Flavio

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Flavio, re di Longobardi (or 'Flavio, King of the Lombards') is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Matteo Noris's Il Flavio Cuniberto.

It was Handel's fourth opera for the Royal Academy of Music.

[edit] Performance history

The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 14 May 1723 and revived on 18 April 1732. There were no further revivals until it was rediscovered and performed in Göttingen on 2 July 1969.

[edit] Roles

		Premiere 1723
Flavio	alto castrato	Gaetano Berenstadt
Guido	alto castrato	Senesino
Emilia	soprano	Francesca Cuzzoni
Vitige	soprano	Margherita Durastanti
Teodata	mezzo-soprano	Anastasia Robinson
Lotario	bass	Giuseppe Maria Boschi
Ugone	tenor	Alexander Gordon

[edit] Sources

Flavio by Anthony Hicks, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7