Canto e Pianoforte
Composer / Author: Händel, Georg Friedrich
Title: Ezio HWV 29 Opera in three acts
Detailed instrumentation: Soprano solo, Mezzo-soprano solo, Alto solo (2), Tenor solo, Bass solo, Orchestra
Librettist: nach Pietro Metastasio
Arranger: Köhs, Andreas
Editor: Pacholke, Michael
Translator / Further participants: Strohm, Reinhard
Product format: Piano reduction, Urtext edition
Comments: Replaces BA 4008-90
Language(s) of work: Italian, German
Language(s) of text: German, English
Publisher/Editore: Bärenreiter

As with many other libretti by Pietro Metastasio, “Ezio” was also set to music several times – besides Handel, by Nicola Porpora in 1728 and Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1750. As the historical events from late antiquity surrounding the Western Roman General Aëtius, who had defeated the Huns under Attila on the Catalaunian Fields, had largely fallen into oblivion by the 18th century, they merely form a backdrop to the highly-dramatic “Sex and Crime” on the operatic stage. In contrast with the original Roman story, “Ezio” remains alive at the “happy ending”, and the enthusiastic public experienced this version for the first time on 15 January 1732 in London .

However, despite this, the opera only received five performances during Handel’s lifetime. Handel took the overture from his incomplete opera “Titus l’Empereur”.

The new vocal score is based on Vol. II/26 of the Halle Handel Edition (BA 4086).


- Vocal score based on the Halle Handel Edition
- Original Italian text with German singing translation underlaid
- Figured bass realisation and editorial additions in cue-sized notes
- Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng)

CONTENUTO:

• Besetzung / Ensemble

• Vorwort

• Preface

• Verzeichnis der Szenen / Index of Scenes

• Ouverture

• Atto primo / Erster Akt

• Atto secondo / Zweiter Akt

• Atto terzo / Dritter Akt

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