Soprano voice solo, mezzo-soprano voice solo, 2 alto voice solos, tenor voice so...(+)
Soprano voice solo,
mezzo-soprano voice solo,
2 alto voice solos, tenor
voice solo, bass voice
solo, orchestra (soprano
voice solo, mezzo-soprano
voice solo, 2 alto voice
solos, tenor voice solo,
bass voice solo,
Orchestra)
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Dramma
per musica in thre
acts. Composed by
George Frideric Handel.
Edited by Andrew V.
Jones. This edition:
complete edition, urtext
edition. Linen. Halle
Handel Edition (HHA)
Serie II, Band 16.
Baroque Opera. Complete
edition, Score. HWV 19.
Duration 3 hours, 15
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04064_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA04064).
ISBN 9790006495696.
33.1 x 25.9 cm inches.
Nicola Francesco
Haym.
After Giulio
Cesare and Tamerlano ,
Rodelinda is the third
masterly opera that
Handel composed between
December 1723 and January
1725. The words were
written by Nicola Haym ,
the author of many other
Handel librettos. The
first performance took
place at the
King’s Theatre in
the Haymarket, London ,
on 13 February 1725.
Rodelinda thrives
entirely on the ethical
supremacy of conjugal
love, and thus prefigures
the great operas by Gluck
and Beethoven on the same
subject. The plot is
taken from the history of
the Lombard royalty.
Oskar Hagen’s
revival of Rodelinda in
1920 ushered in the
modern Handel opera
movement.
The
work forms the climax to
a series of dramatic
masterpieces that
includes Handel’s
most significant
operas.
Handel
returned to Rodelinda on
two occasions, in
December 1725 and in May
1731. Many far-reaching
changes were necessary
owing to the different
skills of the new
singers.
For example,
Handel wrote three new
arias and a duet for the
first revival. Yet the
changes he made for this
performance, doubtless to
accommodate the needs and
wishes of the singers,
also improve the
work’s dramatic
substance.
Our
vocal score is based on
the Urtext of the full
score published in the
Halle Handel Edition
(II/16) and reproduces
the various alternative
readings and versions in
an appendix.
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discrepancies and
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