Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem explores how caring for t …
This duet explores the titillating nature of love and desire, depicted with effervescent excitement at its beginning, contrasted with the weight of the possibility of its loss.
The Music for the Royal Fireworks is a masterpiece of ceremonial music, composed in 1749 to mark the end of the War of the Austrian Succession. Designed to accompany a grand fireworks display in Green Park, it was originally scored for a large wind and brass ensemble, reflecting the grandeur of the occasion.
Desperate and forsaken by God, Saul seeks guidance from the …
Act 2 delves deeper into Saul’s jealousy and the growing ten …
The act opens with a triumphant celebration of David’s victo …
An early work of Handel, this secular cantata was composed in 1707, and premiered that same year at the Palazzo Bonelli, in Rome. Wanting to write opera after his early success in Hamburg, Handel traveled to Italy; however upon arrival in Rome, Handel discovered that opera had been banned by Papal edict. In lieu of opera, Roman aristocracy hosted performances of secular cantatas, which were, for all intents and purposes, short operas without staging. Handel delved into this form, writing over 100 of these chamber cantatas for various patrons.
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