Tracklist
| Act ` | ||
| 1-01 | Overtura | 6:59 |
| 1-02 | Scene 1: See With What Grand Dejection | 1:33 |
| 1-03 | No Longer, Fate, Relentless Frown | 5:53 |
| 1-04 | O Hercules! Why Art Thou Absent From Me? | 4:56 |
| 1-05 | The World, When Day's Carrer Is Run - Princess! Be Comforted, And Hope The Best | |
| 1-06 | Scene 2: My Son! Dear Image Of Thy Absent Sire! | |
| 1-07 | I Feel, I Feel The God | 1:30 |
| 1-08 | He Said, The Sacred Fury Left His Breath | |
| 1-9 | There In Myrtle Shades | 3:28 |
| 1-10 | Despair Not! But Let Rising Hope Suspend | 2:54 |
| 1-11 | Where Congealed'd The Northern Steams | |
| 1-12 | O Filial Piety! O Generous Love! | 3:37 |
| 1-13 | Scene 3: Banish Your Fears! The Noble Hercules | 4:12 |
| 1-14 | Begone, My Fears | |
| 1-15 | A Train Of Captives, Red With Honest Wounds | 0:58 |
| 1-16 | The Smiling Hours | |
| 1-17 | Le None Dispair | |
| 1-18 | Scene 4: March | 1:39 |
| 1-19 | Thanks To The Powers Above | 2:04 |
| 1-20 | My Father! Ah! Methinks I See | 6:10 |
| 1-21 | Scene 5: Now Farewell, Arms! From Hence The Tide Of Time - The God Of Battles Quits The Bloody Field | 3:42 |
| 1-22 | Crown With Festal Pomp The Day | 2:40 |
| Act II | ||
| 1-23 | Sinfonia | |
| 1-24 | Scene 1: Why Was I Born A Princess - How Blest The Maid Ordained To Dwell | |
| 1-25 | Scene 2: It Must Be So! Fame Speaks Aloud My Wrongs | 4:13 |
| 1-26 | When Beauty Sorrow's Liv'ry Wears | |
| 1-27 | Whence This Unjust Suspicion? | 1:22 |
| 1-28 | Ah! Think What Ills The Jealous Prove - It Is Too Sure That Hercules Is False | 6:03 |
| 1-29 | Scene 3: My Goldlike Master | |
| 1-30 | In Vain You Strive His Falsohood To Disguise | |
| 1-31 | Chorus. Jealousy! Infernal Pest | 5:48 |
| 1-33 | Scene 4: She Knows My Passion, And Has Heard Me Breathe | 1:17 |
| 1-33 | Banish Love From Thy Breast | |
| 1-34 | From Celestial Seats Descending | 6:05 |
| 1-35 | Wanton God Of Amorous Fires | 1:50 |
| 1-36 | Scene 5: Yes, I Congratulate Your Titles, Swelled | 5:51 |
| 1-37 | Alcides' Name In Lates Story | |
| 1-38 | Oh, Glorious Pattern Of Heroic Deeds! | 6:18 |
| 1-39 | Resign Thy Club And Lion's Spoils | |
| 1-40 | You Are Deceived! Some Villain Has Belied | 1:34 |
| 1-41 | Scene 6: Dissemblingm False Perfideus Hercules | |
| 1-42 | Cease, Ruler Of The Day, To Rise | 3:27 |
| 1-43 | Some Kinder Power Inspire Me To Regain | 2:30 |
| 1-44 | Scene 7: Lichas, Thy Hands Shall To The Temple Bear | |
| 1-45 | Scene 8: Forgive Me Princess | |
| 1-46 | Joys Of Freedom, Joys Of Power | 3:06 |
| 1-47 | Father Of Hercules, Great Jove, O Help - Love And Hymen | 4:47 |
| Act III | ||
| 2-1 | Sinfonia | 2:48 |
| 2-2 | Scene 1: Ye Sons Of Trachin, Mourn Your Valiant Chief | 1:36 |
| 2-3 | Oh, Scene Of Unexampler Woe! | 2:54 |
| 2-4 | Oh, Fatal Jealousy! - Tyrants Now No More Shall Dread | |
| 2-5 | Scene 2: O Jove! What Land Is This, What Clime | 2:24 |
| 2-6 | Great Jove! Relieve His Pains! | 2:15 |
| 2-7 | Let Not Fame The Tidings Spread | 2:12 |
| 2-8 | Scene 3: Where Shall I Fly? Where Hide This Guilty Head? | 5:51 |
| 2-9 | Scene 4: Lo! The Fair Fatal Cause Of All This Ruin! | 1:35 |
| 2-10 | My Breast With Tender Pity Swells | 7:35 |
| 2-11 | Scene 5: Princess, Rejoice! Whose Heaven Directed Hand | 2:01 |
| 2-12 | Words Are Too Faint To Speak The Warring Passions | 1:07 |
| 2-13 | O Prince, Whose Virtues All Admire | 2:16 |
| 2-14 | Ye Sons Of Freedom, Now, In Every Clime - Chorus | 3:12 |
Companies, etc.
- Copyright (c) – Bel Air Media
- Copyright (c) – Opéra National de Paris
- Copyright (c) – NEF Munich
- Copyright (c) – France 2004
- Filmed At – Opéra National De Paris, Palais Garnier
- Made By – QOL
- Distributed By – Harmonia Mundi Distribution
Credits
- Artwork – Benjamin Baltimore
- Chorus Master – François Bazola
- Composed By – Georg Friedrich Haendel*
- Conductor – William Christie
- Design [Costumes] – Rudy Sabounghi
- Design [Screen], Authoring – Patrick Buttmann
- Directed By [Staged] – Luc Bondy
- Ensemble – Les Arts Florissants
- Libretto By – Thomas Broughton
- Lighting – Dominique Brugière
- Management [Project] – Jacques-François Suzzoni
- Photography By – E. Carecchio*, E. Mahoudeau*
- Producer – François Duplat
- Realization – Vincent Bataillon
- Set Designer – Richard Peduzzi
- Vocals [Dejanira] – Joyce DiDonato
- Vocals [Hercules] – William Shimell
- Vocals [Hyllus] – Toby Spence
- Vocals [Iole] – Ingela Bohlin
- Vocals [Lichas] – Malena Ernman
- Vocals [Priest Of Jupiter] – Simon Kirkbride
Notes
Recorded: 22/12/2004© DVD, 2005.
Coproduction with: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence & Wiener Festwochen.
Video format: 16/9
Audio formats: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD 9 & DVD 5
All zones
Menu & Subtitles: French, English, German, Spanish.
32 page booklet in French, English & German including synopsis.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 3 760115 300132
- Other (Region Code): 0
