The eighteenth-century pasticcio, a rather uncomplimentary term meaning ‘hotch-potch’, was an opera written by several composers. One example was Muzio Scevola (1721), which was based on the story of an early Roman hero who burned his hand to ashes in a fire rather than assist the Etruscan enemies of Rome. Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747) and George Frideric Handel ...
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