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Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me"
Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"
Recitative: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"
Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski
Recitative: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast"
Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Anne Sofie von Otter, Yvon Repérant, Richard Croft, Marc Minkowski
Recitative: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend"
Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli
Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Musiciens du Louvre
Recitative: "Banish your fears!"
David Daniels, Yvon Repérant, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado
Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away"
Recitative: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"
Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, David Daniels, Richard Croft, Mirella Giardelli
Chorus: "Let none despair"
Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Recitative: "Thanks to the powers above"
Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Lynne Dawson, Claire Giardelli, Gidon Saks, Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant
Recitative: "Now farewell, arms!"
Gidon Saks, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli
Recitative: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope"
Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Lynne Dawson, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Claire Giardelli
Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Musiciens du Louvre
Recitative: "Why was I born a princess"
Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Claire Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado
Recitative: "It must be so"
Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Marc Minkowski, Lynne Dawson, Mirella Giardelli
Recitative: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"
Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michel Maldonado
Recitative: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"
Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, David Daniels, Claire Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Anne Sofie von Otter
Recitative: "In vain you strive"
Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli
Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Musiciens du Louvre
Recitative: "She knows my passion"
Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Richard Croft, Mirella Giardelli, Lynne Dawson, Yvon Repérant, Michel Maldonado
Recitative: "Forgive a passion"
Richard Croft, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant
Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Recitative: "Yes, I congratulate"
Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gidon Saks, Yvon Repérant
Recitative: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"
Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter
Recitative: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"
Gidon Saks, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Yvon Repérant, Marc Minkowski
Recitative: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"
Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Yvon Repérant
Recitative: "But see, the princess Iole"
Lynne Dawson, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Yvon Repérant
Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"
Recitative: "Father of Hercules"
Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant
Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski
Recitative: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"
Marcos Pujol, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, David Daniels, Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant
Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre
Recitative: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"
Claire Giardelli, Gidon Saks, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Richard Croft, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski
Recitative: "Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"
Lynne Dawson, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado
Recitative: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"
Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcos Pujol, Yvon Repérant
Recitative: "Words are too faint"
Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Lynne Dawson, Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft, Marcos Pujol
Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"
Marc Minkowski, Lynne Dawson, Musiciens du Louvre, Richard Croft
Recitative: "Ye sons of freedom"
Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Marcos Pujol, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski
Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski