Where

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Duchess Aurora di Sanseverino commissioned this opera for a wedding celebration in Naples; on a spicy Italian libretto penned by her private secretary Nicola Giuvo. Handel composed Aci in his early twenties, during the highly formative years he spent in Italy. The most famous aria for lyric bass from this opera is Fra L’Ombre e Gl'Orrori.

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Minimum Age

11

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Duchess Aurora di Sanseverino commissioned this opera for a wedding celebration in Naples; on a spicy Italian libretto penned by her private secretary Nicola Giuvo. Handel composed Aci in his early twenties, during the highly formative years he spent in Italy. The most famous aria for lyric bass from this opera is Fra L’Ombre e Gl'Orrori.

 

Performers:  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment dir. Steven Devine, Trevor Eliot Bowes as Polifemo


This concert includes a 20 minute interval.


All Valletta Baroque Festival events are filmed.  By purchasing tickets, you are automatically consenting to the possibility of being caught on film.

 

This event is being organised by Festivals Malta.  For more information about the Valletta Baroque Festival and about other festivals please visit www.festivals.mt