Floridante

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Operas by George Frideric Handel

Almira (1705)
Florindo (1708)
Rodrigo (1707)
Agrippina (1709)
Rinaldo (1711)
Il pastor fido (1712)
Teseo (1713)
Amadigi di Gaula (1715)
Acis and Galatea (1718)
Radamisto (1720)
Muzio Scevola (1721)
Floridante (1721)
Ottone (1723)
Flavio (1723)
Giulio Cesare (1724)
Tamerlano (1724)
Rodelinda (1725)
Scipione (1726)
Alessandro (1726)
Admeto (1727)
Riccardo Primo (1727)
Siroe (1728)
Tolomeo (1728)
Lotario (1729)
Partenope (1730)
Poro (1731)
Ezio (1732)
Sosarme (1732)
Orlando (1733)
Arianna in Creta (1734)
Oreste (1734)
Ariodante (1735)
Alcina (1735)
Atalanta (1736)
Arminio (1737)
Giustino (1737)
Berenice (1737)
Alessandro Severo (1738)
Faramondo (1738)
Serse (1738)
Giove in Argo (1739)
Imeneo (1740)
Deidamia (1741)
Semele (1744)
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Floridante (HWV 14) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli after Francesco Silvani's La costanza in trionfo.

The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 9 December 1721 and again with revisions on 4 December 1722. It was revived in 1727 and 1733 and also performed in Hamburg. The next staging, and the first modern performance, took place at the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon on 10 May 1962.[1]

The manuscript of the final chorus from the opera was discovered in the 1930s, and filled out the autograph manuscript in the Royal collection at the British Museum.[2]

Contents

[edit] Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, December 9, 1721
(Conductor: - )
Floridante, Prince of Thrace alto castrato Senesino
Oronte, King of Persia bass Giuseppe Maria Boschi
Timante, Prince of Tyre soprano castrato Berselli
Rossane, Oronte's daughter soprano Maddalena Salvai
Elmira alto Anastasia Robinson
Coralbo, Persian satrap bass

[edit] Selected recordings

  • Floridante - Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (Rossane), Roberta Invernizzi (Timante), Joyce DiDonato (Elmira), Marijana Mijanovic (Floridante), Riccardo Novaro (Coralbo), Vito Priante (Oronte), Il complesso barocco, c. Alan Curtis. Deutsche Grammophon 289 477 6566.[3]
  • Floridante - Katalin Farkas (Rossane), Mária Zádori (Timante), Anette Markert (Elmira), Drew Minter (Floridante), József Moldvay (Coralbo), István Gáti (Oronte), Capella Savaria, c. Nicholas McGegan. Hungaroton.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dean, Winton, "Music in London: Abingdon - Handel's Floridante" (July 1962). The Musical Times, 103 (1433): pp. 476-481.
  2. ^ Smith, William C., "Recently-Discovered Handel Manuscripts" (April 1937). The Musical Times, 78 (1130): pp. 312-315.
  3. ^ George Loomis, Opera Magazine (UK), June 2007.

[edit] Sources

  • Dean, Winton & Knapp, J. Merrill (1987), Handel's Operas, 1704-1726, Clarendon Press, ISBN 0193152193  The first of the two volume definitive reference on the operas of Handel
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