Score of Händel's Riccardo primo
Chrysander | Edition 1877 | 140 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 28 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1877 | 140 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 28 MB
Riccardo Primo re d’Inghilterra (or 'Richard the First, King of England') is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani's Isacio tiranno, set by Antonio Lotti in 1710. Handel wrote the work for the Royal Academy's 1726-1727 opera season, and also as homage to the newly crowned George II and the nation where Handel had just received citizenship.