Whence could so much virtue spring
Opera details:
Opera title: | Dido and Aeneas |
Composer: | Henry Purcell |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | Dido and Aeneas Synopsis |
Libretto: | Dido and Aeneas Libretto |
Translation(s): | Deutsch |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Dido / Belinda |
Voice(s): | Mezzo-Soprano or Soprano / Soprano |
Act: | 1.06 |
| Previous scene: | When monarchs unite |
| Next scene: | Fear no danger to ensue |
Watch videos with other singers performing Whence could so much virtue spring:
1 - Catherine Bott
1 - Emma Kirkby
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Deborah York
1 - Simone Kermes
1 - Camilla Tilling
2 - Susan Graham
1 - Felicity Palmer
2 - Tatiana Troyanos
1 - Lucy Crowe
2 - Sarah Connolly
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
1 - Maggie Teyte
1 - Rebecca Evans
2 - Maria Ewing
1 - Sheila Armstrong
2 - Tatiana Troyanos
1 - Norma Burrowes
2 - Janet Baker
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Marie McLaughlin
2 - Della Jones
2 - Patricia Kern
1 - Catherine Bott
1 - Emma Kirkby
1 - Julianne Baird
5 - John Mark Ainsley
5 - Michael Chance
1 - Gaëlle Méchaly
1 - Sophie Daneman
1 - Véronique Gens
1 - Céline Scheen
1 - Nuria Rial
2 - Romina Basso
2 - Carolyn Watkinson
1 - Victoria de los Ángeles
1 - Salomé Haller
1 - Lynne Dawson
1 - Lynne Dawson
1 - Sarah Leonard
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Nancy Maultsby
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
6 - Thomas Hemsley
1 - Evelyn Tubb
1 - Elin Manahan Thomas
1 - Arda Mandikian
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
2 - Anna Pollak
2 - Teresa Berganza
1 - Adele Leigh
1 - Catherine Bott
1 - Emma Kirkby
1 - Julianne Baird
Other videos of the same singers performing Whence could so much virtue spring:
1 - Jessye Norman
1 - Marie McLaughlin
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
1 - Véronique Gens
2 - Janet Baker
1 - Véronique Gens
1 - Lynne Dawson
1 - Sarah Leonard
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Teresa Berganza
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
1 - Arda Mandikian
1 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1 - Kirsten Flagstad
2 - Anna Pollak
1 - Lynne Dawson
1 - Sarah Leonard
2 - Anne Sofie von Otter
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Janet Baker
2 - Teresa Berganza
2 - Carolyn Watkinson
2 - Teresa Berganza
2 - Janet Baker
1 - Adele Leigh
1 - Adele Leigh
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
DIDOWhence could so much virtue spring?
What storms, what battles did he sing?
Anchises' valour mix'd with Venus' charms
How soft in peace, and yet how fierce in arms!
BELINDA
A tale so strong and full of woe
Might melt the rocks as well as you.
SECOND WOMAN
What stubborn heart unmov'd could see
Such distress, such piety?
DIDO
Mine with storms of care oppress'd
Is taught to pity the distress'd.
Mean wretches' grief can touch,
So soft, so sensible my breast;
But ah! I fear, I pity his too much.
BELINDA AND SECOND WOMAN
repeated by Chorus
Fear no danger to ensue,
The Hero loves as well as you,
Ever gentle, ever smiling,
And the cares of life beguiling,
Cupid strew your path with flowers
Gather'd from Elysian bowers.
External links for Whence could so much virtue spring
| Sheetmusic for duet |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
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