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| | | #REDIRECT [[George Frideric Handel]] |
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| ==Life==
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| ==Operas==
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| ===The Royal Academy (1719-28)===
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| ===The Royal Academy (1729-34)===
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| ===Covent Garden (1734-37)===
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| Covent Garden opened at the end of 1732. Spoken plays constituted most of the repertory that the theater initially offered to the public. The idea of interleaving opera performances a few nights week created an opening for Handel. While <i>Ariodante</i> was taking shape, Handel composed ballet music for a revival of <i>Il pastor fido</i> and assembled the pastiche <i>Oreste</i>, both of which were performed at the theater late in 1734.
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| ====<i>Ariodante</i> (HWV 33)====
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| Handel's <i>Ariodante</i> was composed between August and October 1734. It was the first new opera entirely by him to be performed at Convent Garden.
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| Antonio Salvi's text (then called <i>Ginevra in Scozia</i>) was originally composed in 1708 for a production (with music by Giacomo Perti) at Pratolino (Florence). It became better known through Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's setting (as <i>Ariodante</i>) for San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, in November 1716. It was this opera production that launched the stellar career of Faustina Bordoni, whose voice was by now celebrated throughout Europe.
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| Mark Stahura's 1994 edition of <i>Ariodante</i>, made under contract with the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) in collaboration with Frances Bennion and Edmund Correia Jr., is available online. [[Ariodante]] score and parts. It is based on Handel's manuscript in the British Library.
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| ====<i>Alcina</i> (HWV 34)====
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| ====<i>Atalanta</i> (HWV 35)====
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| ====<i>Arminio</i> (HWV 36)====
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| ====<i>Giustino</i> (HWV 37)====
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| ====<i>Berenice</i> (HWV 38)====
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| ==Oratorios==
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| ==Instrumental Music==
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| ==References==
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