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Arminio (HWV 36) (Vocal Score)
Handel, George Frideric
Handel Arminio (HWV 36) (Vocal Score)
- Also available hardback full score BA 4100
- Performance material available for hire
- Urtext edition based on the Halle Handel Edition
- Libretto in Italian with singable German translation
- Comprehensive foreword (Ger/Eng) with important information on the history of the libretto as well as on the genesis and the performance history of the work. A detailed resume of the plot is also contained.
- Extensive appendix with richly ornamented versions of two arias
- Straight-forward piano reduction
Antonio Salvi’s Arminio is one of the best-loved operatic librettos of the Baroque period. Against the historical background of the so-called “Battle of the Teutoburg Forest” in 9 AD in which the Cherusci leader Arminius as “Liberator of Germany” (Tacitus) inflicted a devastating defeat on the Romans, Handel’s opera, first performed in 1737, is about the disputes between the Chatti and the Cherusci. Arminius has married the daughter of his arch-enemy Segestes. When he is imprisoned, Segestes, who has conspired with the Romans, sees his opportunity for revenge.