Giustino

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Operas by George Frideric Handel

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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)
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Giustino (or Justin) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Pietro Pariati's Giustino, after Nicolo Beregan's Il Giustino.

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[edit] Performance history

The opera was first given at the Covent Garden Theatre in London on 16 February 1737 and on 8 further occasions. It was also performed in Brunswick in August 1741. The first modern performance was in Abingdon on 21 April 1963. The first London performance since Handel's time was in November 1983.[1] It was also produced at the Komische Oper, Berlin by Harry Kupfer in 1985.

[edit] Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, February 16, 1737
(Conductor: - )
Anastasio castrato Gioacchino Conti (Gizziello)
Arianna, widow of the emperor soprano Anna Maria Strada
Giustino alto castrato Domenico Annibali
Leocasta alto Francesca Bertolli
Amanzio alto Maria Caterina Negri
Vitaliano tenor John Beard
Polidarte bass Thomas Reinhold
La Fortuna boy soprano William Savage

[edit] Selected recordings

  • (1994, Göttingen). Michael Chance, Dorothea Röschmann, Dawn Kotoski, Jennifer Lane, Mark Padmore, Drew Minter, Dean Ely, Juliana Gondek, Freiburger Barockorchester cond. Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi France HMU 907130.32

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Dean, Winton, "Music in London: Handel Operas" (January 1984). The Musical Times, 125 (1691): pp. 36-37.

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