| Act 1 |
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| Overture | George Frideric Handel: Alcina , HWV 34 |
| "My Ariel" (Prospero, Ariel) – "Ah, if you would earn your freedom" (Prospero) | Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, cantata, RV 684, "Ah, ch'infelice sempre" |
| "My master, generous master – I can conjure you fire" (Ariel) | Handel: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno , oratorio, HWV 46a, part 1, "Un pensiero nemico di pace" |
| "Then what I desire" (Prospero, Ariel) |
| "There are times when the dark side – Maybe soon, maybe now" (Sycorax, Caliban) | Handel: Teseo , HWV 9, act 5, scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata" |
| "The blood of a dragon – Stolen by treachery" (Caliban) | Handel: La resurrezione , oratorio, HWV 47, part 1, scene 1, "O voi, dell'Erebo" |
| "Miranda! My Miranda!" (Prospero, Miranda) – "I have no words for this feeling" (Miranda) | Handel: Notte placida e cheta, cantata, HWV 142, "Che non si dà" |
| "My master's books – Take salt and stones" (Ariel) | Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, Deuxième entrée: La Musique, scene 7, "Aimez, aimez d'une ardeur mutuelle" |
| Quartet: "Days of pleasure, nights of love" (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander) | Handel: Semele , HWV 58, act 1, scene 4, "Endless pleasure, endless love" |
| The Storm (chorus) | André Campra: Idoménée, act 2, scene 1, "O Dieux! O justes Dieux!" |
| "I've done as you commanded" (Ariel, Prospero) | Handel: La resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, "Di rabbia indarno freme" |
| "Oh, Helena, my Helen – You would have loved this island" (Demetrius) | Handel: La resurrezione, oratorio, HWV 47, part 1, scene 2, "Così la tortorella" |
| "Would that it could last forever – Wonderful, wonderful" (Miranda, Demetrius) | Handel: Ariodante , HWV 33, act 1, scene 5, "Prendi, prendi" |
"Why am I living?" (Helena)
"With this, now I can start again – Once, once at my command" (Sycorax) | Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, act 2, scene 1, "Dolce riposo"
Jean-Marie Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus , act 4, scene 4, "Et toi, dont les embrasements… Noires divinités" |
| "Mother, why not? – Mother, my blood is freezing" (Caliban) | Vivaldi: Il Farnace , RV 711, act 2, scenes 5 & 6, "Gelido in ogni vena" |
| "Help me out of this nightmare" – Quintet: "Beautiful, wonderful" (Helena, Sycorax, Caliban, Miranda, Demetrius) | Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33, act 1, scene 5, recitative preceding "Prendi, prendi" |
| "Welcome Ferdinand – All I've done is try to help you" (Prospero) | Vivaldi: Longe mala, umbrae, terrores, motet, RV 629, "Longe mala, umbrae, terrores" |
| "Curse you, Neptune" (Lysander) | Vivaldi: Griselda , RV 718, act 3, scene 6, "Dopo un'orrida procella" |
| "Your bride, sir?" (Ariel, Lysander, Demetrius, Miranda) – Trio: "Away, away! You loathsome wretch, away!" (Miranda, Demetrius, Lysander) | Handel: Susanna , oratorio, HWV 66, part 2, "Away, ye tempt me both in vain" |
| "Two castaways – Arise! Arise, great Neptune" (Ariel) | Attr. Henry Purcell: The Tempest, or, The Enchanted Island, Z. 631, act 2, no. 3, "Arise, ye subterranean winds" |
| "This is convolvulus" (Helena, Caliban) – "If the air should hum with noises" (Caliban) | Handel: Deidamia, HWV 42, act 2, scene 4, "Nel riposo e nel contento" |
| "Neptune the Great" (Chorus) | Handel: Four Coronation Anthems, HWV 258, "Zadok the Priest" |
"Who dares to call me? – Gone forever" (Neptune, Ariel)
"I'd forgotten that I was Lord" (Neptune, Chorus) | Based on Handel: Tamerlano , HWV 18, "Oh, per me lieto"
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie , act 2, scene 3, "Qu'à servir mon courroux" |
| Act 2 |
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| "My God, what's this? – Where are you now?" (Hermia) | Handel: Hercules , oratorio, HWV 60, act 3, scene 3, "Where shall I fly?" |
"So sweet, talking together"
"Now it's returning" (Sycorax) | Vivaldi: Argippo , RV 697, act 1, scene 1, "Se lento ancora il fulmine"
Handel: Alcina, HWV 34, act 3, scene 1 – "Stà nell'Ircana" |
| "Have you seen a young lady?" (Demetrius, Helena, Caliban) – "A voice, a face, a figure half-remembered" (Helena) | Handel: Amadigi di Gaula , HWV 11, act 3, scene 4, "Hanno penetrato i detti tuoi l'inferno" |
| "His name, she spoke his name – The rage" (Caliban) | Handel: Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60, act 3, scene 2 "O Jove, what land is this? – I rage" |
| "I try to shape my destiny – Chaos, confusion" (Prospero) | Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, act 2, scene 5, "Pena tiranna" |
| "Oh, my darling, my sister – Men are fickle" (Helena, Hermia) | Handel: Atalanta , HWV 35, act 2, scene 3 – "Amarilli? – O dei!" |
| "I knew the spell" (Sycorax, Caliban) – "Hearts that love can all be broken" (Sycorax) | Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (attr. Handel): Il pianto di Maria, cantata, HWV 234, "Giunta l'ora fatal – Sventurati i miei sospiri" |
| "Such meager consolation – No, I'll have no consolation" (Caliban) | Vivaldi: Bajazet , RV 703, act 3, scene 7, "Verrò, crudel spietato" |
Masque of the Wealth of all the World- Quartet: Caliban goes into his dream, "Wealth and love can be thine"
- Parade
- The Women and the Unicorn
- The Animals
- Chaos
- The Calm
| - Rameau: Les Indes galantes, act 3, scene 7, "Tendre amour"
- Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, Troisième entrée: La Danse, scene 7, Tambourin en rondeau
- Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé, Troisième entrée: La Danse, scene 7, Musette
- Jean-Féry Rebel: 'es éléments, act 1, Tambourins 1 & 2
- Rameau: Platée, act 1, scene 6, Orage
- Campra: Idoménée, act 2, scene 1
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| "With no sail and no rudder – Gliding onwards" (Ferdinand) | Handel: Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11, act 2, scene 1, "Io ramingo – Sussurrate, onde vezzose" |
| Sextet: "Follow hither, thither, follow me" (Ariel, Miranda, Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander) | Handel: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, oratorio, HWV 46a, part 2, quartet: "Voglio tempo" |
| "Sleep now" (Ariel) | Vivaldi: Tito Manlio , RV 78, act 3, scene 1, "Sonno, se pur sei sonno" |
| "Darling, it's you at last" (Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena) | Vivaldi: La verità in cimento, RV 739, act 2, scene 9, "Anima mia, mio ben" |
| "The wat'ry God has heard the island's pleas" (Chorus) | Handel: Susanna, oratorio, HWV 66, part 3, "Impartial Heav'n!" |
| "Sir, honored sir – I have dreamed you" (Ferdinand, Miranda) | Handel: Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi, cantata, HWV 197, "Ma se l'alma sempre geme" |
| "The time has come. The time is now" ("Maybe soon, maybe now," reprise) (Sycorax) | Handel: Teseo, HWV 9, act 5, scene 1, "Morirò, ma vendicata" |
| "Enough! How dare you?" (Prospero, Neptune) – "Tyrant! Merely a petty tyrant." (Neptune) | Handel: Tamerlano, HWV 18, act 3, scene 1, "Empio, per farti guerra" |
| "To stray is mortal" (Prospero, Caliban) – "Forgive me, please forgive me" (Prospero) | Handel: Partenope , HWV 27, act 3, scene 4, "Ch'io parta?" |
| "We gods who watch the ways of man" (Neptune, Sycorax, Chorus) | Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato , HWV 55, part 1, "Come, but keep thy wonted state – Join with thee" |
| "This my hope for the future" (Prospero) – "Can you feel the heavens are reeling" (Ariel) | Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718, act 2, scene 2, "Agitata da due venti" |
| "Now a bright new day is dawning" (Ensemble) | Handel: Judas Maccabaeus , oratorio, HWV 63, part 3, "Hallelujah" |
