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Operas by George Frideric Handel
(Georg Friedrich Händel)
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Admeto (1727)
Agrippina (Venice,
1709)
Alcina (1735)
Alessandro (1726)
Almira (Hamburg, 1704)
Amadigi di Gaula (1715)
Arianna in Creta
(1734)
Ariodante (1735)
Arminio (1737)
Atalanta (1736)
Berenice (1737)
Deidamia (1741)
Ezio (1732)
Faramondo (1738)
Flavio (1723)
Floridante (1721)
Giulio Cesare in
Egitto (1724)
Giustino (1737)
Imeneo (1740)
Lotario (1729)
Muzio Scevola
(1721)
Orlando (1733)
Ottone (1723)
Partenope (1730)
Il Pastor Fido
(1712)
Poro (1731)
Radamisto (1720)
Riccardo Primo
(1727)
Rinaldo (1711)
Rodelinda (1725)
Rodrigo (Florence, 1707)
Scipione (1726)
Serse (Xerxes) (1738)
Silla (1713)
Siroe (1728)
Sosarme (Fernando)
(1732)
Tamerlano (1724)
Teseo (1713)
Tolomeo (1728)
Handel's Pasticcio Operas & Oratorios
Handel's Oratorios as arranged by Mozart
Handel's Cantatas, Arias & Other Vocal Recordings
Lost Hamburg Operas
Nero (HWV 2, Hamburg 1705). Music apparently lost.
Der beglügkte Florindo (HWV 3, Hamburg 1706). Most music apparently lost.
Die verwandelte Daphne (HWV 4, Hamburg 1706). Most music apparently lost.
References
 Winton
Dean. Handel's Operas, 1726-1741.
Details. 608 pages. The Boydell Press, November 2006. The
long-awaited companion to Dean & Knapp (1987). Covers Handel's
operas from Alessandro to Deidamia.
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 Winton
Dean & John Merrill Knapp. Handel's Operas, 1704-1726.
Oxford University Press 1987. 771 pages. Essential reference.
There were a few minor additions to the paperback reprint, but
the hardcover is easier to use. Covers Handel's operas from
Almira to Scipione.
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JPPaperback reprint with additions, 1995. US | UK | DE | FR | CA | JP |
| Richard King (ed.) Handel Studies - A Gedenkshrift for Howard Serwer. Details. Pendragon Press 2008. Includes an article by Winton Dean about Handel's Giove in Argo. US | UK | FR | DE | CA | JP |
| Reinhard Strohm. Essays on Handel and
Italian Opera. Collection of Strohm's essays, some published
in English for the first time. A book to which I return
repeatedly. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Contents include:
Handel's Italian journey as a European experience; Handel and
his Italian opera texts; Francesco Gasparini's later operas and
Handel; Towards an understanding of the opera seria; Handel's
pasticci; Handel's Ezio; Metastasio's Alessandro
nell'Indie and its earliest settings; Comic traditions in
Handel's Orlando.
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CA Paperback reprint 2008. US | UK | FR | DE | CA | JP |
 Reinhard
Strohm. Dramma per Musica: Italian Opera Seria of the
Eighteenth Century.
Details. Yale University Press, 1997. 326 pages. The
author's second collection of his articles about 18th Century
serious opera. Contents include: Tolomeo: Handel's opera
and the rules of tragedy; Arianna in Creta: musical
dramaturgy; Handel's Ariodante: Scotland and Arcadia.
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| Morris S. Levy & John Milton Ward (eds.) The King's Theatre Collection. Ballet and Italian Opera in London 1706-1883. From the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection. 553 pages. Harvard University Press. Revised and expanded edition 2006. US | UK | DE | FR | CA | JP |
| Ellen Harris (ed.) The Librettos of Handel's Operas. 13 volumes, hardcover. Garland Publishing Co. Facsimiles, with brief introductory notes by the editor. Very rare and out-of-print. Extremely difficult to find complete, but essential for the study of Handel's operas. Excludes Handel's pasticcios and librettos from third-party performances in Hamburg and elsewhere. |
| Lorenzo Bianconi & Giuseppina La Face Bianconi
(eds.) Libretti italiani di Georg Friedrich Händel e loro
fonti. 3 Volumes. Olschki, Florence. Includes Handel's
pasticci. Not facsimiles. Volume I (1992): I testi Händeliani. Da "Vincer se stesso à la maggior vittoria" a L'Epidia, overo Li rivali generosi" (1725). ISBN: 8822239261. Contents. Volume II (forthcoming): Le fonti (1726-1733). Details. Volume III (forthcoming): Le fonti (1734-1741). Details. |
| David Kimbell. The Operas of Handel: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. Details. ISBN: 0521521602. Forthcoming 2011? I have no idea what to expect. David Kimbell is the author of "The 'Amadis' operas of Handel and Destouches." Music & Letters 49: 329-346 (1968). |