Handel's 'Agrippina? HWV 6 was performed with great success at the 2015 International Handel Festival in Göttingen (Germany) using the new Bärenreiter edition including the performance material and this vocal score.'Agrippina? is the last opera that Handel completed and premiered in Italy. The excellent libretto is one of the few original opera libretti that he set to music. The plot is tightly co…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. 'Rodrigo” was premiered in autumn 1707 in Florence and is therefore one of Handel's early stage works. The composer, only 22 years old, wrote a densely-woven musical scenario for his first opera composed in Italy . It masterfully portrays the dramatic states of mind of the protagonists surrounding the Iberian tyrant Rodrigo and the plot full of deception, betrayal , a…

Par GALLOIS JEAN. Force de la nature, Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) révéla rapidement un don inné pour la musique dans sa ville natale de Halle. Son talent émergea à  Hambourg, montrant déjà  un goût certain pour l'oratorio et l'opéra. Aprês quelques succês en Italie (notamment Aggripina à  Venise), il entra au service de la maison de Hambourg, ce qui le fit voyager en Angleterre Dès 1710. C…