Giove in Argo (or Jupiter in Argos) (HWV A14) is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was written by Antonio Maria Lucchini. The Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (abbreviation HWV) is the Catalogue of Handels Works. ... The New Opera in Oslo, Norway The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... George Frideric Handel, 1733 George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ...

It was first performed in King's Theatre, Haymarket, London on May 1, 1739. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... // About the number 1739 1739 is the smallest integer that can be written as sum of three perfect cubes, in two ways. ...

History

The libretto by the Venetian poet Lucchini had been written for a setting by Antonio Lotti in Dresden 1717. Handel might have heard Lotti's opera on his visit to Dresden in 1719, where the famous Senesino sung the part of Jupiter. Probably Handel took a copy of the text to England and remembered it in 1739 when he was looking for a libretto for a short pasticcio opera with three female characters in it. Antonio Lotti (1667 – January 5, 1740) was an Italian composer of classical music. ... For other uses, see Dresden (disambiguation). ... Senesino (Francesco Bernardi) (1690?-1750?) was a celebrated Italian castrato who worked in London for some time. ... Jupiter et Thétis - by Jean Ingres, 1811. ... Pasticcio (Italian for hodgepodge) is a term used to describe a musical work assembled from portions of other musical works, usually by other composers. ...

Handel has brought to London stage several pasticci. In most cases he adapted successful works of Italian composers for London, but he has written three pasticci, in which he re-uses music from his own earlier works. They are the well known Oreste, the hardly known Alessandro Severo and the completely unknown Giove in Argo. In the latter opera he uses apart from music from his earlier works some original compositions as well as two arias (sung by Iside) of the Italian composer Francesco Araia. Oreste (Orestes) (HG 48/102, HWV A11) is an opera by George Frideric Handel in three acts. ... Alexander Severus. ... Francesco Araja Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia, Russian: Арайя) (Born: June 25, 1709, Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, died between 1762 and 1770, Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including Tsefal i...

The opera failed in London and was abandoned after only two performances.

Characters

• Aretes, a shepherd, later discovered as Jupiter
• Isis, daughter of Inachus, betrothed to the King of Egypt, Osiris
• Erastus, a shepherd, later discovered as Osiris, King of Egypt
• Diana
• Calisto, daughter of Lycaon
• Lycaon, disguised as a shepherd, tyrant of Arcadia
• Chorus of huntsmen
• Chorus of shepherds
• Chorus of nymphs

Modern performances

The opera has been performed for the first time in modern period on 15th September 2006 in Bayreuth (Germany) in the 18th century Margrave's Opera House in a complete and staged production by Concert Royal, Cologne and Collegium Cantorum Cologne, directed by Igor Folwill and conducted Thomas Gebhardt. There is no published edition of the music available yet. An edition is announced to be due soon by the Complete Works Edition, edited by John Roberts (HHA). Bayreuth [pronounced by-royt] is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb and the Fichtelgebirge. ...

The work is due to be recorded in late 2007 by Il Complesso Barocco under the direction of Alan Curtis. Alan Curtis may refer to: Alan Curtis (American actor) Alan Curtis (British actor) Alan Curtis (Welsh footballer) Alan Curtis (British singer) Category: ...

External links

• [1] Bayreuther Barock - First modern performance of Giove in Argo in Bayreuth (Germany)