Handel - Muzio Scevola
Score of Händel's Muzio Scevola
Chrysander | Edition 1874 | 86 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 15 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1874 | 86 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 15 MB
Muzio Scevola (Mucius Scaevola) is an opera in three acts. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first act was composed by Filippo Amadei (family name sometimes given as Mattei[1]), the second act by Giovanni Bononcini, and the third by George Frideric Handel. Collaborations of groups of composers were common in the 18th century, though this is the only one done in London. Bononcini had written the music for two earlier treatments of this story on his own, works dating from 1695 and 1710. The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 15 April 1721 and repeated on 7 November 1722. It was also performed in Hamburg. The first modern performance was in Essen in 1928.