aria (Acis)
- a. Recitative: His hideous love provokes my rage
- b. Aria: Love sounds th'alarm
- 17. Aria: Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)
- 18. Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)
- 19. Trio: The flocks shall leave the mountains (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus)
- 20. Recitative: Help, Galatea (Acis)
- 21. Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses (Shepherds, Nymphs)
- 22. Solo with Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Shepherds, Nymphs)
- 23. Recitative and Aria (Galatea)
- a. Recitative: Tis done, thus I exert my pow'r divine
- b. Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight
- 24. Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears (Shepherds, Nymphs)
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(From the wikipedia article)
- Variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and (in the New Grove Dictionary) as an oratorio. The work was originally devised as a one-act masque which premiered in 1718. Handel later adapted the piece into a three-act serenata for the Italian opera troupe in London in 1732, which incorporated a number of songs (still in Italian) from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72, his 1708 setting of the same story to different music. He later adapted the original English work into its two-act form in 1739.
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