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    Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which...
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  • Mezzo-soprano (category Italian opera terminology)
    mezzo-soprano roles in operas (*denotes a lead role): Angelina (Cenerentola), La Cenerentola (Rossini)* Ariodante, Ariodante (Handel)* Baba the Turk...
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    (1724), Rodelinda (1725), Admeto (1727), Tolomeo (1728), Orlando (1732), Ariodante (1735), Alcina (1735), Serse (1738) and Imeneo (1740). His regular librettist...
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  • 1735 Ariodante (Handel). Both this opera and Alcina enjoy high critical reputations today. 1735 Alcina (Handel). Both this work and Ariodante were part...
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    his first season of opera for the theatre was not presented until 1734. His first opera was Il pastor fido, followed by Ariodante (1735), and the première...
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    Sarah Connolly (category 20th-century British women opera singers)
    Handel Ariodante (Ariodante) New York City Opera Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Romeo) George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (Ariodante) George...
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    Vincenzo Bellini Ariodante by George Frideric Handel The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner Louis Riel (opera) by Harry...
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    Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel's operas Alcina and Ariodante. More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances...
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    Anthony Roth Costanzo (category American opera singers)
    Michigan Opera Theater (Giulio Cesare) New York City Opera (Partenope) Juilliard Opera (Ariodante) Manhattan School of Music (Griffelkin) Seattle Opera Young...
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    This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...
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  • George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language...
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    complete list of the operas performed by The Santa Fe Opera (Santa Fe, New Mexico) since its inception in 1957. Only complete operas presented on stage...
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    Joyce DiDonato (category Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners)
    title role in Handel's Ariodante at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. She also sang Roméo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Opéra Bastille and returned...
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  • Coloratura soprano (category Italian opera terminology)
    Adèle, Le comte Ory (Rossini) Cunegonde, Candide (Bernstein) Dalinda, Ariodante (Handel) Dinorah, Le pardon de Ploërmel (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Dorinda, Orlando...
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  • Retrieved 18 April 2019. "Ariodante". www.bolshoi.ru. "The Times". The Times. "John Berry launches not-for-profit opera company". Rhinegold. Retrieved...
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    Alcina (category Opera seria)
    Ariosto's Orlando furioso (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante), an epic poem. The opera contains several musical sequences with opportunity...
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    Breeches role (category Opera terminology)
    Händel's Alcina: "Ruggiero" is sung by a mezzo-soprano Händel's Ariodante: The role of "Ariodante" was premiered by a soprano-castrato and is performed today...
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    productions of Don Pasquale, Ariodante and The Two Widows. The aim must be to create a new audience that does not see opera as a middle class trophy art...
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  • Alessandro, Alessandro Severo, Almira, Amadigi di Gaula, Arianna in Creta, Ariodante, Arminio, Atalanta, Berenice, Deidamia, Ezio, Faramondo, Flavio, Floridante...
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  • Christine Rice (category 21st-century British women opera singers)
    the Royal Opera House Ariodante in Handel's Ariodante at the Bavarian State Opera Arsace in Handel's Partenope at the English National Opera Béatrice in...
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  • Richard Jones CBE (born 7 June 1953) is a British theatre and opera director. He was born in London, and studied at the University of Hull and University...
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    Anne Sofie von Otter (category 20th-century Swedish women opera singers)
    Handel: Agrippina conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner (1997) Philips Ariodante conducted by Marc Minkowski (1999) Archiv Giulio Cesare conducted by Marc...
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    Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, Berenice, regina d'Egitto, or Berenice, Queen...
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    Agrippina (HWV 6) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the 1709–10 Venice...
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    Giacomo Tritto (category Italian opera composers)
    Rome) Ginevra e Ariodante (opera seria, libretto by Domenico Piccinni, 1801, Naples) Gli americani (Gonzalvo ossia Gli americani) (opera seria, libretto...
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  • Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and Un ballo in maschera, George Frideric Handel's Ariodante, Hector Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust, Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde...
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  • anniversary with presentations of Ariodante, Alcina, Flavio, Teseo and Tolomeo. 2010: Autumn: Promised End, a new opera by Alexander Goehr; and The Duenna...
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    Serse (redirect from Xerxes (opera))
    (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛrse]; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in...
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    Christiane Lutz (category German opera directors)
    Christiane Lutz (born 1980 in Mainz) is a German opera director. Lutz lives in Vienna, where she began studying theatre studies, art history, musicology...
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  • Ombra mai fu (category Opera excerpts)
    as "Largo from Xerxes" or "Handel's Largo", is the opening aria from the opera Serse (1738) by George Frideric Handel. "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra...
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