Amadigi di Gaula
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Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) is a "magic" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel.[1] It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for an English theatre and the second he wrote for Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington in 1715. The opera about a damsel in distress is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Amadigi was written for a small cast, employing four high voices. Handel made prominent use of wind instruments, so the score is unusually colorful, comparable to his Water Music.
Amadigi di Gaula | |
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Opera by George Frideric Handel | |
Librettist | (debated) |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Amadis de Grèce |
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The opera received its first performance in London at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket on 25 May 1715, in a lavish successful production. Charles Burney maintained near the end of the eighteenth century: Amadigi contained "...more invention, variety and good composition, than in any one of the musical dramas of Handel which I have yet carefully and critically examined".[2][3][4]