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Dove?

Opera details:

Opera title:

Poro

Composer:

Georg Handel

Language:

Italian

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Aria details:

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aria

Role(s):

Poro

Voice(s):

Mezzo-Soprano

Act:

3.11

Previous scene: Serbati a grandi imprese
Next scene: Mio ben ricordati

Oh! that I on wings could rise (Handel's Theodora) - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

"Oh, that I on wings could rise"
from Handel's oratorio Theodora (HWV 68)

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
(1954--2006)

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (Conductor)

First performance was March 16, 1750
Covent Garden Theatre

Libretto by Thomas Morell (1703-84)

Theodora:
"Oh, that I on wings could rise,
Swiftly sailing through the skies,
As skims the silver dove!
That I might rest,
For ever blest,
With harmony and love."

Oh, that I on wings. . . da capo

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