Many Classical music lovers are familiar with George Frideric
Handel's famous oratorio, "Messiah," but are not aware his
preferred area of composition was Italian opera seria. Biographical
books explore his career as an opera composer and the rise of the
new pious genre when Italian opera was no longer popular in London,
but rarely do we find detailed accounts or discussions on that
tempestuous period in the 1730s when this shift in populaity forced
Handel to leave the Haymarket theatre and join with John Rich at
Covent Garden where he tried to carry on the Royal Academy opera
company in competition with the new Opera of the Nobility venture
founded by the Prince of Wales before he was finally forced to
abandon opera in favour of oratorio. This book explores this rocky
transition period and how it affected Handel's work, namely, his
inclusion of French elements to his operas and other novel
innovations in order to regain his chagrined public. There are
discussions exploring the possibility Handel was his own worse
enemy with regards to his business decisions as
impresario-composer, alienating the Italians of London and his
public, which nearly cost him his career. A fascinating study for
Handel admirers.
..". There were so many details raised and questions asked
which make the reader really excited and interested in the period
and what was happening. ... There are many, many details which just
suddenly bring home to you, 'My goodness, (opera production) was
different in those days ' ... There are many things that jumped out
of this book at me ..." - David Adams, 'Into the Evening', Lyric FM
Classical Music Radio Ireland
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