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	XXVI. d. Acis and Galatea. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
		Acis and I thought no more of him, till on a sudden he came to a spot which gave him a view of us as we sat.
		Acis turned and fled, crying, ‘Save me, Galatea, save me, my parents!’ The Cyclops pursued him, and tearing a rock from the side of the mountain hurled it at him.
		Thus Acis was changed into a river, and the river retains the name of Acis.
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	Acis and Galatea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Handel frequently re-used old material in his new works, and Acis and Galatea was no exception: it included material from his cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (1708), as well as others of his Italian cantatas.
		The basic plot is that Galatea, a semi-divine nymph, is in love with the shepherd Acis, who is friends with Damon, another shepherd.
		Galatea is distraught, but her attendants remind her that she is divine, so she turns him into a fountain, making him immortal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acis_and_Galatea (369 words)

	Handel Acis and Galatea [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dating from 1718, both ‘Acis and Galatea’ and the oratorio ‘Esther’ (also written for the Duke of Chandos for similarly small forces) would become important in the development of English oratorio.
		The libretto for ‘Acis and Galatea’ is at least partly attributable to John Gay who was a member of a group of writers associated with the Duke of Chandos and the Earl of Burlington.
		As Acis, Frederick Urrey has an attractive tenor voice, but his tendency to apply vibrato to notes means that each note sounds squeezed and this spoils any sense of line.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Nov03/Handel_Acis.htm (784 words)

	Acis & Galatea - Les Boréades de Montréal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Acis and Galatea is an incomparable masterpiece saturated with exquisite musical poetry.
		Acis and Galatea was Handel’s most popular work during his lifetime.
		Acis and Galatea shows another side to the composer, one of transparent lightness, refined sensuality, and tenderness.
	www.boreades.com /disques.e/boreades.acd_2_2302.html (1344 words)

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		By the time Acis and Galatea was written, in 1718, there was already considerable sentiment contra Italian opera in England, to a large extent fomented by the inability of the English opera-going public to understand the words.
		Acis was killed by the Cyclops Polyphemus, the same Cyclops who was later blinded by Odysseus in Book 9 of the Odyssey.
		When she expressed her preference for Acis (to the extent, it seems, of coupling with him in a grotto) Polyphemus discovered them and, in a jealous rage, crushed the 16-year-old Acis with a rock.
	www.pzweifel.com /music/acis.htm (964 words)

	Acis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiii.750-68) Acis was the spirit of the Acis River, which flowed past Akion (Acium) near Mount Etna in Sicily.
		According to Ovid's poem, Acis was the son of Faunus and the river-nymph Symaethis, daughter of the River Symaethus.
		Acis loved the sea-nymph Galatea, but a jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus, killed him with a boulder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acis (250 words)

	Music Associates of America ~ Handel's "Acis and Galatea" Newly Available
		Handel's masque Acis and Galatea has come down to us in two distinct versions sanctioned by the composer: the original conception of 1718, and the revision of 1739 and 1742 respectively.
		Handel himself did not specify the genre of Acis and Galatea in his autograph score, and probably as a result uncertainty arose among copyists, printers, and performers as to the work's proper designation, for it has come down to us with a confusing array of generic titles.
		In 1686 Lully wrote a pastorale héroique entitled Acis et Galathée for Paris; John Eccle's masque Acis and Galatea enjoyed great popularity in London from 1701 to 1723 (Handel was very probably acquainted with this work), and Giovanni Bononcini mounted an opera, Polifemo, at Charlottenburg near Berlin in 1702.
	www.musicassociatesofamerica.com /news/acis.html (652 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Handel: Acis and Galatea: Music: Georg Friederich Handel,William Christie,Arts Florissants Chorus,Arts ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Acis And Galatea: Act I: Chorus:' Oh, the pleasure of the plains' - William Christie
		The gentle nymph Galatea is the perfect role for Sophie Daneman's light soprano; Paul Agnew's gorgeous tenor is just as well suited to Acis--ardent and brave, yet light enough that you can believe the giant Polyphemus could crush him with a rock.
		Acis and Galatea is a delightful early work composed by Handel for James Brydges at Cannons.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Handel-Acis-Galatea-Georg-Friederich/dp/B00001SIBI (1151 words)

	NYCO: Acis and Galatea
		Galatea, first discovered upstage right on a swing descended from the flies, wore no turban, her shoulder-length hair hanging freely.
		Acis and the male choristers wore chinos, sandals and casual shirts, with Damon wearing tan Bermuda-type shorts instead of full-length trousers.
		All in all, NYCO’s Acis and Galatea provided this opera-goer with great pleasure and an escape from the cares of jobs, relationships, subways and crowded cities in a work from which he left with a smile and a feeling that he had been charmed enough to deal more easily with the pressures of today’s society.
	operajamboree.ragbert.com /Howard/howard21.html (627 words)

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		As sung here (and these are not negative comments) Acis is an unattractive character, and Galatea’s affections lack persuasive force.
		Anthony Rolfe-Johnson's Acis is unkind and spiteful — note the lack of hurry in his 'Love sounds the Alarm'.
		The essentially chamber-music quality of Acis and Galatea always entrances, but here it is rescued from bloated interpretation.
	gfhandel.org /reviews/acisgardiner.htm (410 words)

	Chicago Opera Theater - Reviews
		Variously described as a masque and a pastoral entertainment, Handel's "Acis and Galatea" remains one of that composer's most endearing works, full of musical felicity yoked to a story both blithe and serious.
		Smallwood's Acis is properly ardent and clear of voice.
		Lamos' direction of the two principals takes its cue from the ornamented vocal lines: When Acis and Galatea are nuzzling each other, their coloratura lines fairly quiver with erotic pleasure.
	www.chicagooperatheater.org /news/news-reviews-acis.shtml (562 words)

	NYCO's Acis and Galatea: Handel with Care
		The latest Glimmerglass import is Handel’s pastoral masque “Acis and Galatea”, premiered at the Alice Busch Opera House last summer.
		“Acis” is Handel’s unique venture into English language opera, with a poetic libretto by various hands, including John Gay, on a story from Ovid's "Metamorphoses".
		Acis was sung by American tenor William Burden, who made an impression as Pylades in the NYCO’s homoerotic Iphigenie en Tauride several years ago.
	www.scena.org /columns/anson/010327-PA-acis.html (902 words)

	ALHAACIS.HTM
		Acis and Galatea by George Frideric Handel performed in English
		Acis and Galatea by George Frideric Handel performed in German
		Acis and Galatea by George Frideric Handel performed in Italian
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	Acis and Galatea (sea nymph) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Galatea, (milk-white) was a type of sea nymph called a Nereids, who lived by the island inhabited by the Cyclops "Polyphemus", who was deeply in love with Galatea.
		Galatea and Acis used to mock Polyphemus songs of love for Galatea.
		Acis blood formed a stream beneath the rock.
	waltm.net /galatea2.htm (106 words)

	ACIS AND GALATEA (Haendel)
		Acis, a young shepherd, comes in search of his girlfriend Galatea.
		Galatea reassures Daemon that she is steadfast in her love for Acis.
		Galatea sings of her great and irreperable loss.
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	Michael Hurst Now: Herald Review of Acis and Galatea
		All in all, Acis and Galatea was a flat affair.
		Rhona Fraser's Galatea, though sweetly sung, was overly gracious for my taste, while John Murray's Acis was woefully inadequate.
		Acis' final watery "appearance" as a winding blue banner was a theatrical coup, true to the Masque tradition, although the lovers' hand-clutching during the opening chorus of Act Two proved more distracting than desperate and disconsolate.
	michaelhurstnow.com /acisgalateareview.html (342 words)

	Galatea
		He was the son of Pan.Galatea lived in the sea surrounding the island of Sicily where she met several times one of the Cyclopes, the monstrous one-eyed Polyphemus.
		Polyphemus was in love with Galatea and was unable to control his jealousy of Acis.
		Because Galatea was a sea-nymph and attendant of the sea-god Poseidon, her name had been given to one of the moons of the planet Neptune.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/galatea.html (204 words)

	Acis and Galatea by POUSSIN, Nicolas
		Galatea is a Nereid, or sea-nymph, of Sicilian origin.
		13:750-897) tells how she loved a handsome youth Acis and was herself loved by Polyphemus, a monstrous one-eyed giant, one of the race of Cyclops.
		Afterwards, wandering disconsolately among the rocks, he discovered her lying in the arms of Acis.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/p/poussin/1/10acis.html (115 words)

	The Story of Acis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Galatea was a sea nymph, a Nereid, who lived by the island inhabited by the Cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, who was deeply in love with Galatea.
		Galatea and Acis used to mock Polyphemus's songs of love for Galatea.
		The story of Acis and Galatea was told by Ovid in Book III of his Metamorphoses, and it is also the subject of a 1732 opera by Georg Friedrich Händel; here are excerpts from the Libretto, by John Gay:
	www.columbia.edu /acis/history/acis.html (261 words)

	OPERA at USC
		"Acis and Galatea fits well with young voices, and we have the voices to match the parts," said Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, director and director of Opera Studies at USC.
		Acis falls in love with Galatea, a sea nymph who nurses him back to health and immediately falls in love with him.
		Acis and Galatea, one of Handel's early works that is not widely produced, is based on the traditions of the English masque, which originated as entertainments performed by amateurs at aristocratic banquets.
	www.sc.edu /usctimes/articles/2006-10/opera_promo.html (574 words)

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		Inspired from Ovid, the pastoral masque Acis and Galatea was composed in 1718 when Handel was working for James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon (later the 1st Duke of Chandos).
		While it is unfair towards Handel if we suggest that the first part – with its languid pastoral rejoicing – did not inspire him, the second part relating Acis’s murder by the jealous giant Polyphemus gave him quite a few occasions to develop ideas with his customary dramatic skill.
		Suzie LeBlanc is occasionally vulnerable in her slowest sustained passages, but she is an absolutely charming Galatea, and her relative vocal fragility does contribute to this perfectly suitable charm.
	gfhandel.org /reviews/acisatma.htm (420 words)

	classical music - andante - the acis and galatea legend as retold by lully - and beautifully revived by ...
		The Acis and Galatea Legend as Retold by Lully - And Beautifully Revived by Washington's Opera Lafayette
		Ovid's tale of Acis and Galatea is familiar to opera lovers in the sturdy, tuneful and mostly lighthearted version created by George Frideric Handel.
		Instead of full-fledged arias, he gives us long passages of musical declamation, and in the dramatic action he is satisfied to present a world from a certain formal distance rather than attempting to transport the spectator to that world.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25234 (824 words)

	CHAPTER XXVI. Endymion- Orion- Aurora And Tithonus- Acis And Galatea.
		Endymion- Orion- Aurora And Tithonus- Acis And Galatea.
		ENDYMION - ORION - AURORA AND TITHONUS - ACIS AND GALATEA
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	Sheryl Smith
		Acis then sings to Galatea about Galatea and Galatea sings to Acis about Galatea, and they sing to each other about "Happy we,” and this is very pretty music but what with the repeats it sure takes a long time to get anywhere.
		At this point Damon demonstrates that his advice-giving is truly ubquitous, by offering advice to the Monster Polyphemus--which is, in essence, that he should be nice to Galatea if he wants to win her.
		Galatea claims to be inconsolable, but the chorus reminds her that she is a goddess and can fix this problem.
	testdesigns.com /acis.htm (663 words)

	Mythology Guide - Acis and Galatea
		Greek and Roman Mythology > Acis and Galatea
		grotto of Galatea, and tell her how she was persecuted.
		Thus Acis was changed into a river, and the river retains the
	www.online-mythology.com /acis_galatea (557 words)

	GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL/ William Christie/ Les Arts Florissants/ Sophie Daneman/
		Though one of Handel's most charming and popular works, Acis and Galatea seems to have engaged its audiences' affections more than those of its composer.
		Paul Agnew is a convincingly tender, yet headstrong Acis; Alan Ewing conveys Polyphemus' half- comic, half-monstrous bluster with terrific aplomb.
		Best of all is Sophie Daneman's refined yet vulnerable Galatea; her voice takes on a sensuous lustre in the early pastoral arias then darkens affectingly for the lament "Must I my Acis" and the elegiac "Heart, the seat of soft delight".
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/discography/1998/4694.php (202 words)

	Acis and Galatea - Theatre Arts - Ithaca College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Acis and Galatea - Theatre Arts - Ithaca College
		Recalling characters from ancient mythology, this opera tells the story of the young nymph Galatea who is in love with the shephard Acis.
		For single tickets to Acis and Galatea or any other Main Stage show go to Ticket Office
	departments.ithaca.edu /theatre/main/acis (162 words)

	City Opera: Acis and Galatea
		In their bucolic paradise, the nymph Galatea and the shepherd Acis are soul mates.
		But love conquers all when Galatea transforms her fallen hero into a stream that flows for all eternity.
		Here Ovid’s Metamorphoses is both the source and the inspiration for Acis and Galatea, one of Handel’s most elegant and sensual works.
	www.entertainment-link.com /event_details_music_new.asp?evs_id=303955 (497 words)

	Amazon.com: Handel: Acis and Galatea: Music: Jan Opalach,Susan Williams,George Frideric Handel,Gerard Schwarz,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Acis And Galatea: Act 1: Oh, The Pleasure Of The Plains (Chorus, Acis, Galatea)
		Acis And Galatea: Act 2: I Rage, I Melt, I Burn (Polyphemus)
		Acis And Galatea: Act 2: Air: Cease To Beauty To Be Suing (Polyphemus)
	www.amazon.com /Handel-Acis-Galatea-Jan-Opalach/dp/B0000006XT (578 words)

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