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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Acireale (redirect from Aci-Reale)
    between Ā́cis, the spirit of the Ā́cis River, and Galatea the sea-nymph. According to mythology, the tears of Galatea after the death of Ā́cis gave birth...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Polyphemus Surprising Acis and Galatea, where the bronze giant crouches above the rocky grotto in which Galatea lies in the arms of Acis, who leans on his...
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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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    Medici Fountain (category Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris)
    discovering the lovers Acis and Galatea, in white marble. The fountain was completely cleaned during the summer of 2021, and that is the fountain as...
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    wealthy Duke of Chandos, where he wrote church anthems and two stage works, Acis and Galatea and Esther. He composed vocal music to English words for various...
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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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    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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    Adele Addison (category Aspen Music Festival and School faculty)
    47-year marriage lasted until Berger's death in 2005. Acis, Acis and Galatea (Handel) Bess, Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) Esther, Esther (Handel) Fiordiligi...
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    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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  • Accusative and infinitive a.k.a. accusativus cum infinitivo, a construction in Latin grammar Ace Combat Infinity Acis (Italian: Aci) of Acis and Galatea in Greek...
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    John Gay (category English dramatists and playwrights)
    Whigs and Tories. In 1718 he collaborated with Handel on the masque Acis and Galatea for which he supplied the libretto. Gay had numerous patrons, and in...
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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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    performance, causing some resentment and comment in the press. These three English language works, Esther, Acis and Galatea and Deborah, all contained leading...
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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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