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Composed in 1725, Rodelinda is remarkable for its quality. Handel composed many exceptional accompanied recitatives for Senesino throughout their collaborations, and in this opera the dethroned King Bertarido, believed dead by his steadfast wife, laments his misfortune in an accompanied recitative and aria, ‘Pompe vane di morte! … Dove sei amato bene’, which shows Handel ...

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J. S. Bach and Handel. His recordings include Handel’s Messiah and Solomon, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and B minor Mass. He made his stage debut as Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda at Glyndebourne in 1998. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Peter Schreier | Contemporary | Classical ...

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• Late Baroque
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1696–1778, Italian Singer Cuzzoni was born and trained in Parma, where she gave her first performance in 1714. She first appeared with Faustina Bordoni in Venice in 1718, and they sang together several times during the early 1720s. Her London debut in Handel’s Ottone (1722) was a sensation. Handel composed notable roles for her including Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare ...

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• Late Baroque

project did not always run smoothly, the Academy initially was a success and several of Handel’s finest stage works, including Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724), Tamerlano (1724) and Rodelinda (1725), were written for these Academy seasons. Handel, meanwhile, had acquired English nationality and his acceptance by London society was reflected in his adoption of an anglicized form ...

• Personalities
• Late Baroque
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the famous singers Cuzzoni and Senesino, for whom Handel created Giulio Cesare in Egitto. The following season, the arrival of the tenor Francesco Borosini influenced Tamerlano (1724) and Rodelinda (1725). The addition of a second prima donna, the soprano Faustina, heralded the Royal Academy’s last phase – known as the ‘Rival Queens’ era – and in operas ...

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• Late Baroque
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1678–1729, Italian Haym was the skilful literary adaptor who prepared several of Handel’s best opera libretti, including Radamisto, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Tamerlano and Rodelinda. Rather than writing new texts for Handel, Haym’s talent was reorganizing old Italian texts so that they were adequately dramatic and balanced while also reducing the amount of simple recitative for ...