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Handel Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto HWV 25 -Dramma per musica in thre acts-

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Handel Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto HWV 25 -Dramma per musica in thre acts-

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Editor: Pacholke, Michael

Orchestral scoring : 2SSolo/MezSolo/ASolo/BSolo/2recorder-A/Fl/2Ob/bassoon/2Hn/Str/Bc

Language(s) of work: I

Language(s) of text: I

Product format: complete edition, score, Urtext edition

Binding: Linen

Pages / Format: XLVIII, 325 - 33,1 x 25,6 cm

“ 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)