HANDEL: Riccardo 1, Re d’Inghilterra*

HANDEL: Riccardo 1, Re d’Inghilterra* 22 November. London, Hm. Text based on F. Briani’s Isacio Tirrano, set by Lofti, Venice 1710, by P. A. Rolli. Three acts. In German (as Der misslungene Braut-Wechsel oder Richardus I, Koenig von England, translated by C. G. Wendt) Hamburg 3 February 1729 (with additional German airs by Telemann, while Handel’s airs were sung in Italian); another German version by an unknown translator (Richardus genannt das Löwen-Herz, König in Engelland) was given (with…