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	Rinaldo (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rinaldo and Armida by Francois Boucher, 1734 (Louvre Museum)
		Rinaldo is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
		Rinaldo was the first opera Handel produced for London and the first Italian opera composed specifically for the London stage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rinaldo_(opera) (330 words)

	Rinaldo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rinaldo a cantata for tenor solo, four-part male chorus and orchestra.
		Gian Rinaldo Monaldesco was a servant a Neapolitan patriot.
		Rinaldo de Lamare was a Brazilian physician specialized in pediatrics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rinaldo (169 words)

	Superb Rinaldo at New York City Opera
		Rinaldo’s Italian libretto by Aaron Hill, adapted from Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, tells the fantastical tale of Christian knights on a crusade to free Jerusalem from Muslim rule (sounds familiar).
		Rinaldo loves Almirena, daughter of the Christian general Goffredo, and agrees to prove his valour in the Holy Land to win her hand.
		The system’s presence was not as obvious during Rinaldo as it was during Roberto Devereux earlier this season, when Lauren Flanagan sounded just as loud singing into the wings as she did when facing the audience.
	www.scena.org /columns/anson/001031-PA-rinaldo.html (1312 words)

	Rinaldo - Handel
		Rinaldo was a hit in 1710 because the Italian singing style was new and arresting in England; because Handel quarried previous operas for their best tunes (not just his own operas either); and because it boasted special effects and stage machinery whose description still makes the jaw drop.
		Baroque operas were cut to ribbons, drastically rearranged, and the roles were frequently transposed, especially those composed for castrati, usually sung by men in much lower registers or women in trousers.
		The part includes half a dozen arias in various emotional keys: Rinaldo is a happy lover, a wretched lover, a confident fighter, a despairing fighter by turns, and he sings a happy duet with Almirena and an angry one with Armida.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Rinaldo.htm (1502 words)

	Berkshire Opera Company: Rinaldo synopsis
		The warrior Rinaldo reminds Goffredo, captain of the Christian armies, that he has been promised his daughter Almirena*s hand in marriage if Jerusalem is recaptured from Argante, the Saracen King.
		Act II Rinaldo and Goffredo complain of the distances they must travel to find the hermit, but Eustazio assures them they are close to their destination.
		Rinaldo is reunited with his companions and, when Armida once again tries to harm Almirena, Rinaldo prevents it.
	www.berkshireopera.org /synrin.html (392 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Armida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rinaldo's companions, after undergoing various trials, reach him on the island and force him to confront his folly by showing him his own reflection in his shield.
		Rinaldo, though still torn by feelings of love for Armida, abandons her and declares revenge.
		Rinaldo prevents her from destroying herself, and the two are reconciled with the implication that Armida will convert to Christianity and marry Rinaldo.
	www.operaworld.com /special/armida1.shtml (366 words)

	Seen and Heard: Handel's Rinaldo 31st July 1999: Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rinaldo proved an instant success for the 26 year-old composer and he subsequently revived the opera a number of times.
		Rinaldo has been promised the hand of Almirena, daughter of the General of the Crusade force, Goffredo, if the city is conquered.
		Rinaldo and Almira are reunited; Argante and Armida are captured and convert to Christianity.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/Rinaldo.htm (947 words)

	Berkshire Opera rises to 'Rinaldo' - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Living / Arts - News
		Rinaldo Opera by Handel, presented by Berkshire Opera in the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Thursday night.
		A few arias are famous, but the opera is full of music equally wonderful -- varied, surprising, charming, heartfelt, and unfailingly dramatic in its contrasts and in its progress.
		The opera was delightfully played by a first-rate chamber orchestra under the direction of Gary Thor Wedow, chorus master of the New York City Opera.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/07/11/berkshire_opera_rises_to_rinaldo (567 words)

	Rinaldo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Handel's lavish operatic spectacle Rinaldo is a feast for the senses, a theatrical treasure of the Baroque as compelling as it is magical.
		The opera tells of the legendary Christian warrior Rinaldo and his adventures as he attempts to liberate Jerusalem from the Saracens and win, against all odds, the fair Almirena's hand in marriage.
		Rinaldo and Goffredo have set out to find the cave of the Christian Hermit and come upon a great body of water in which floats a magical boat.
	www.opera-australia.org.au /opera/oaweb.nsf/lookups/RINALDO-OPER-?opendocument (910 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . George Frideric Handel \| PBS
		Four more operas followed in 1712-15, with mixed success; he also wrote music for the church and for court and was awarded a royal pension.
		Opera remained his central interest, and with the Academy impresario, Heidegger, he hired the King's Theatre and (after a journey to Italy and Germany to engage fresh singers) embarked on a five-year series of seasons starting in late 1729.
		The wide range of expression at his command is shown not only in the operas, with their rich and varied arias, but also in the form he created, the English oratorio, where it is applied to the fates of nations as well as individuals.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/handel.html (1182 words)

	TWO OPERAS, ONE WEEK, TWO HUNDRED YEARS
		One of the reasons for the current popularity of Handel's operas could be just what Negrin and Ellison are writing about-especially today when our political, military, corporate and professional leaders so often eschew conventional morality and ethics to either attain their goals or ensure their positions.
		Furthermore, these operas provide perfect expressive vehicles for the growing ranks of countertenors-male sopranos and mezzo-sopranos-the closest modern equivalent of the castrato voice, for which many of Handel's operatic roles were written.
		Furthermore, in the finale to Act II when she is attempting to overcome being spurned by Rinaldo, Goerke has a scene with a harpsichord and the harpsichordist in the orchestra.
	operajamboree.ragbert.com /Howard/howard15.html (1286 words)

	OPERA REVIEW: Baroque Romp By Kip Cranna (Pocket Opera, March 28, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Also familiar from past experiences with this group was the somewhat slap-dash but exuberant performance, showing clear signs of minimal rehearsal but enthusiastic commitment, with a cast that included some fine singers, and a chamber ensemble of capable instrumentalists who had many splendid moments and a few near-disasters.
		As this spiteful sorceress smitten with Rinaldo, Marcelle Dronkers used her large voice and forceful presence to raise a stirring ruckus in the vengeful “Furie terribili.” Her flirtatious “Molto voglio” — nicely enhanced by the eloquent oboe of Janet Archibald — found Dronkers a little under pitch and shrill.
		Kelly Powers made her Pocket Opera Debut with suitable vocal allure as a mermaid, while a couple of other roles were eliminated without ill effect.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/pocketopera_3_30_04.php (863 words)

	Radio National - The Music Show 16/07/2005
		This opera was his first opera in England, and he wanted to really make a tremendous mark, not only as a composer, but also as a player.
		It’s most amazing how many operas have been written on the troubles of the Middle East, and it’s something that goes with us from generation to generation, as we know only too well now, and this opera, Rinaldo, presents us with two equally fanatical parties, Christians and Saracens- the Christians wanting to take over Jerusalem.
		You would think that these operas which are 200 to 300 years old might have had their day, but in fact they’ve since the 1960s really, been making quite a comeback.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s1458221.htm (2085 words)

	Never mind the language, what a spectacle - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		It would also have had the assent of many opera composers, including Wagner, who once advised 19th-century correspondents in Melbourne proposing to present one of his operas that his works should always be given in English in an English-speaking country.
		Principal singers of international renown need their performances to be readily portable (that is, without having to learn a new set of words) and, in aesthetic terms, there is an undoubtedly strong affinity between the sound of the original language and the way it is set.
		The cause of opera in vernacular translation is not lost (though some of its partisans fail to credit music with its overriding contribution to opera's blend of arts).
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts/never-mind-the-language-what-a-spectacle/2005/07/17/1121538862040.html (807 words)

	Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano as Rinaldo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If you missed Vivica's triumphant role debut as Rinaldo at the Festival de Montpellier or her performances at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music last summer, there's no reason why you should miss the CD - recorded by basically the same cast that performed at Innsbruck and now available at your favorite record store.
		Rinaldo, an opera in 3 acts by George Frideric Handel: with the Freiburger Barockorchester under the direction of the eminent master of Early Music, Reneé Jacobs.A co-production of the l'Opéra National de Montpellier, the Innsbrucker Festwochen, and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.
		(listen to Rinaldo's aria Venti turbini) but is intercepted by Armida who falls in love with the hero and tries to seduce him - in vain - by transforming herself into Almirena.
	www.ffaire.com /genaux/vgrinaldo1.html (472 words)

	Decca Music Group - New Release
		The opera includes the heart-stopping aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" (sung by Bartoli), as well as many more wonderful arias divided amongst the other stellar cast members including Gerald Finley, Luba Orgonasova and Bernarda Fink.
		Cecilia Bartoli has been exploring and revitalising Baroque repertoire over the last several years and this new recording of Handel's opera Rinaldo is the latest to receive her special touch.
		Rinaldo was Handel's first opera written for London audiences and is the most frequently revived of his operas.
	www.deccaclassics.com /newsandnewreleases/autumn2000/rinaldo.html (235 words)

	OPERA REVIEW; Handel's First London Hit: Still an Enchanting World - New York Times
		First-rate singers are the messengers who carry ''Rinaldo'' to 21st- century audiences, but it is the translators of that message who bear the key.
		It is not easy, but the New York City Opera's new production of Handel's first big hit on London's operatic stage gets a number of things right.
		Opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel, libretto by Giocomo Rossi, after Tasso's ''Gerusalemme Liberata''; Harry Bicket, conductor; joint production and direction by Francisco Negrin and Anthony Baker; choreographer, Ana Yepes; lighting by Allen Hahn.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE2DE1F30F930A35752C1A9669C8B63 (617 words)

	Loney's Show Notes
		For this opera to work at all on stage, it is absolutely necessary to have a wonderfully handsome and sexually magnetic Mateo who is visibly—and understandably—driven mad by the luscious beauty, sultry sexuality, provocative gestures, and contemptuous indifference of Conchita.
		Rinaldo is, fortunately, one opera that cannot be updated by setting it in a Nazi Concentration Camp and invoking the unearned emotions of the Holocaust.
		Interesting opera updatings—if they are Werktreu, or true to the events and atmosphere of the libretto and to the emotions in the music—are often a welcome re-introduction to an old favorite.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /lt00122t.htm (5101 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of George Frideric Handel
		opera was declining and began, somewhat unwillingly, to develop the genre of dramatic oratorios which is perhaps his most orig.
		Nevertheless he continued to write operas and between 1737 and 1740 comp.
		such as the concerti grossi, sonatas, and suites, it is in the operas and oratorios that the nobility, expressiveness, invention, and captivation of his art are found at their highest degree of development.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/handel.html (1029 words)

	Berkshire Opera: Rinaldo
		But when wicked sorcery intervenes, a romance is torn apart and victory is in jeopardy.
		Only the work of magic and the resolve of the hero Rinaldo can save the day.
		Don't miss this story of love, deception and magic as told by one of the great masters of the Baroque period.
	www.berkshireopera.org /rinaldo.html (99 words)

	Loney's Show Notes
		If anyone in the audience had never seen the opera before—or even if he or she actually had read the synopsis of the libretto—what happened on the vast stage of the National Theatre would still be a mystery.
		AS a prelude to the actual action of the opera, a group of young men—who seemed to be soccer-fans—divested themselves of their clothes on the forestage.
		The real problem with such commissioned operas, he insisted, was that the composers had made their names with other musical forms.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /lt03073t.htm (5307 words)

	Index
		After obtaining a leave from the court, he arrived in London in December 1710 where he wrote the Italian opera Rinaldo in 15 days, which was well received.
		From 1720 to 1728 he was involved in the Royal Academy of Music at the Haymarket Theatre, for the performance of Italian opera.
		Upon his return to London he took up the fight for the acceptance of Italian opera, writing two or three operas a year in competition with the ‘Opera of the Nobility’ sponsored by the Prince of Wales.
	www.sarasotachoralsociety.org /Handel.htm (820 words)

	Amazon.com: Handel: Rinaldo: Music: George Frideric Handel,Rene Jacobs,Vivica Genaux,Lawrence Zazzo,Miah ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is indeed a luxury to have 3 decent recordings of Rinaldo on period instruments when so many of Handels operas are still to be recorded, but if the name of Ren Jacobs appears on the last one, well, thats as good a reason to buy it as you are going to get.
		Rinaldo is a bravura role, and demands a considerable voice.
		But opera is first and foremost about singing and it is the singing that I found rather undistinguished in this set, something that really surprised me because Jacobs had always a great ear for voices.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008N6IW?v=glance (2635 words)

	British Light Opera
		HE two forms of British light opera with which we will deal are comic opera and musical comedy.
		Both are lineal descendants of the ballad opera, that eighteenth-century protest against the Italian conquest of the London operatic scene, which began with the arrival of Handel, who visited London and produced his opera Rinaldo there in 1712.
		After that no native opera enjoyed a lasting popularity until the Gilbert and Sullivan series, which belongs to that very type.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/lightopera001.html (744 words)

	Harmonia Mundi
		Soprano Vivica Genaux is a thrilling Rinaldo, combining spot-on technical command (does she ever need to breathe?) with a lustrous tone and fierce dramatic intelligence.
		In 1711, 'Rinaldo' wasn't anything we'd recognize as classical music; the term, in fact, didn't exist, and musicians didn't perform with anything even close to the formality we take for granted today.
		It was Handel's first Italian opera for his London audiences, and was a spectacular success...Devoid of the visuals, the performances seem mainstream dazzling - led by the instrumental brilliance of the Freiburg orchestra.
	www.harmoniamundi.com /usa/album_presse.php?album_id=503 (1539 words)

	classical music - andante - rinaldo alessandrini/concerto italiano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		2000 Rinaldo Alessandrini is invited by the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall to give a cycle devoted to Bach.
		Rinaldo Alessandrini is admired as a conductor for his original and expressive approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century vocal repertoire.
		He appeared as a guest conductor at the 1998 Spoleto Festival in Handel's Semele, and during the 1997-98 season in L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) with Welsh National Opera (filmed by the BBC) and L'Olimpiade (Vivaldi) at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=23263 (1235 words)

	classical music - andante - director of vienna's burgtheater to take helm at bavarian state opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Klaus Bachler will leave for the Munich opera when his 10-year-contract with the Burgtheater expires, theater spokeswoman Konstanze SchÃ¤fer said in a statement Tuesday [May 10].
		The opera's director, Peter Jonas, and its musical director, Zubin Mehta, are leaving in the summer of 2006.
		Rinaldo, TannhÃ¤user and Der Rosenkavalier at the 2003 Munich Opera Festival
	www.andante.com /Article/article.cfm?id=25472&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (312 words)

	INKPOT :: Singapore International Piano Festival 2005 : Kun-Woo Paik
		His entry into the city which was to be his home for the rest of his life was a triumphant one: Rinaldo was an immediate success, with its lavish plot and extravagant spectacle, including fireworks, waterfalls, Amazons, mermaids, airborne chariots, fire-breathing dragons and dramatic battles and magics.
		Among the cuts and changes introduced by Pinnock was the omission of the role of Eustazio, which came from Handel’s own 1713 revision in which the part was combined into that of his elder brother Goffredo.
		Both of them catch the characterizations of their respective roles to perfection: Almirena with her sincere love for Rinaldo but whose outward strength is a façade; Armida whose emotional state is a pendulum swinging between the extremities of love and hate.
	inkpot.com /concert/sydrinaldo2005.html (784 words)

	Handel Arias Bell CKD 252 [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- October 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the opera business, undoubtedly talent helps but it being in the right place at the right time can be a bonus.
		This disc of Handelian opera seria is thus intended as something of a showcase for her talent and was made possible thanks to a grant from the Borletti-Buitoni trust.
		She includes arias from operas that she has performed in (Rinaldo, Radamisto and Rodelinda) but interestingly for the Rinaldo arias chooses two of Polinessa’s rather than those of Tigrane (the character she sang for Opera North).
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/Oct05/handel_bell_CKD252.htm (780 words)

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