(1761) Acis and Galatea, by Nicolas Poussin (c. 1629–1630) Acis and Galatea, by Nicolas Bertin Acis und Galatea, by Jacob van Schuppen (c. 1730) Acis, Galatea...
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Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata...
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Acis y Galatea is a zarzuela by Antonio de Literes to a libretto by José de Cañizares. It was first performed on 19 December 1708 in Madrid at the theatre...
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Polyphemus and is linked with Polyphemus again in the myth of Acis and Galatea in Ovid's Metamorphoses. She is also mentioned in Virgil's Eclogues and Aeneid...
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George Frideric Handel Acis and Galatea, or Acis et Galatée, a 1686 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully Acis (disambiguation) Galatea (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Polyphemus (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
throwing the huge rock that kills Acis and even injures Galatea. Later in the century, Jean-Baptiste Lully composed his opera Acis et Galatée (1686) on the theme...
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Acis et Galatée (Acis and Galatea) is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Unlike most of his operas, which are designated tragédies en musique, Lully called...
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story of Acis and Galatea’s infatuation as well as the jealousy of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The Polifemo was completed in manuscript form in 1613 and was subsequently...
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secretary and adviser to the duchess, and it prefigures that of Handel's 1718 English-language masque Acis and Galatea, although Handel drew little on the...
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Cannons, was Acis and Galatea: during Handel's lifetime, it was his most performed work. Winton Dean wrote that "the music catches breath and disturbs the...
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Patricia Janečková (section Cancer diagnosis and death)
Dřízgová-Jirušová [cs]. In 2017, she performed the role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea with Collegium Marianum as part of the Janáček Music Festival...
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Gallathea may refer to: Galatea, three different mythological figures from Greek mythology Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, cantata by Handel Galatea (Raphael), or The...
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Jardin du Luxembourg (category Parks and open spaces in Paris)
of water was built and flanked by plane trees, and the sculptures of the giant Polyphemus surprising the lovers Acis and Galatea, by French classical...
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Poliziano. In Greek mythology, the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis. Her consort, one-eyed giant Polyphemus, after...
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Danielle de Niese (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Figaro and Despina in Così fan tutte. In 2009, de Niese made her Covent Garden debut in The Royal Opera's production of Handel's Acis and Galatea, directed...
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was also used in the 1739 revivals of his Il Trionfo del Tempo and Acis and Galatea, and the next year in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Half...
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shepherd Acis, and was loved by the cyclops Polyphemus. Galatea, the statue of a woman created by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite. Galatea, daughter...
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part of a double bill with Handel's Acis and Galatea. In 2011 the opera was revived by City Wall Productions and set during World War II. A new Opera...
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two years included roles in Handel's Acis and Galatea, and her brother's Rosamund, The Opera of Operas and Dido and Aeneas. The year 1733 proved to be a...
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Purcell Operatic Society (section Notes and references)
production's finances were precarious. The 1901 Dido and Aeneas revival had not made any profit, and Acis and Galatea had no working capital apart from two or three...
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Grace Davidson (section Early years and education)
April 2021. "The Sixteen Deliver Life-Enhancing Performance of Acis & Galatea – Seen and Heard International". seenandheard-international.com. Retrieved...
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a Northern Irish ballet dancer and a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London. Hamilton was born in Belfast and spent most of her childhood in Dromore...
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competitiveness Acis (Italian: Aci) of Acis and Galatea in Greek mythology This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ACI. If an internal...
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Peter Anthony Motteux (category English dramatists and playwrights)
modern musicals; works like The Rape of Europa by Jupiter (1694), Acis and Galatea (1701), and Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (1705), Thomyris, Queen of Scythia (17078...
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Messiah Part III (section Structure and concept)
previous operas, with similarities between motifs that appear in Acis and Galatea ("Must I my Acis still bemoan?"), the aria that opens Act II of Riccardo primo...
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"Coridon and Parthenia" A character in the Venetian tragicomedy Il pastor fido A character in the 1718 version of Handel's Acis and Galatea A character...
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the Jaci river at Acireale in Italy, and refers to the myth of Acis and Galatea. Aci is a member of the Phocaea family (701), a relatively small group of...
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George II in 1727. Alongside The King Shall Rejoice, My Heart is Inditing, and Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened, Zadok the Priest is one of Handel's coronation...
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his Acis and Galatea. Handel responded with a new production in while interpolating Italian arias from his dramatic cantata of 1708, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo...
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