Thrice happy lovers
Opera details:
Opera title: | The Fairy-Queen |
Composer: | Henry Purcell |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | The Fairy-Queen Synopsis |
Libretto: | The Fairy-Queen Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Juno |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 5.01 |
| Previous scene: | Next, Winter comes slowly |
| Next scene: | O let me weep |
Alfred Deller sings Purcell - LIVE!
Singer: Alfred DellerHere are five songs from a 1952 concert in the Netherlands with countertenor Alfred Deller and Gustav Leonhardt at the harpsichord.
I. "Thrice happy lovers" (Fairy Queen)
II. "O lead me to some peaceful gloom" (Bonduca) 3:05
III. "Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice" (Fairy Queen) 6:04
IV. "Not all my torments can your pity move" (Gresham Manuscript) 8:11
V. "Music for a while" (Oedipus) 10:30
Link to my Alfred Deller playlist:
"I love, tho' I despair."
(the images used here are not from this concert.)
Watch videos with other singers performing Thrice happy lovers:
5 - Alfred Deller
1 - Joan Carlyle
1 - April Cantelo
2 - Tuva Semmingsen
2 - Elisabeth von Magnus
1 - Jill Feldman
1 - Carolyn Sampson
1 - Catherine Bott
2 - Caitlin Hulcup
1 - Elsie Morison
1 - Sara Macliver
1 - Anna Prohaska
1 - Sylvia McNair
Other videos of the same singers performing Thrice happy lovers:
2 - Elisabeth von Magnus
1 - Catherine Bott
1 - Catherine Bott
5 - Alfred Deller
English Libretto or Translation:
Not entered yet.External links for Thrice happy lovers
| Sheetmusic for aria |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this aria | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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