An Early Music group with a steadily rising reputation tackles Handel’s Italian cantata, first performed in Naples in 1708: it has a similar plot to his better-known English serenata Acis and Galatea of 1718, but an almost entirely different score. However, it lacks an overture, so that to Handel’s first London opera Rinaldo (1711) is co-opted for this occasion.

EPSG:4326

La Nuova Musica; David Bates director; Lucy Crowe soprano (as Aci); Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano (as Galatea); Luigi De Donato bass (as Polifemo)

Wigmore Hall

You may remember Antonio Salieri as the man accused of killing Mozart in the film Amadeus. But that is in fact unthinkable, as historical research has proved. In reality, Mozart and Salieri held each other in mutual respect.

Luigi De Donato

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Apr 22, 2027

Falstaff · La Monnaie / De Munt

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Oct 29, 2024

La Nuova Musica; David Bates director; Lucy Crowe soprano (as Aci); Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano (as Galatea); Luigi De Donato bass (as Polifemo) · Wigmore Hall

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Bardolfo in Falstaff by Salieri

La Monnaie / De Munt

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