Serse (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛrse]; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed...
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Mezzo-soprano (category Italian opera terminology)
Ruggiero, Alcina (Handel)* Rosina, The Barber of Seville (Rossini)* Serse, Serse (Handel)* Tancredi, Tancredi (Rossini)* The lyric mezzo-soprano has a...
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Temistocle (J.C. Bach) (redirect from Themistocles (opera))
Athens. He arrives incognito at Susa, the capital of his arch-enemy King Serse, to find that his daughter Aspasia (in love with the Athenian ambassador...
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Ombra mai fu (category Opera excerpts)
"Largo from Xerxes" or "Handel's Largo", is the opening aria from the opera Serse (1738) by George Frideric Handel. "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai...
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regarded as Rameau's finest achievement. 1738 Serse (Handel). Deviation from the usual model of opera seria, Serse contains many comic elements rare in Handel's...
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(1727), Tolomeo (1728), Orlando (1732), Ariodante (1735), Alcina (1735), Serse (1738) and Imeneo (1740). His regular librettist was Nicola Francesco Haym...
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George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language...
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Malena Ernman (category 20th-century Swedish women opera singers)
the usually cut aria 'No, la morte'. Vienna saw her in the title role of Serse by Handel in October 2011 at the Theater an der Wien, and the following...
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Sarah Connolly (category 20th-century British women opera singers)
breakthrough role was as Xerxes in the 1998 English National Opera production of Handel's Serse (Xerxes), directed by Nicholas Hytner. In 2005, she sang the...
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Xerxes arranged from "Ombra mai fu", the opening aria from Handel's opera Serse Hugo Largo, an American band from the 1980s Largo (Brad Mehldau album)...
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