Saale des Gewandhauses zu Leipzig, Donnerstag, den 30. Januar 1845. Erster VheiM, Ouvertüre zu der Oper ,,die Bräute von Venedig 44 von J. Benedict. (Neu — Manuscript.) Becitativ und Arie aus „Herkules“ von G. F. Händel, gesungen von Miss Lincoln. Recitativ. See Hercules, how smiles yon myrthle plain, where numerous sparkling rills meandring glide; ’tis there I’ fix my jocund reign, ’tis there my laughing train reside. There smokes the feast, enhanc’d by musie’s sound; fitest to tune the metting soul to love; Rieh odours breathing choicest sweets aroused; the fragrant bower, c ool fountain, shady grove. Thither thy happy footsteps will I lead: iresh flower’s shall bind thy brow; fresh flower’s shall strew thy bed. A r i e. There the brisk sparkling nectar drain, Cool’d with the purest summer snows: . There tir’d with sporting on the plain, Beneath the woodbine shade repose. There as serene thou lies’t along, Soft warbling voices metting lays Shall sweetly pone the tender song To love, on beauty’s rapt’rous praise