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Composer | Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759) |
Period | Baroque |
Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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Intensely sumptuous: Handel's Imeneo at Gottingen
Historically informed baroque gestures and ballet additions: Handel's only operetta gets a rare airing and a musical makeover in Sigried T'Hooft's new production for Gottingen's International Handel Festival.
London Handel Festival opens with a tongue-in-cheek Imeneo at the RCM
Imeneo (1740), Handel’s penultimate opera, is atypical on several fronts. It’s relatively short by Handel’s standards (three acts, under two hours of music); the plot is thin, but not as absurd or complicated as those of some of his other operas (there are no disguises, for example); the title role is composed for a bass; and the opera has a chorus which participates in the plot, rather than just