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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 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 London's Haymarket on 24 February 1711.
(Rinaldo, Almirena, Armida, Goffredo, Argante) Conductor, Opera House and/or Orchestra Notes Label 1977 [1] Carolyn Watkinson, Ileana Cotrubaș, Jeanette Scovotti, Paul Esswood, Ulrik Cold: Jean-Claude Malgoire, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy: Sony Music Entertainment: 1989 [2] Marilyn Horne, Cecilia Gasdia, Christine Weidinger, Ernesto ...
Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Il pastor fido" 456-2 Arrangement c. 1720–1727 Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Amadigi" 456-3 Arrangement c. 1720–1727 Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Flavio" 456-4 Arrangement c. 1720–1727 Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Rodelinda" 456-5
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 ...
Armida (Hob. XXVIII/12) is a 1784 opera (dramma eroico) in three acts by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, set to an Italian-language libretto taken from Antonio Tozzi's 1775 opera Rinaldo, as amended by Nunziato Porta [], and ultimately based on the story of Armida and Rinaldo in Torquato Tasso's poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered).
Rinaldo, Op. 50, is a cantata for tenor solo, four-part male chorus and orchestra by German composer Johannes Brahms. It was begun in 1863 as an entry for a choral competition announced in Aachen .
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.
A tremendous success, Rinaldo created a craze in London for Italian opera seria, a form focused overwhelmingly on solo arias for the star virtuoso singers. In 1719, Handel was appointed music director of an organisation called the Royal Academy of Music (unconnected with the present-day London conservatoire), a company under royal charter to ...