114 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Lay your doubts and fears aside" - Recitative. "You are mortal" (Jupiter)
115 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "With fond desiring, with bliss expiring" (Semele)
116 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "How engaging, how endearing" - Recitative. "Ah me! Why sighs my Semele?" (Loves and Zephyrs, Semele, Jupiter)
117 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Too well I read her meaning" - Air. "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
118 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "Now Love that everlasting boy" (Loves and Zephyrs)
119 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "By my command now at this instant" (Jupiter, Semele)
120 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "See, she appears" - Air. "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
121 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Dear sister?" - Air. "But hark! the heav'nly sphere" (Semele, Ino)
122 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Duet. "Prepare then, ye" (Semele, Ino)
123 Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs and Swains)
124 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Symphony - Accompagnato. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno, Iris)
125 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Leave me, loathsome light!" - Recitative. "Dull God" (Somnus, Iris, Juno)
126 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "More sweet is that name" - Recitative. "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
127 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Duet. "Obey my will, thy rod resign" (Juno, Somnus)
128 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
129 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
130 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "O ecstasy of happiness!" - Air. "Myself I shall adore" - Recitative. "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
131 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Conjure him" (Juno)
132 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" - Recitative. "Rich odours" (Semele, Juno)
133 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Oh Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter)
134 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "I ever am granting" - Accompagnato. "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele, Jupiter)
135 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Ah! Take heed what you press!" (Jupiter)
136 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "No, no, I'll tak no less" (Semele)
137 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ah, wither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
138 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno)
139 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ah me! Too late I now repent" (Semele)
140 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Of my ill-boding dream" - Chorus. "Oh terror and astonishment!" (Ino, Priests)
141 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "See from above" - Sinfonia - Accompagnato. "Apollo comes" (Cadmus, Apollo)
142 Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Chorus. "Happy shall we be, and free from care" (Priests)
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