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Question: Which (one) of the operas listed below would most interest you, bearing in mind that it's the 250th Anniversary of Handel's death in 2009?
Alcina - 1 (6.7%)
Ariodante - 0 (0%)
Tamerlano - 0 (0%)
Rodelinda - 5 (33.3%)
Serse (Xerxes) - 1 (6.7%)
Giulio Cesare - 4 (26.7%)
Semele - 0 (0%)
Rinaldo - 0 (0%)
Another (please mention which & why) - 1 (6.7%)
Orlando - 3 (20%)
Total Voters: 15

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« Reply #30 on: 22:35:32, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: harpy128 on 21:42:54, 25-04-2008
(albeit partly recycled - that first duet in Atalanta is also an aria in Agrippina isn't it?).

I think Handel took advantage of his London location to plunder AGRIPPINA (written abroad, and entirely unknown by London audiences) mercilessly Smiley   One of Agrippina's own arias turns up as a movement of one of his Recorder Sonatas.
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« Reply #31 on: 22:39:04, 25-04-2008 »
I may be wrong about this but I remember going to the ENO's Agrippina last year and recognising Agrippina's first aria.  My bet was Juno's aria "Beyond pleasure is the measure" in Semele.  Both Juno and Agrippina are bitches.  But I may be wrong.
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« Reply #32 on: 13:21:37, 26-04-2008 »
Quote from: harpy128 on 21:42:54, 25-04-2008
that first duet in Atalanta is also an aria in Agrippina isn't it?

Sorry, was getting my Handels in a twist - it's the opening duet from Flavio, "Ricordati mio ben", that was recycled from "Il peso del tuo amor" in Agrippina (which was itself nicked from an earlier work I gather - waste not want not).
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« Reply #33 on: 16:06:04, 26-04-2008 »
Quote from: harpy128 on 13:21:37, 26-04-2008
(which was itself nicked from an earlier work I gather - waste not want not).

When you consider the pace at which Handel worked - 50 operas! - and the likely period of the run (very many of the operas didn't get out of single figures of performance-numbers) it's no surprise that he became light-fingered with his own work Smiley
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« Reply #34 on: 16:10:47, 26-04-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 16:06:04, 26-04-2008
Quote from: harpy128 on 13:21:37, 26-04-2008
(which was itself nicked from an earlier work I gather - waste not want not).

When you consider the pace at which Handel worked - 50 operas! - and the likely period of the run (very many of the operas didn't get out of single figures of performance-numbers) it's no surprise that he became light-fingered with his own work Smiley
Not only with his own work of course... choice bits of other people's pieces also turn up from time to time. (One of my favourites is a Postillon from the Telemann Tafelmusik in the chorus of the wise men in Belshazzar.) But that's just how they did it back then - not even Bach was above that sort of thing.
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