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    Muzio Scevola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmuttsjo ʃˈʃeːvola]; "Mucius Scaevola", HWV 13) is an opera seria in three acts about Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The...
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    Mutio Scevola or Muzio Scevola (Mucius Scaevola) is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli, with a libretto by...
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    this time also appeared the pasticcio, an opera composed jointly by several composers. The first was Muzio Scevola (1721), which consisted of three acts each...
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  • This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785). Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno, Venice, Teatro San Moisè...
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  • George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language...
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  • Ombra mai fu (category Opera excerpts)
    "Largo from Xerxes" or "Handel's Largo", is the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel. "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fu"...
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    Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1711, and was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London...
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    This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...
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  • 1721 in music (section Opera)
    WSW 20 Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini & George Frideric Handel – Muzio Scevola Giovanni Bononcini – Crispo George Frideric Handel – Floridante, HWV...
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  • Maria Bononcini (1677–1726): Griselda Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747): Muzio Scevola, Xerse, Griselda, Almahide, Camilla Alexander Borodin (1833–1887): Prince...
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    Francesco Cavalli (category Italian opera composers)
    dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central figure of Venetian musical life, Cavalli wrote more than forty operas, almost all of...
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  • (401–450) Operas Arsace London, Royal Academy of Music, 1st Feb. 1721. Muzio Scevola Act 1, London, Royal Academy of Music, 15 April 1721. Muzio Scevola. Palmer...
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    Serse (redirect from Xerxes (opera))
    (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛrse]; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in...
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    Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian libretto was...
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    Germany, where he remained until 1706. During this period he composed four operas, only the first of which, Almira, has survived more or less intact. Of the...
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    Agrippina (HWV 6) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the 1709–10 Venice...
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    Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi (HWV 19) is an opera seria in three acts composed for the first Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel. The...
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  • has made premiere recordings of a number of Handel operas (including Deidamia, Siroe, Muzio Scevola, Sosarme, and Berenice). She has also sung works by...
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    Anastasia Robinson (category 18th-century British women opera singers)
    originated many new roles, most notably Zenobia (Radamisto), Irene (Muzio Scevola), Elmira (Floridante), Matilda (Ottone), Teodata (Flavio) and, most...
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    Daphne (Handel) (category Opera world premieres at the Hamburg State Opera)
    Metamorphosed), HWV 4, is an opera composed by Handel for the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg in 1706, to a libretto by Hinrich Hinsch. The opera, based on the Daphne...
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    pastor fido Teseo Silla Amadigi di Gaula Acis and Galatea Radamisto Muzio Scevola Floridante Ottone Flavio Giulio Cesare Tamerlano Rodelinda Scipione...
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    Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, Berenice, regina d'Egitto, or Berenice, Queen...
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    Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola Robert Coates, Canadian politician Alexina Louie: Mulroney: The Opera Howell Cobb, American political figure...
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    George Frideric Handel (category English opera composers)
    14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received...
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    Lascia ch'io pianga (category Opera excerpts)
    popular concert piece. Its melody is first found in act 3 of Handel's 1705 opera Almira as a sarabande; the score for this can be seen on page 81 of Vol...
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  • pastor fido Teseo Silla Amadigi di Gaula Acis and Galatea Radamisto Muzio Scevola Floridante Ottone Flavio Giulio Cesare Tamerlano Rodelinda Scipione...
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  • pastor fido Teseo Silla Amadigi di Gaula Acis and Galatea Radamisto Muzio Scevola Floridante Ottone Flavio Giulio Cesare Tamerlano Rodelinda Scipione...
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    Paolo Rolli (category Italian opera librettists)
    period, he wrote librettos for numerous Italian operas including Handel's Floridante (1721), Muzio Scevola (1722), Riccardo Primo (1927) and Deidamia (1741)...
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    Semele (Handel) (category Operas by George Frideric Handel)
    by George Frideric Handel. Based on an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, the work is an opera in all but name but was first presented in concert...
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    Alcina (category Opera seria)
    Alcina (HWV 34) is a 1735 opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by...
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