Handel - Floridante
Score of Händel's Floridante
Chrysander | Edition 1876 | 152 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 27 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1876 | 152 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 27 MB
Floridante (HWV 14) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli after Francesco Silvani's La costanza in trionfo.
The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 9 December 1721 and again with revisions on 4 December 1722. It was revived in 1727 and 1733 and also performed in Hamburg. The next staging, and the first modern performance, took place at the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon on 10 May 1962.
The manuscript of the final chorus from the opera was discovered in the 1930s, and filled out the autograph manuscript in the Royal collection at the British Museum.