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Hercules (HWV 60) is a Musical Drama in three acts by George Frideric Handel, composed in July and August 1744. The English-language libretto was by the Revd. Thomas Broughton after The Trachini...
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Hercules, surnamed Alcides (bass) ... Dejanira; O Hercules! Why art thou absent from me? Return, return, my hero, to my arms! O gods, how racking are the pains of absence; To one who loves, who fondly loves, like me! ... Lichas; Banish your fears! The noble Hercules; Lives, and from sacked Oechalia, which his arms;
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; Handel Hercules, HWV60. New ... Handel composed Hercules for his 1744-45 oratorio season at the King's Theatre, Haymarket as the secular foil to one of his most ambitious sacred dramas, Belshazzar, hoping to repeat the success of the previous season's Samson / Semele pairing.
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Handel: Hercules; Minkowski/Les Musiciens du Louvre; Archiv DG 469 532 2 (3 CD - 175.69); 4 stars $$$; ... Hercules is a serious work, like an oratorio in pace, with da capo arias and choral closures to each act. It offers more drama and melody than coloratura fireworks. As Dejanira, Swedish mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter...
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From the 2004 Aix en Provence Festival comes this Luc Bondy staging of Handel's oratorio Hercules, an achingly serious and sober portrayal of Olympian rage and jealousy.
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Handel: Hercules; Lynne Dawson (Iole); Anne Sofie von Otter (Dejanira); David Daniels (Lichas); Richard Croft (Hyllus); Gidon Saks (Hercules); Marcos Pujol (Priest); Choeurs des Musiciens du Louvre; Les Musiciens du Louvre;
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Handel: Hercules / Minkowski, Von Otter, Croft, Et Al, available at ArkivMusic ... The role of Hercules, a bass, is taken by Gidon Saks, who has a voice of flexibility and power. An Israeli who studied in England and Canada, his English diction is superb, and he paints a picture of ... Hercules, HWV 60 by George Frideric Handel ;
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