Aci, Galatea e Polifemo - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
SERENATA FOR THREE SOLO VOICES
Libretto by Nicola Giuvo
Georg Friedrich Handel was 23 years old when he wrote Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Naples in 1708. Composed as a concertante treat at a noble wedding, the serenata tells the love story between the nymph Galatea and the shepherd Aci, which is brutally destroyed by the murder of Aci by the jealous Cyclops Polifemo. For today's listeners, this work, like the oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, composed a year earlier, seems like a glimpse into the young composer's laboratory: with three singers and in just 90 minutes, Handel unfolds a variety of expressive ones Forms and combinations of instruments like in hardly any of his later works. René Jacobs, a tireless discoverer of baroque masterpieces for many years and a regular guest at the MusikTheater an der Wien, will conduct Handel's Serenata as a drama of affects.
Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
Libretto by Nicola Giuvo
Georg Friedrich Handel was 23 years old when he wrote Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Naples in 1708. Composed as a concertante treat at a noble wedding, the serenata tells the love story between the nymph Galatea and the shepherd Aci, which is brutally destroyed by the murder of Aci by the jealous Cyclops Polifemo. For today's listeners, this work, like the oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, composed a year earlier, seems like a glimpse into the young composer's laboratory: with three singers and in just 90 minutes, Handel unfolds a variety of expressive ones Forms and combinations of instruments like in hardly any of his later works. René Jacobs, a tireless discoverer of baroque masterpieces for many years and a regular guest at the MusikTheater an der Wien, will conduct Handel's Serenata as a drama of affects.
Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
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