*) "Ombra mai fu."
An opera set in this country begins with the narrator apologizing for its lack of any recitatives. A composer from this country wrote an opera in which a sorceress summons a deceitful spirit disguised as Mercury. Johann Christoph Pepusch composed the music for a ballad opera from this country that was adapted into Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. A composer who worked in this country wrote the aria (*) "Ombra mai fu." In an opera from this country, the soprano lead asks for "Thy hand, Belinda" and cries "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate" in the aria "When I am laid in Earth." That character's namesake "Lament" occurs after a prince of Troy sails from Carthage. For 10 points, name this country in which Dido and Aeneas was written by Henry Purcell.
An opera set in this country begins with the narrator apologizing for its lack of any recitatives.
England [or the U.K.; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; accept any underlined portion] 