FULL Admeto (Handel) From Hell to Antigone Opera-Movie New York 2024

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Admeto From Hell to Antigone based on Admeto, Re di Tessaglia  
• Composer: Handel George Frideric aka Händel Georg Friedrich  
• Libretto: Nicola Francesco Haym adapted by Jeffrey Mandelbaum    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Campos Community Garden, New York City  
• Recorded: May 22-25, 2024
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Hans Tashjian, Jeffrey Mandelbaum, Kristin Renee Young, Nicole Besa, Melisa Bonetti
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Baroque Orchestra  
• Stage Director: H. Paul Moon   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: H. Paul Moon (Zen Violence Films)  
• TV Director: H. Paul Moon   
• Date Published: 2024  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

“Admeto: From Hell to Antigone” by George Frideric Handel a distillation of the 1727 original

Admeto, re di Tessaglia (“Admetus, King of Thessaly”, HWV 22) is a three-act opera written for the Royal Academy of Music with music composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian-language libretto prepared by Nicola Francesco Haym. The story is partly based on Euripides’ Alcestis. The opera’s first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second of the five operas that Handel composed to feature specifically these two prime donne of the day.

The opera was very successful at its first performances. However the presence of two prima donnas in the London operas had created factions of very partisan supporters of either one or the other ladies, and some performances were disrupted by hisses and loud cat calls by supporters of one of the star sopranos whenever the other one was singing, creating public scandal.

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