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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Rinaldo, Agrippina, La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Artaxerxes, Gli Orazi e i Curiazi, Giulio Cesare, Serse, Tancredi, Dido, Queen of Carthage, Alcina, Semiramide, Rodelinda, Mitridate, re di Ponto, L'Olimpiade, Il gran Tamerlano, Il re pastore, Demofoonte, Artaserse, Demofonte, Romolo ed Ersilia, Il prigionier superbo, Armida, La Nitteti, Orlando, Adriano in Siria, Ezio, Farnace, Il trionfo di Clelia, La Calliroe, Gabriella di Vergy, Antigona, Imeneo, Demetrio, Antigono, Motezuma, Griselda, Apollo et Hyacinthus, Il Medonte, L'Ipermestra, Atide, Poro, Teseo, La Circe, Arianna in Creta, Tigrane, Floridante, Castore e Polluce, Siroe, La morte di Cesare, Alonso e Cora, Armida abbandonata, Sancia di Castiglia, Mitridate Eupatore, Seleuco, re di Siria, Lotario, Arbace, La Cleopatra, Giulietta e Romeo, Zemira, Giulio Sabino, Scanderbeg, Cleofide, Calto, Montezuma, L'incoronazione di Dario, Alessandro nelle Indie, L'esule di Granata, Creso, Medonte, re di Epiro, La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii, Arsilda, regina di Ponto, Nerone fatto Cesare, Tieteberga, Cajo Mario. Excerpt: Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1711, and was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage. The libretto was prepared by Giacomo Rossi from a scenario provided by Aaron Hill, and the work was first performed at the Queen's Theatre in London's Haymarket on 24 February 1711. The story of love, battle and redemption set at the time of the First Crusade is loosely based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata ("Jerusalem Delivered"), and its staging involved many original and vivid effects. It was a great success with the public, despite negative reactions from literary critics hostile to the contemporary trend towards Italian entertainment in English theatres. Handel we...
