Handel wrote Floridante in 1722 for a London audience infatuated with Italian opera. The plot, like that of so many Baroque operas, was taken from ancient history and concerns romantic liaisons thrown into turmoil by political rivalries, in this case between Persia and Tyre. Handel wrote over 50 Italian operas, and it's remarkable that he was ...
Handel's 1715 opera seria Amadigi di Gaula was one of his earliest and best received works for the London stage. In terms of the conventions of modern stagecraft and the expectations of opera audiences, it's something of a hard sell, though. It has only four characters, and all are high voices -- two sopranos, mezzo, and countertenor (or alto), ...
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