Admeto, re di Tessaglia ("Admetus, King of Thessaly", HWV 22) is a three-act opera written for the Royal Academy of Music with music composed by George...
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the continued life of her husband, King Admetos of Pherai. Heracles was an honored guest in the House of Admetos at the time and offered to repay the king's...
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Aiolos. Pelias and Neleus. The earlier history of Bias and Melampous. Admetos and Alcestis. 3. Jason and the Argonauts Pelias orders Jason to fetch the...
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Admetus or Admetos (Greek: Ἄδμητος) may refer to: Admetus, mythological king of Pherae in Thessaly Admetus, son of Augeas Admetus (epigrammatist), 2nd-century...
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Meanings of minor planet names: 85001–86000 (redirect from Admetos)
Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute JPL · 85015 85030 Admetos 2804 P-L Admetus (Admetos), from Greek mythology. The King of Pherae was saved by Apollo...
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Structure of Handel's Messiah (section General notes)
from Adam's fall" (movements 45–46) Scene 2: "The Day of Judgment and general Resurrection" (movements 47–48) Scene 3: "The victory over death and sin"...
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Shipping Company Ltd., re-registered under the Cyprus flag, and renamed Admetos. In 1997, she was again sold to Willows Maritime Ltd., re-registered in...
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the preparations, Handel and John Montagu, Duke of Montagu, the Master-General of the Ordnance and the officer responsible for the Royal Fireworks, had...
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(PDF) from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2017. In general, only the signs for Vesta have enough variance to be regarded as different...
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(1715), Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724), Tamerlano (1724), Rodelinda (1725), Admeto (1727), Tolomeo (1728), Orlando (1732), Ariodante (1735), Alcina (1735)...
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Handel's lost Hamburg operas (section General)
the Gänsemarkt. Despite his on-stage successes, Keiser was an unreliable general manager, with expensive private tastes and little financial acumen, often...
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Messiah Part III (section General notes)
Floridante Ottone Flavio Giulio Cesare Tamerlano Rodelinda Scipione Alessandro Admeto Riccardo Primo Siroe Tolomeo Lotario (Handel) Partenope Poro Ezio Sosarme...
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produced an eleven-movement suite: 1. Introduction (Overture to Act II of Admeto) 2. Allegro (or First Dance or Fugato) (from Overture to Teseo) 3. Minuet...
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and Judas Maccabaeus became one of Handel's most popular oratorios. The General Advertiser (issued on the day prior to the concert) announced the event...
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he is assured that his wife and son will be returned to him. There is general rejoicing. The opera's libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym, and was based...
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Attalo ed Arsinoe Giovanni Bononcini – Astianatte George Frideric Handel Admeto, Premiered Jan. 31 in London Riccardo Primo Leonardo Leo – Il Cid Benedetto...
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During the next two seasons she created four more Handel roles: Alceste in Admeto and Pulcheria in Riccardo Primo (both 1727), and Emira in Siroe and Elisa...
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of redemption, followed by a prediction of the day of judgment and the "general resurrection", ending with the final victory over sin and death and the...
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List of opera librettists (section General sources)
Giovanni Bononcini: Calfurnia and Astianatte for George Frideric Handel: Admeto, Amadigi di Gaula, Flavio, Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Radamisto, Rodelinda,...
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absorbed every inferior attainment. When he gave a concerto, his method in general was to introduce it with a voluntary movement on the diapasons, which stole...
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1974). 'Eighteenth-Century Studies, 7(4), pp. 474–488. Charles Burney: A General History of Music: from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period. Vol. 4...
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would later become the Air; this explanation fits in nicely with Handel's general technique of borrowing tunes. The story never appeared in Handel's lifetime...
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1733: We are credibly inform’d that one Day last Week Mr. H–d–l, Director-General of the Opera-House, sent a Message to Signior Senesino, the famous Italian...
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expressive, the orchestration so inventive, the characterization so apt, the general level of invention so high, the action so full of credible situation and...
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for concerts and is also available for rehearsals by musicians from the general public. On the first floor at the back of the house, this is believed to...
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conscious effort by Handel to produce a set of orchestral "masterpieces" for general publication: a response and homage to the ever-popular concerti grossi...
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Floridante Ottone Flavio Giulio Cesare Tamerlano Rodelinda Scipione Alessandro Admeto Riccardo Primo Siroe Tolomeo Lotario (Handel) Partenope Poro Ezio Sosarme...
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Greek Heracles. He seems to have enjoyed a special status in Italy in general. In art, he is shown to be a defender of an unknown goddess against creatures...
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worship Thee") is also an alto solo with five-part chorus of the same general character. It is followed by a semi-chorus in three parts ("To Thee all...
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he jilted her and she is furiously determined to be revenged. Ariodate, general to Serse and father of Romilda and Atalanta, enters with news of a great...
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