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# **Handel - Arminio - Laurence Cummings ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-arminio-145843802?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-arminio-145843802?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *Arminio* was composed in **1736–1737**, during one of the most difficult and unstable phases of **Handel’s London career**. Italian opera was rapidly losing its dominant…

# **Handel - Rodrigo - Opera - 1707 - Laurence Cummings ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodrigo-145843409?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodrigo-145843409?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodrigo-145843409?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *Rodrigo* holds a unique place in Handel’s output as **his first fully Italian opera** and the work that effectively launched his…

# **Handel - Faramondo - Opera - 1738 - Laurence Cummings ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-faramondo-145842133?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-faramondo-145842133?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-faramondo-145842133?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *Faramondo* is an Italian opera seria in three acts composed by **George Frideric Handel** in **1737–1738**, during one of the most…

# **Franco Corelli, Leontyne Price, Rudolf Bing ** Metropolitan Opera audiences began an extraordinary love affair with American soprano Leontyne Price immediately upon her debut on January 27, 1961 Price was a known entity…

# **The Relationship Between Handel and Göttingen: ** **How a German University Town Became the Heart of the Modern Handel Revival** ## **1. A Paradox at the Beginning: Handel Never Set Foot in Göttingen**…

# **ANECDOTES ABOUT KATHLEEN BATTLE** *The angelic voice, the perfectionist temperament, the legend of impossible beauty* ## **1. The Telephone Audition that Started Everything** Kathleen Battle’s first professional break came when conductor Thomas Schippers…

# **Handel - Imeneo - 1740 - Comic Opera - Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-imeneo-145171842?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-imeneo-145171842?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *A late Handel opera of wit, emotional nuance, and surprising psychological depth* When Handel composed **Imeneo** in 1740,…

# **MARIA CALLAS AND HER HEROINES** Maria Callas lived her art so completely that the boundary between the woman and the characters she portrayed dissolved into something fluid, unstable, and profoundly revealing. To watch…

# **THE DEATH OF MARIA CALLAS — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** ## **I. The Final Context: Paris, 1975–1977** Between 1975 and 1977, Maria Callas lived almost completely withdrawn in her apartment on Avenue Georges-Mandel in…

# **Handel - Amadigi di Gaula - Opera - 1715 - Christian Curnyn ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-amadigi-144841248?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-amadigi-144841248?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Birth of *****Amadigi*****: Handel in His London Prime (1713–1715)** When Handel composed *Amadigi di Gaula* in…

# **EUGEN D’ALBERT — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood, and the Making of a Prodigy** Eugen Francis Charles d’Albert was born on **April 10, 1864**, in Glasgow, Scotland, into a family whose musical…

# **THE DEATH OF GAETANO DONIZETTI — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** ## **I. The Long Descent: Illness, Decline, and Early Signs of Collapse** The final years of **Gaetano Donizetti** form one of the most tragic…

# **Handel - Lotario - Attilio Cremonesi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-lotario-144573739?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-lotario-144573739?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. A Turbulent Operatic Climate in London (1729) and the End of an Era** When Handel composed *Lotario*, he was navigating one of the…

# **Handel - Rodelinda - Opera - 1725 - Laurence Cummings ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodelinda-144572124?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodelinda-144572124?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Operatic Climate in London and Handel’s Position (1724–1725)** When Handel undertook the composition of *Rodelinda*, he stood at…

# **Pergolesi - La serva padrona, Cimarosa - Il maestro di cappella - Carlo Maria Giulini, Renato Fasano ** Pergolesi: La serva padrona Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rosanna Carteri Teatro alla Scala, **Carlo Maria Giulini** Cimarosa:…

# **LECLAIR - Scylla & Glaucus - Sebastien d'Hérin; Alpha Classics ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/leclair-scylla-144352022?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/leclair-scylla-144352022?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)** ** **LECLAIR – *****SCYLLA & GLAUCUS*** **I. The Genesis of Leclair’s Only Surviving Opera** Jean-Marie Leclair, celebrated in his lifetime as…

# **THE DEATH OF HENRY PURCELL — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** *Illness, mystery, historical context, and the legacy left behind* Henry Purcell (1659–1695), often called *the Orpheus Britannicus*, died with tragic suddenness at the age…

# **THE DEATH OF GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** ## **I. London, 1758–1759 — A Body in Decline, a Spirit Still Burning** Handel entered the final year of his life as a…

# **Handel, Sosarme, re di Media - 1732 - Johannes Somary ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-sosarme-144033868?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-sosarme-144033868?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Place of *****Sosarme***** in Handel’s Operatic Career** *Sosarme* occupies a fascinating moment in Handel’s London operatic life. Composed…