| | HANDEL |
 | | o In common with the other operas of Handel's 1734-5 season, the opera included dance sequences for Marie Sallé's company (NB: ballet which originally ended Act II was replaced before performance by the short two-movement Entrée de' Mori and transferred to Alcina). |
| | · by spring 1737 the great opera war was over – Handel joined Heidegger and the remnants of the Opera of the Nobility at King's Theatre Haymarket, but attempts to raise subscription for 1738-9 season failed, and Italian opera collapsed for the third time in just over 20 years. |
| | It is one of three Handel operas adapted from the famous C16 pastoral epic, Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (the others being Ariodante and Alcina). |
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