Title: Turn not, O Queen, thy face away (Aria sung by Haman in Esther)
Music: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Text: Libretto by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope
Free at Art Song Central (PDF files):
- PDF: Turn not, O Queen, thy face away
- Key: D minor
- Range: C3 – D4
- Source: Songs and Airs by George Frideric Handel (Volume II, Low)
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Turn not, O Queen, thy face away,
Behold me prostrate on the ground!
O speak, his growing fury stay,
Let mercy in thy sight be found!
- Wikipedia has an entry for Esther
- Stanford hosts the libretto
