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La resurrezione (The Resurrection), HWV 47, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652–1728). Capece was court poet to Queen Marie Casimire of Poland , who was living in exile in Rome .
Carlo Sigismondo Capece (21 June 1652 in Rome – 12 March 1728 in Polistena) was an Italian dramatist and librettist. Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland , who was living in exile in Rome , and is best remembered today for the libretto of La resurrezione (HWV 47, 1708) a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel . [ 1 ]
The Resurrection (La Resurrezione) is a bronze and brass sculpture by Pericle Fazzini in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome. [1] Intended to capture the anguish of 20th century mankind living under the threat of nuclear war, La Resurrezione depicts Jesus rising from a nuclear crater in the Garden of Gethsemane. Fazzini summarized the action of ...
The Handel Reference Database (HRD) is the largest documentary collection on George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) and his times. [1] It was launched in January 2008 on the server of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University.
The oratorio's structure follows the liturgical year; Part I corresponding with Advent, Christmas and the life of Jesus, Part II with Lent, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, Part III with the end of the church year, dealing with the end of time, the Resurrection of the dead and Christ's glorification in heaven.
Its melody is first found in act 3 of Handel's 1705 opera Almira as a sarabande; [1] the score for this can be seen on page 81 of Vol. 55 [2] of Friedrich Chrysander.Handel then used the tune for the aria "Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa", or "Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose", for the character Piacere in part 2 of his 1707 oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (which was much later, in ...
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C.
La Passione di Cristo secondo S. Marco (1897) La Trasfigurazione di Cristo (1898) La Resurrezione di Lazzaro (1898) La Resurrezione di Cristo (1898) Il Natale del Redentore (1899) L'entrata di Cristo in Gerusalemme (1900) La Strage degli Innocenti (1900) Mosè (1900) Stabat Mater (1904) Il Giudizio Universale (1904) Dies Iste (1904) Transitus ...