comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. He began composing operas in
to modest success. It wasn't until he came to
that he truly found great success in the genre. His first opera in England,
(1711), was met with enthusiasm, and several more Italian operas soon followed. However,
's place as the central figure of opera in England during the eighteenth century was not solidified until, under the influence of Thomas Arne, he began composing large-scale works with English language texts. Though almost all of his English language works are technically
was his principal concern, Handel adhered closely to the typical form of the era, determined by the precedence given to solo
and to stage presentation in which set changes were made in front of the audience and the curtain not lowered until the work's conclusion.
form (though frequently with an abridged return to the chief section), dominate the operas, and scenes are normally devised to start with several characters on stage, each of whom sings an aria and then exits. The last scene typically concludes with a coro sung by the soloists; ensembles are otherwise atypical and mainly limited to scenes of communal celebration; only "Dall’orror" in Act 3 of
(1735) reaches the depth of the choruses in the English choral works. Handel’s operas therefore seem to be highly similar to those of his contemporaries; what makes them unique is the brilliance of the music which skillfully conveys with instant fervor the emotional states of the characters within the context of the drama.
Handel's earlier operas tended to be of a lighter nature, although there are intermittent moments, such as the prison scene from
(1705), which are highly dramatic. Handel's music for his first operas in England was often derived from musical ideas and idioms found in his
(1706–09). For example, the characteristic harmonic structure of
(1709) is obviously a retention of material from this Italian period. In general, the orchestrations of Handel's earlier operas tended to be richer and smoother than in his later works, utilizing additional instruments like
s to achieve different tone colours. The music for
s, an instrumental choice that Handel never repeated elsewhere.
during the 1720s. With the exception of
(1723), the operas from this period are more serious in tone and the musical expression is more astutely aligned to the opera's drama than in his earlier operas. Of particular importance from this period is
(1724), which contains one of Handel's most expansive and emotively powerful scores. The sumptuous music and deft characterizations found in this work has made it one of the more frequently revived Handel operas during the 20th and 21st centuries. Also of note are
(1725) which have particularly striking leading tenor roles that Handel wrote specifically for Francesco Borosini. The later operas that Handel wrote for the Academy were not as successful as his earlier ones. The two major sopranos at the Academy,
, were intensely competitive, and Handel had to cater to them both equally in these latter Academy operas. With the exception of
(1727), the attempt at balancing two leading soprano roles within an individual opera proved to hinder the work both musically and dramatically.
During the 1730s, Handel returned to writing operas of a comic and fantastic or heroic nature, largely because he no longer had to cater to the tastes of the Academy when choosing librettos. These works, such as
and are written in a pre-classical manner. During this period, Handel began to more frequently utilize the
in his works, and by the mid-1730s he was writing some of his most dramatically moving arias, such as the mad scene of
. The size of the orchestras for these works was also larger, with Handel typically employing 12
s in addition to four bassoons and a number of other wind instruments. In operas like
(1734), Handel attempted to synthesize Italian opera with French opera in the sequences of dances and choruses , but made no further experimentation in this area outside of the operas of 1734 and 1735. Two of the operas from this period,
(1736), were a departure from the traditionally heroic librettos used by Handel, adopting a more realistic romantic intimacy.
By the late 1730s, Handel's attention was increasingly diverted away from composing operas and was much more focused on the English oratorio. A number of his operas from 1737 on lack the brilliance of his eariler works, most likely due to this shift in focus. Nevertheless, his operas
(1738) contain some very fine music.
is also notable for successfully mixing comedy and poignant tragedy into a masterfully crafted plot, a development repeated less successfully in
(1740). Handel's last Italian opera,
, was produced in 1741 and was not received very well as England's taste for Italian opera had waned. Handel returned one more time to theatre music for the
The following is a complete list of Handel's operatic works. All are
| HWV The Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis is the Catalogue of Handel's Works. It was published in three and a half volumes by Bernd Baselt between 1978 and 1986, and lists every piece of music known to have been written by George Frideric Handel...
| |Libretto | |Première place, theatre | Almira Almira, Königin von Castilien or Der in Krohnen erlangte Glückswechsel, is George Frideric Handel's first opera.-Background:Handel came to the city of Hamburg in the summer of 1703 and played as a violinist in the theatre at the Gänsemarkt, the local market place...
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Some music lost; announced as a Singspiel A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias...
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Nero (Die durch Blut und Mord erlangete Liebe) |
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Florindo Der beglückte Florindo is an opera composed by Handel at the request of Reinhard Keiser, the manager of the Hamburg Opera. It was first performed at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in January 1708...
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Daphne (Die verwandelte Daphne) |
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Rodrigo Rodrigo is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel. Its original title was Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria . The opera is based on the historical figure of Rodrigo, the last Visigothic king of Hispania...
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II duello d'Amore e di Vendetta
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| Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
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Innsbruck Innsbruck is the capital city of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some south of Innsbruck...
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Agrippina Agrippina is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel, from a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the 1709–10 Venice Carnevale season, the opera tells the story of Agrippina, the mother of Nero, as she plots the downfall of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the...
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Vincenzo Grimani Vincenzo Grimani was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and opera librettist.Grimani was born either in Venice or Mantua....
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, Teatro San Giovanni GrisostomoThe Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo, now known as the Teatro Malibran, is an opera house in Venice. Founded in 1678 by the Grimani family, it was founded primarily to provide entertainment for the aristocracy and to advance the social position of the Grimani family, and was not expected to be a...
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RinaldoRinaldo is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, now a part of the standard operatic repertoire. The Italian libretto was written by Giacomo Rossi based on episodes of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata...
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Aaron Hill Aaron Hill was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.The son of a country gentleman of Wiltshire, Hill was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards travelled in the East. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of Voltaire's Zaire and Merope, being adaptations...
, after Tasso-People:*Torquato Tasso, the famous Italian 16th-century poet, author of Gerusalemme liberata*Bernardo Tasso, his father, also a poet-Places:*Tasso, Corse-du-Sud, a commune on Corsica, France*Tasso River, a river in Mumbai, India...
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| London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
, Queen's TheatreHer Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre...
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Il pastor fido Il pastor fido is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was set to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on the famed and widely familiar pastoral poem of the same name by Giovanni Battista Guarini.-Performance history:...
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Giovanni Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.- Life :He was born in Ferrara, and spent his early life both in Padua and Ferrara, entering the service of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1567...
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GöttingenGöttingen is a college town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...
(third, November 1734 version); 14 September 1971, AbingdonAbingdon is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire in Southern England. It is the seat of the Vale of White Horse district. Previously the county town of Berkshire, Abingdon is one of several places which claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town...
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HWV 8b/c are the revivals of May and November 1734 |
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Teseo Teseo is an opera seria with music by George Frideric Handel, the only Handel opera that is in five acts. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Philippe Quinault's Thésée...
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Nicola Francesco Haym Nicola Francesco Haym , was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer. He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini...
, after Philippe QuinaultPhilippe Quinault , French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.He was educated by the liberality of Tristan L'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen...
's libretto for ThéséeThésée is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Metamorphoses first performed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 11 January 1675....
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Silla Silla is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Giacomo Rossi. The story concerns the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla as recounted by Plutarch.The opera appears to have been a pièce d'occasion, whicht may have been performed only once...
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PlutarchPlutarch, born Plutarchos then, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. AD 46 – 120, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
's Life of SullaPlutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st Century...
Italian libretto |
| London, Queen's Theatre? (or Burlington HouseBurlington House is a building on Piccadilly in London. It was originally a private Palladian mansion, and was expanded in the mid 19th century after being purchased by the British government...
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Amadigi di Gaula Amadigi di Gaula is an opera with music by George Frideric Handel. The identity of the librettist is not known for certain. Previous consensus had been that John Jacob Heidegger was the librettist, but more recent research has indicated that that the librettist was more likely to be Giacomo Rossi,...
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Antoine Houdar de la Motte Antoine Houdar de la Motte , was a French author.He was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux, was a complete failure, and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappists. Four years later he began writing operas and ballets, e.g...
's Amadis de Grèce, 1699
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| London, King's TheatreHer Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre...
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Osnabrück Osnabrück is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 80 km NNE of Dortmund, 45 km NE of Münster, and some 100 km due west of Hannover. It lies in a valley penned between the Wiehengebirge and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest...
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Various additions during the initial run and the revivals of 1716 and 1717 |
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Radamisto Radamisto is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on L'amor tirannico, o Zenobia by Domenico Lalli and Zenobia by Matteo Noris...
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Muzio Scevola Muzio Scevola is an opera in three acts. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first act was composed by Filippo Amadei , the second act by Giovanni Bononcini, and the third by George Frideric Handel...
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Paolo Antonio Rolli Paolo Antonio Rolli was an Italian librettist and poet.He was born in Rome, Italy and like Metastasio was trained by Gian Vincenzo Gravina. He worked in London from 1715–44...
, after a reworking of a Nicolò MinatoCount Nicolò Minato was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669 until his death....
libretto by Silvio Stampiglia
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EssenEssen is a city in the central part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Located on the Ruhr River, its population of approximately 579,000 makes it either the 7th- or 8th-largest-city in Germany...
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Floridante Floridante is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli after Francesco Silvani's La costanza in trionfo....
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Ottone Ottone, re di Germania is an opera by George Frideric Handel, to an Italian-language libretto adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym from the libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino for Antonio Lotti's opera Teofane. It was the first new opera written for the Royal Academy of Music's fourth season...
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Antonio Lotti Antonio Lotti was an Italian composer of classical music.Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time. In 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi, both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica, Venice's principal church...
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| London, King’s Theatre |
| Revised versions premiered in 1726 and 1733 |
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Flavio Flavio, re di Longobardi is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Matteo Noris's Il Flavio Cuniberto. It was Handel's fourth full-length opera for the Royal Academy of Music...
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Giulio CesareGiulio Cesare in Egitto is an Italian opera in three acts written by George Frideric Handel in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym.-Performance history:...
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Tamerlano Tamerlano is an opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet.One of Handel's major works, he...
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KarlsruheKarlsruhe is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border....
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Rodelinda Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was based on a libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, in turn based on an earlier libretto by Antonio Salvi...
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Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
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Scipione Scipione is an opera in three acts, with music composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1726. The librettist was Paolo Antonio Rolli. Handel composed Scipione whilst in the middle of writing Alessandro...
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Alessandro Alessandro is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726. Paolo Rolli was the librettist and based the story on Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro. This was the first opera where Handel had cast together in the same opera the famous singers Faustina Bordoni, as Rossane, and...
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StuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
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Admeto Admeto, re di Tessaglia is a three-act opera with music composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian-language libretto prepared by Nicola Haym. The story is partly based on Euripedes' Alcestis. The opera's first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727...
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Riccardo Primo Riccardo Primo, re d’Inghilterra is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani's Isacio tiranno, set by Antonio Lotti in 1710...
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Sadler's Wells TheatreSadler's Wells Theatre is the name of six theatres that have been built since 1683 at a site on Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. The present day theatre seats 1,500 and specialises in dance, ranging from ballet to hip hop, contemporary dance to flamenco...
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Siroe Siroe, re di Persia is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Metastasio's Siroe. Like all of Metastasio's libretti, it was also set by Handel's contemporaries, ex...
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MetastasioPietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...
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Gera Gera, the third-largest city in the German state of Thuringia , lies in east Thuringia on the river Weiße Elster , approximately 60 kilometres to the south of the city of Leipzig and 80 kilometers to the east of Erfurt...
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Tolomeo Tolomeo, re d'Egitto is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's Tolomeo et Alessandro.-Musical style:...
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Lotario Lotario is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Antonio Salvi's Adelaide.-Performance history:...
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Kenton Theatre The Kenton Theatre is an old theatre in the town of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.The theatre was founded 7 November 1805 and is the fourth oldest working theatre in the United Kingdom. It is staffed by volunteers...
, Henley-on-ThamesHenley-on-Thames is a town on the north side of the River Thames in south Oxfordshire, England, about 10 miles downstream and north-east from Reading, 10 miles upstream and west from Maidenhead...
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Partenope Partenope is an opera by George Frideric Handel, first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 24 February, 1730.-Background:...
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PoroPoro, re dell'Indie is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Alessandro nell'Indie by Metastasio, and based on Alexander the Great's encounter with King Porus in 326 BC.Graham Cummings has examined in detail the composition history...
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BraunschweigBraunschweig , known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245,810 people , located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser...
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Ezio Ezio is an opera by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Metastasio's libretto was partly inspired by Jean Racine's play Britannicus...
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Sosarme Sosarme, re di Media is an opera by George Frideric Handel. The text was based on an earlier libretto by Antonio Salvi, Dionisio, Re di Portogallo , and adapted by an unknown writer. Composed in 1732, the original setting of Portugal was changed to Sardis in Lydia...
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Orlando Orlando is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's L'Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel's operas Alcina and Ariodante.-Performance history:The opera was first...
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Ludovico AriostoLudovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romantic epic poem Orlando Furioso . The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with...
's Orlando furiosoOrlando Furioso is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532...
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Arianna in Creta Arianna in Creta is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Pietro Pariati's Arianna e Teseo.-Performance history:...
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Oreste Oreste is an opera by George Frideric Handel in three acts. The libretto was anonymously adapted from Giangualberto Barlocci’s L’Oreste , which was in turn adapted from Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris....
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| London, Covent Garden TheatreThe Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal...
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Ariodante Ariodante is an opera seria in three acts by Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso...
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Alcina Alcina is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. The libretto's author is unknown, but the plot is taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, an epic poem set in the time of Charlemagne's wars against Islam...
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LeipzigLeipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
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Atalanta Atalanta is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel composed in 1736. It is based upon the mythological female athlete, Atalanta, the libretto being derived from the book La Caccia in Etolia by Belisario Valeriani...
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Hintlesham Hintlesham is a small village in Suffolk, England, situated roughly halfway between Ipswich and Hadleigh.The village is notable for Hintlesham Hall, a 16th Century Grade I listed country house that was restored and turned into a hotel by the famous chef, restaurateur and food writer Robert Carrier...
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Arminio Arminio is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel.- Performance History :Together with Giustino and Berenice, Arminio is one of three operas Handel wrote within a period of half a year in 1736. He began with the composition of Giustino on 14 August 1736, followed by that of Arminio on 15...
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Giustino Giustino is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Pietro Pariati's Giustino, after Nicolo Beregan's Il Giustino.-Performance history:...
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Berenice Berenice, regina d'Egitto is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Antonio Salvi originally written in Italy in 1709....
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Alessandro Severo Alessandro Severo is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1738. It is one of Handel's three pasticcio works, made up of the music and arias of his previous operas Giustino, Berenice and Arminio...
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Royal College of MusicThe Royal College of Music is a conservatoire located in the South Kensington district of London, England.-Background:The Royal College of Music's building, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, is situated on Prince Consort Road in the district of South Kensington, next to Imperial College, directly...
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Pasticcio A pasticcio is an Italian term for a type of opera or a piece of music. Literally the term refers back to Greco-Roman dish pastitsio or pasticcio, which designated a kind of pie made of many different ingredients, sometimes translated as a "hodge-podge"...
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Faramondo Faramondo is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text adapted from Apostolo Zeno's Faramondo.-Performance history:...
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Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno was an Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.-Early Life:Apostolo Zeno was born of Cretan Greek descent in Venice in 1669...
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Serse Serse is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The libretto is adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694. Stampiglia's libretto was itself...
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| Giove in Argo Giove in Argo is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was written by Antonio Maria Lucchini.It was first performed in King's Theatre, Haymarket, London on May 1, 1739.- History :...
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Markgräfliches Opernhaus The Markgräfliches Opernhaus is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth in Germany. It is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and has been extensively restored...
, BayreuthBayreuth is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb and the Fichtelgebirge...
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Pasticcio A pasticcio is an Italian term for a type of opera or a piece of music. Literally the term refers back to Greco-Roman dish pastitsio or pasticcio, which designated a kind of pie made of many different ingredients, sometimes translated as a "hodge-podge"...
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| Imeneo Imeneo is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Silvio Stampiglia's Imeneo. Handel had begun composition in September 1738, but did not complete the score until 1740...
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| London, theatre in Lincoln's Inn FieldsLincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, England. It is thought to have been one of the inspirations of Central Park, New York. It was laid out in part by Inigo Jones from the early 17th century and opened to the public after its acquisition by London County Council in 1895...
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| Deidamia Deidamia was George Frideric Handel's last Italian opera. The Italian text was by Paolo Antonio Rolli.-Performance history:The opera was first performed on 10 January 1741 at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London. The opera received only three performances, at a time when the public was becoming...
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