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Ah Belinda! - No.2
from Act I of the English opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
Libretto: Nahum Tate

Role: Dido, Queen of Carthage
Voice Part: soprano|mezzo-soprano       Fach: lyric mezzo|lyric soprano
Setting: Dido's palace, Ancient Carthage
Synopsis: Dido tells Belinda that she is tormented by something that she will not tell her.
Range: Tessitura:
C4 - F5D4 - D#/Eb5
Translations/Aria Texts:
Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz (added 1997-09-05)
Ah! Belinda, Dido's aria from Dido and Aeneas

Ah! Belinda,
I am pressed with torment not to be confessed.
Peace and I are strangers grown.
I languish till my grief is known
Yet would not have it guessed.
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