mp3 Excerpts from Agamemnon

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The following excerpts are drawn from the live recordings of the April 2003 full-stage production of Agamemnon, performed by The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

If you prefer, while this page is in progress, you can listen to (and watch, connection speed permitting) all of the April 2003 performances in their entirety by clicking here.

Excerpts

    Prologue (Instrumental)

     Scene 1 (Watchman)

     Chorus I ("Ten Years Ago . . . ")

     Aria (Klytemnestra): "Troy is Fallen, Troy is Taken"

     Chorus II ("O Lord Zeus")

     Aria (Herald): "Hail, Land of Argos"

     Chorus III ("Helen")

    Chorus: "Hail, Agamemnon!"

    Aria (Agamemnon): "Smoke Marks Out the Conquered City"

    Aria (Klytemnestra): "A Woman Abandoned"

     Aria (Klytemnestra): "The Sea is There"

     Chorus IV ("Why Does This Hovering Fear . . . ?")

    Aria (Kassandra): "Woe for the Marriage of Paris"

     Scena (Klytemnestra, Chorus): "Lies!"

     Aria (Aegisthus): "Atreus, More Cruel than Kind"

     Finale (Aegisthus, Chorus, Klytemnestra)