Handel - Hercules 'Begone, my fears, fly hence, away', DiDonato

Act 1 of Handel's musical drama Hercules HWV 60.
Begone, my fears, fly hence, away - Dejanira air
A train of captives, red with honest wounds - recitative
The smiling hours of joyful train - Lichas air. @ 5 minutes
Let none despair; relief may come though late - chorus

Iole - Ingela Bohlin, soprano,
Lichas - Malena Ernman, mezzo-soprano,
Hercules - William Shimell, baritone,
Hyllus - Toby Spence, tenor,
Dejanira, Hercules wife - Joyce DiDonato, ?soprano,
Simon Kirkbride - bass.
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie.

Begone, my fears, fly hence, away, like clouds before the morning ray!
My hero found, with laurels crown'd,
Heav'n relenting, fate consenting,
Springing joys my griefs control, and rising transports swell my soul.

The smiling hours of joyful train on silken pinions waft again
The moments of delight. returning pleasures banish woe,
As ebbing streams recruited flow, and day succeeds to night.

1, T1 14 - 17 9,15 Begone

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Malena Ernman a Swedish Opra Singer ^^



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diDonato is Deinaira? Who are the other singers?