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Ariodante (1735)
By George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel)
Score
Handel, Ariodante - Chrysander (HG) score (pdf)
Recordings
| Handel. Ariodante. (HWV 33, London 1735). Virgin Classics (3 CDs, May 2011). Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco. Ariodante: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Ginevra: Karina Gauvin, soprano; Polinesso: Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soparno; Dalinda: Sabina Puertolas, soprano; Lurcanio: Topi Lehtipuu, tenor; Il Rè: Matthew Brook, bass; Odoardo: Anicio Zorzi, tenor. US | UK | FR | DE | CA | JP |
 Handel.
Ariodante (HWV 33, London 1735). Harmonia Mundi HMU
907146/48 (3 CDs 1996). Nicholas McGegan, Freiburger
Barockorchester. Ariodante: Lorraine Hunt, soprano; Ginevra:
Juliana Gondek, soprano; Dalinda: Lisa Saffer, soprano;
Polinesso: Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; Il Rè: Nicolas
Cavallier, bass; Lurcanio: Rufus Müller, tenor; Odoardo: Jörn
Lindemann, tenor. Includes an extended ritornello to the bass
aria Voli colla sua tromba not found in the Chrysander
edition or in any other recording. (This is the aria that gave
rise to the anecdote about Handel losing his trumpeter to the
Opera of the Nobility, since the text mentions a trumpet but the
obbligato instruments are a pair of horns.) McGegan's favorite
of his many recordings. (Interview
by Melanie Eskenazi.)
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 Handel.
Ariodante. (HWV 33, London 1735). DG-Archiv 457 271-2 (3
CDs 1997). Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. Ariodante:
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Ginevra: Lynne Dawson,
soprano; Polinesso: Ewa Podles, contralto; Dalinda: Verónica
Cangemi, soprano; Lurcanio: Richard Croft, tenor; Il Rè: Denis
Sedov, bass; Odoardo: Luc Coadou, tenor. Overall, I prefer
McGegan's recording.
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Related Operas
Perti. Ginevra, principessa di Scozia (Villa di Pratolino 1708). Libretto by Antonio Salvi, later adapted for Handel. Strohm believes that Handel was present at the performance. (pp. 69-70).
Vivaldi. Ginevra, principessa di Scozia. (RV 716, Venice 1736). Music apparently lost. Another setting of Salvi's libretto.
References
Winton Dean. Handel's Operas, 1726-1741 (Boydell Press 2006).
Reinhard Strohm, "Handel and his Italian opera texts." Essays on Handel and the Italian Opera. (Oxford University Press 1985).
 Reinhard
Strohm. Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the
Eighteenth Century.
Details. Yale University Press, 1997. 326 pages. Contents
include: Handel's Ariodante: Scotland and Arcadia.
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Links
Ariodante: The Background to the Original Production by Donald Burrows.