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Rameau’s "Platée" is one of few rare examples of comical French baroqueopera. The opera consists of lot's of grotesque situations andfantastic aniomal evocations and...
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The heroïcal epos "Orlando Furioso" by Ariosto, in which the maincharacter goes down because of his love for the sorceress Angelica,inspired Händel to write...
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Georg Friedrich Händel wrote about forty Italian operas for the London theatres. Among them, "Ariodante" is definitely a masterpiece, even though the reputation of...