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Handel Serse HWV 40 for Vocal Score (I/G)
Serse - Xerxes HWV 40
Opera in tre atti (ital./Ge.)
Piano reduction, Urtext version
1. Besetzung / Ensemble
2. Vorwort
3. Preface
4. Verzeichnis der Szenen / Index of Scenes 5. Ouverture
6. Atto primo / Erster Akt
7. Atto secondo / Zweiter Akt
8. Atto terzo / Dritter Akt
Handel started writing “ Serse ” on 26 December 1737 and completed the third act on 6 February 1738. The première took place on 15 April of the same year at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket. Four performances followed, after which the work was not heard again until 1924.
The opera focuses on the Persian king Serse , who, rather than serving as a military commander or statesman, appears at the centre of a highly complex love story. Handel provided an admixture of buffo elements (the antics of the servant Elviro , the stupidity of the soldier Ariodate ) to the standard ingredients of opera seria , such as the broadly declaimed woes of Serse , Romilda , Arsamene , and Amastre .
This interweaving of seemingly incompatible stylistic resources arose in Naples and can already be found in the 17th century librettos that served as the principal sources of Handel’s Serse .
Though unsuccessful at the time, today “ Serse ” is prized precisely for its comic undertones and is regularly seen on stage.
Our new Urtext vocal score is based on the volume edited by Terence Best for the “Halle Handel Edition” (series II/volume 39).
편곡자 Kohs, Andreas
작곡가 Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
에디터 Best, Terence
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