Amadigi di Gaula
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Amadigi di Gaula is a "magic" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel. It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for an English theatre and the second he wrote for Richard Boy
Burlington House in the 1690s
Anastasia Robinson, who created the role of Oriana
A Masquerade ball at the King's Theatre, Haymarket (c. 1724)
Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, printed in Zaragoza by Jorge Coci (1508).
Amadis de Grèce
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Amadis de Grèce is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique on 26 March 1699. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prolog
Amadigi di Gaula
…wrote for an English theatre and the second he wrote for Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington in 1715. The opera about a damsel in distress is based on Amadis de Grèce, a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Amadigi was written for a small cast, employing four high voices…
Composer André Cardinal Destouches
Amadis, character of the opera Amadis de Grèce by André Cardinal Destouches
A scene from Act III of André Destouches's opera Amadis de Grèce. Amadis gazes at his reflection in the fountain of the truth of love; Melisse stands at left.
Académie Royale de Musique