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	FanFaire: Ariodante
		Ariodante, one of Handel's lesser known operas, is considered to be one of his most inspired works - and the cast that San Diego Opera put together proved that it is. Indeed what guaranteed its success was the excellent casting, comprised of the new generation's foremost interpreters of Baroque music.
		In the opera, mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux (in one of her growing list of "trouser" roles) is Ariodante, betrothed to his beloved Ginevra (soprano Rosemay Joshua).
		He almost succeeds and the plot thickens: Ariodante attempts to end his life and Ginevra, falsely accused of infidelity, is desperately driven to madness.
	www.ffaire.com /joshua/ariodante_sdo.html (257 words)

	Ariodante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by Handel.
		The opera was first performed in the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 8 January 1735.
		Ariodante opened Handel's first season at Covent Garden and successfully competed against the rival Opera of the Nobility, supported by the Prince of Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariodante (209 words)

	Handel's 'Ariodante' at English National Opera, enjoyed by Robert Hugill
		Ariodante is the first opera which Handel wrote after he lost the services of his star castrato, Senesino, to the rival Opera of the Nobility.
		The tessitura of this role, the last Handel wrote for Senesino, seemed a little low for Coote and it was with relief that I heard her as Ariodante.
		After this moment, Ariodante disappears from the opera until Act 3, an interesting example of Handel and his librettist subsuming the requirements of opera seria to the necessities of the plot; this is one of those rare things, an opera seria which is almost entirely plot driven.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2006/06/ariodante3.htm (537 words)

	The Cincinnati Post
		Drawn from cantos 4-6 of "Orlando Furioso" (1516) by Ludovico Ariosto, "Ariodante" is the love-conquers-all story of Ginevra, daughter of the king of Scotland, and her betrothed, Ariodante.
		Ariodante's brother Lurcanio accuses Ginevra of causing Ariodante's death and offers to fight anyone who will be her champion.
		The king releases Ginevra from confinement and she and Ariodante are united.
	www.cincypost.com /2005/02/08/opera020805.html (826 words)

	Stopera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Set in the ancient kingdom of Scotland, 'Ariodante' is the story of rival dukes competing for the hand of the young Scottish princess Ginevra, and the rule of the land.
		Ariodante, a foreign prince in search of adventure, has fallen in love with Ginevra, and she with him.
		I found that the music in 'Ariodante' was at times quite repetitive, although further musical interest is provided by the fact that musical repeats in the arias have ornamentation added by the singers, both as musical arrangement and as improvisation.
	www.artshunter.com.au /cia/stopera.htm (1122 words)

	Ariodante @ Coliseum, London: opera review
		The performance had a magical aura about it, leaving the audience spellbound by the extraordinary vocal talents of a cast that was totally committed to the project at hand.
		Ariodante was written in 1734, a good ten years after the more popular Giulio Cesare.
		Polinesso, the duke, had been courting Ginevra, and tries to thwart the match, but the duke is eventually killed by Ariodante's brother Lurcanio, and the lovers are reunited.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/eno-ariodante_0606.htm (654 words)

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		Raymond Leppard was one of the first major conductors to develop an interest in baroque opera, although a British reviewer of this reissue recently lamented that Leppard ‘stuck his head in the sand and stopped learning’ at about the time this recording was made.
		Ariodante has arguably been better served by recordings than any other of Handel’s major operas, but we cannot avoid the fact that Leppard’s sounds dated in comparison to Nicholas McGegan’s (Harmonia Mundi) or Marc Minkowski’s (DG).
		Janet Baker’s Ariodante is still exemplary, and other recordings featuring Lorraine Hunt and Anne Sofie von Otter (both superb) have not eclipsed her magnificent performance.
	gfhandel.org /reviews/hwv033philips.htm (485 words)

	Ariodante
		Ariodante tells Polinesso about his forthcoming marriage to Ginevra and Polinesso, pretending to know nothing of the engagement, declares that Ginevra has on several occasions favoured him with unchaste tokens of love.
		The king is about to declare Ariodante his heir when Odoardo, a courtier of the king, comes in with the news that Ariodante has thrown himself into the sea.
		Ariodante returns to the king's court and explains everything, announcing Ginevra’s innocence and begging the king to pardon Dalinda for the unwitting part she has played.
	www.bayerische.staatsoper.de /c.php/spielplan/v_inhaltsangabe.php?id=24&termin=&l=en&dom=dom1 (455 words)

	Ariodante at ENO, London - Whats On in London
		Ariodante is betrothed to the daughter of the King of Scotland, Ginevra, but she is also being pursued by Polinesso, Duke of Albany.
		Polinesso plots to persuade Ariodante that Ginevra is unfaithful, by getting Dalinda to dress up as her mistress and meeting Polinesso when Ariodante can see them.
		Ariodante is persuaded - and the court hears that he has drowned in grief.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats_on_115027.html (387 words)

	Cremation and death: "Ariodante Fabretti" Foundation of Turin (Italy)
		The Ariodante Fabretti Foundation was born on June the 30
		The first meeting, focused on the historical importance of the eminent and versatile figure of Ariodante Fabretti, was organized by the Fabretti Foundation together with the “Museo del Risorgimento” and the Turin Cremation Society (Socrem).
		Thanks to the great experience accumulated in the past years on the topic of funerary rituals, the Ariodante Fabretti Foundation was asked by the Municipality of Milan technical advice in organizing lay funerary ceremonies in the Cemetery of Bruzzano.
	www.arpnet.it /fabretti/inglese/presentation.html (1282 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Handel with Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ariodante was created there in 1734, when Handel was at the peak of his powers.
		The conductor is also impressed, as far as Ariodante is concerned, by the lavishly orchestrated dream sequence of Ginevra, with its colorful dances at the end of Act II.
		For example, when it gets to the point at which A is disguised as B is disguised as C seducing D (whose gullibility is the greatest mystery of all), Hogwood says that "usually the music tells you exactly what is happening then, and you often don't need the supertitles.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/228.html (1130 words)

	Amazon.com: Handel - Ariodante / von Otter, Dawson, Cangemi, Podles, Croft, Sedov, Coadou, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There is no doubt that "Ariodante" is a wonderful opera and that's one of the reasons of its popularity among the conductors: today we have 3 good recordings of "Ariodante" and I am sure we will have more.
		The instrumentation of "Ariodante" is not as grand as in "Giulio Cesare", "Rinaldo" (1711) or "Teseo" which are designed to make a splash and to ravish the senses.
		In "Ariodante" the orchestra is `down-scaled' to strings, oboes, horns and continuo - a trumpet also appears when Ginevra is vindicated.
	amazon.com /Handel-Ariodante-Cangemi-Musiciens-Minkowski/dp/B0000060AK (4007 words)

	Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano: Ariodante - review excerpts
		Ariodante boasts a flawless assembly of seven -- count 'em seven -- principal singers, all of whom are perfectly cast.
		Genaux was dashing and endearing as Ariodante, a role she sang in Dallas in 1998.
		Her voice is supple rather than rich and she convincingly conveyed Ariodante’s youthful ardor and love, doubt, rage and final contentment.
	www.ffaire.com /genaux/genaux5a1.html (796 words)

	Ariodante
		Cast: Amy Burton (Ginevra), Kendra Colton (Dalinda), Rosemarie van der Hooft (Polinesso), Beth Clayton (Ariodante), Curtis Streetman (King of Scotland), Ryan Turner (Odoardo), and Jeffrey Thompson (Lurcanio).
		On October 16, I attended the season's final performance of Handel's "Ariodante" by the New York City Opera.
		An "opera seria" by Handel, "Ariodante" has a somewhat complicated plot involving an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to besmirch the honor of the princess Ginevra, perpetrated by a thwarted rival for the hand of the princess.
	www.geocities.com /jrpsong/ario.html (656 words)

	CLHAARIO.HTM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are 8 recordings of Ariodante by George Frideric Handel on file
		Ariodante by George Frideric Handel performed in Italian
		Ariodante by George Frideric Handel performed in English
	k.1asphost.com /clor/CLHAARIO.HTM (1456 words)

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		When he leaves, Lurcanio, Ariodante's brother, enters and tells Dalinda he loves her, but she says she is not for him (Del mio sol vezzosi rai — The lovely rays of my sun).
		ACT II: By a ruin from which a door leads to the apartments of Ginevra, Polinesso meets Ariodante and pretends to be amazed when he is told Ariodante and Ginevra are to be married.
		Ariodante hastens to return to court, while Dalinda cries down the wrath of heaven on the man who betrayed her.
	www.operapaedia.org /Opera.aspx?article=1014&id=4003 (874 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Take It from the Top
		They not only have to cope with his original, demanding vocal lines of sections "A" and "B," which never allow them to hide behind a surging orchestra, but the composer also expected the singers to personalize the repeated sections, always within the boundaries of their characters in the opera.
		In Ariodante there are four duets--extremely generous by Handelian standards, two in the first act (which together account for under three minutes of music), and two longer duets in the third act (lasting about ten minutes).
		One writer defined Baroque operas as "complex mosaics with the arias as articulate cameos." In Ariodante, Handel was such a skillful composer that he not only provided incredibly detailed, beautifully rendered cameos, but he actually brought those cameos to life, and in the process gave us a peek into our own hearts.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/226.html (1063 words)

	Fall in Love with Opera at CCM's Production of "Ariodante"
		One of Handel's lesser-known yet most inspired works, Ariodante is a stunning example of the beauty and intimacy of Baroque opera in a contemporary setting.
		Their marriage plans are thwarted by the scheming Polinesso, who has professed his unrequited love to Ginevra and is determined to prevent their happiness with the help of Dalinda, Ginevra's secretary.
		A romantic tale of young love that triumphs in spite of deceit, accusations of infidelity, attempted suicide and journeys into madness, Ariodante is set to a stunning and technically demanding score by one of the great masters of the Baroque era.
	www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=2327 (1112 words)

	Knights at the Opera, Part 12 - Sixteenth-Century Epic Poetry
		Because of the episodic nature of the work, it was easy for librettists to dip into only a small section (or connect interrupted sections) to create full-length operas concerned with only a few characters or incidents.
		Many of these operas are about the knight Orlando (Charlemagne's nephew), or else spin off such characters as Rinaldo (Orlando's cousin), Alcina (an evil sorceress), Ariodante (the Duke of Albany), or Ruggiero (son of the African king of Reggio).
		The plot: Ariodante is engaged to Ginevra, daughter of the king of Scotland.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/opera/87059 (440 words)

	Arts \| Ariodante; Turn of the Screw
		The latest season consists of two new shows, though the production of Handel's Ariodante (Conway's own) is shared with the Opera Theatre Company Ireland, who first presented it earlier this year.
		Ariodante turns out to be unremarkable, a salutary reminder of how hard it remains to present Handel's operas on stage effectively, though the Royal Opera's recent staging of Orlando did that too, far more expensively.
		Here Louise Mott in the title role is vocally decent but hardly provides the focus of attention she needs to, and the rest of the cast cope as best they can.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4785602-108884,00.html (346 words)

	Ariodante - Moviefone
		Synopsis: One of Georg Friedrich Handel's later operas (which also includes ballet sequences), Airodante is the story of a young woman whose father is the King...
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	movies.aol.com /movie/ariodante/1181257/main (142 words)

	HANDEL Ariodante [KM]: Classical DVD Reviews- Jun2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Handel’s Ariodante is one of his later operas, composed in 1735.
		Each of the three acts of Ariodante concludes with a ballet section.
		This is one of Handel’s finest operas, and shines through its excellent arias and beautiful instrumental sections.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Jun02/ariodante.htm (564 words)

	David Gregson's Opera West
		Though some purists may quibble about cuts in the score and certain features of the staging, anyone who knows anything at all about music and singing will be thrilled by the level of excellence achieved by San Diego Opera's first venture into Handelian territory.
		The latter is free of any supernatural elements (although in some productions the cruelly maligned heroine, Ginevra, experiences a feverish visitation of Bad and Good Dreams), but the loss of magic is more than compensated for by a taut plot infused by a psychological realism remarkable in the Handelian canon.
		Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux is utter perfection as the work's eponymous hero who is driven to despair by the apparent infidelity of his betrothed.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/ariodante.shtml (823 words)

	Richmond Theatre: Ariodante - English Touring Opera
		Ariodante - English Touring Opera - Saturday 18 October at 7:45 pm
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	Ariodante
		Ariodante erzählt Polinesso von seiner bevorstehenden Hochzeit mit Ginevra.
		Als Dalinda verabredungsgemäß in Ginevras Kleidern erscheint und sich mit Polinesso entfernt, glaubt Ariodante den Lügen des Herzogs.
		Ariodante kehrt an den Hof des Königs zurück und verkündet Ginevras Unschuld.
	bayerische.staatsoper.de /c.php/spielplan/v_inhaltsangabe.php?id=24&... (328 words)

	Emmanuel Music
		In 2007 Emmanuel Music will present a festival of three Handel operas, Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina, all of which are based on Orlando Furioso, the epic poem by the great Italian Renaissance poet, Ludovico Ariosto.
		Exactly two hundred years after Ariosto's poem captivated all of Europe in 1532, Handel used episodes from the novel and composed Orlando (1733), Ariodante (1735) and Alcina (1735), three of his greatest operas.
		When we hear these three stories of love's delusions, madness, and magic together, we understand Handel's vision in a way that is hidden from us when we see them as isolated individual operas, the "what they're about" has not been captured.
	www.emmanuelmusic.org (323 words)

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