Handel - Rodrigo
Score of Händel's Rodrigo
Chrysander | Edition 1873 | 113 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 21 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1873 | 113 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 21 MB
Rodrigo is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel. Its original title was Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria ("To overcome oneself is the greater victory"). The opera is based on the historical figure of Rodrigo, the last Visigothic king of Hispania. The libretto was based on the work of Francesco Silvani, II duello d'amore e di vendetta ("The conflict between love and revenge").[1] Dating from 1707, it was his first opera written for performance in Italy, and the first performance is taken to have occurred in Florence late in 1707.[2] The opera was revived properly only in 1984, in Innsbruck, after a lost fragment from Act III was found. Later productions have been given in London (1985) and Karlsruhe (1987).[1]