Handel - Flavio
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Label: Chandos - Chaconne
Cat No: CHAN07732
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 27th September 2010
Contents
Artists
Tim MeadeRosemary Joshua
Iestyn Davies
Renata Pokupic
Hilary Summers
Thomas Walker
Andrew Foster-Williams
Early Opera Company
Conductor
Christian CurnynWorks
Flavio, re di Longobardi, HWV16Artists
Tim MeadeRosemary Joshua
Iestyn Davies
Renata Pokupic
Hilary Summers
Thomas Walker
Andrew Foster-Williams
Early Opera Company
Conductor
Christian CurnynAbout
The music embraces a wide variety of emotions, with duets (one for each pair of lovers) framing the beginning and end of the opera. In Act III, as one lover pleads the case of his rival, the ambiguity of the situation causes a splendid ironical frisson in the plot, reflected in the music.
Handel revived Flavio once, in 1732, its modest success in its day reflecting the tastes of contemporary audiences rather than its musical or dramatic quality. It is far better appreciated today as one of the composer’s most inventive operas, full of the varied imagination, superb arias and excellent melody we expect from Handel’s best operas.
Founded in 1994 by its music director, Christian Curnyn, the Early Opera Company is now firmly established as one of Britain’s leading early music ensembles.
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