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Almirena's recitative, and few bars of "Lascia ch'io pianga", from Handel's 1711 autograph score 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 stage. The libretto was prepared by Giacomo Rossi from a scenario provided by Aaron Hill, and the work was first performed at the Queen's Theatre in ...
Four years after that, in 1711, Handel used the music again, this time for his London opera Rinaldo and its act 2 aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" ("Let me weep"), a heartfelt plea for her liberty addressed by the character Almirena to her abductor Argante. Rinaldo was a triumph, and it is with this work that the aria is chiefly associated.
This is a discography of George Frideric Handel's opera Rinaldo, which premiered on 24 February 1711 at the Queen's Theatre in London. Year Cast (Rinaldo, Almirena,
Time and Disillusion are personified (thus spelled with an initial capital even in Italian). Comprising two sections, the oratorio was premiered that summer in Rome. One of its famous arias is Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa (Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose), later recast as "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Leave Me to Weep) in the opera Rinaldo.
Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft (HG) and the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA), but the more recent Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (HWV) publication is now commonly used to number his works. For example, Handel's Messiah can be referred to as: HG xlv, HHA i/17, or HWV 56. [1]
Rinaldo: Giacomo Rossi/Aaron Hill, after Tasso, La Gerusalemme liberata Italian libretto: 24 February 1711: London, Queen's Theatre: June 1954, Handel Festival, Halle: HWV 7b is the 1731 revision; the libretto of a revision of 1717 also exists: 8a/b/c: Il pastor fido: Giacomo Rossi, after Giovanni Battista Guarini 8b Italian libretto, 8c ...
Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The Rose from Armida's Garden by Marie Spartali Stillman (1894) In Tasso's epic Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: Gerusalemme liberata), Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and ...
Rinaldo (Jerusalem Liberated), a character in a 1580 epic poem by Tasso Rinaldo, a 1711 Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, based on the above character; Rinaldo, an 1863 cantata by Johannes Brahms, based on the above character; HMS Rinaldo, one of four ships of the name launched between 1808 and 1943 by the Royal Navy