Lotario

"Lotario" ("Lothair") (HWV 26) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Antonio Salvi's Adelaide.

Performance history

The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 2 December 1729. Paolo Rolli commented in a letter at the time to Giuseppe Riva that "everyone thinks it a very bad opera". [cite journal | url=http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/18/2/280 | last=Streatfeild | first=R.A. | title=Handel, Rolli, and Italian Opera in London in the Eighteenth Century | journal=The Musical Quarterly | volume=III | issue=3 | pages=428–445 | date=1917 | accessdate=2007-11-18 | doi=10.1093/mq/III.3.428] There were 10 performances, but it was not repeated. Handel later reused pieces in later operas. The first modern production was by Unicorn Theatre at the Kenton Theatre, Henley on Thames, 3 September 1975.

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References

*citation|first=Winton|last=Dean|title=Handel's Operas, 1726-1741|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2006
id=ISBN 1843832682 The second of the two volume definitive reference on the operas of Handel