Canto e Pianoforte
Composer / Author: Händel, Georg Friedrich
Title: Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto HWV 25 Dramma per musica in thre acts
Detailed instrumentation: Soprano solo (2), Mezzo-soprano solo, Alto solo, Bass solo, Treble Recorder (2), Flute, Oboe (2), Bassoon, Horn (2), Strings, Basso continuo
Librettist: Haym, Nicola Francesco
Arranger: Pacholke, Michael
Translator / Further participants: Pacholke, Michael
Product format: Piano reduction, Urtext edition
Language(s) of work: Italian
Pages / Format: XIX, 296 S. - 27,0 x 19,0 cm Publisher/Editore: Bärenreiter

“ Tolomeo ” was Handel’s last opera for the Royal Academy of Music in London . Composed between March and 19 April 1728, it was premiered on 30 April. Handel revived the opera several times further: in 1730 in an extensive revision, with seven performances, and in 1733 with four performances.
The historical background is the dispute between Cleopatra III and her younger son Ptolemaio X Alexander I ( Tolomeo ). In 110 BC Cleopatra drove Tolomeo out of Egypt . She died, irreconciled to him, in 101 BC.

The new vocal score is based on the “Halle Handel Edition” (vol. II/20), published in 2000. The main part contains the version from the premiere. The extensive appendix also enables later versions to be performed.

• Based on the Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition
• Thoroughly revised, practical performing vocal score
• Italian text, with German singing translation
• Detailed foreword in two languages (German/English)

CONTENUTO:
• Besetzung / Ensemble

• Vorwort

• Preface

• Argomento / Vorbericht

• The Argument

• Index of Scenes / Verzeichnis der Szenen

• Overture / Ouvertüre

• Atto primo / Erster Akt

• Atto secondo / Zweiter Akt

• Atto terzo / Dritter Akt

• Anhang / Appendix

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