Partenope
Sign in to savePartenope (Parthenope), HWV 27, is an opera by George Frideric Handel, first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 24 February 1730. Although following the structure and forms of opera seria, the work is humorous in character and light-textured in music, with a plot involving romantic complications and gender confusion. A success with audiences at the time of its original production and then unperformed for many years, Partenope is now often seen on the world's opera stages.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Partenope
- Opera.composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Opera.image
- Georg Friedrich Händel - Partenope - title page of the libretto - London 1730.png
- Opera.caption
- Title page of the libretto, London 1730
- Opera.based_on
- libretto by Silvio Stampiglia
- Opera.premiere_location
- King's Theatre, London
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13 sectionsContents
- Background
- Performance history
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Musical features
- Recordings
- Audio recordings
- Video recording
- References
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Partenope (Parthenope), HWV 27, is an opera by George Frideric Handel, first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 24 February 1730. Although following the structure and forms of opera seria, the work is humorous in character and light-textured in music, with a plot involving romantic complications and gender confusion. A success with audiences at the time of its original production and then unperformed for many years, Partenope is now often seen on the world's opera stages.
==Background== The opera, which is in three acts, is composed to an Italian libretto adapted by an unknown hand from a libretto originally written in 1699 by Silvio Stampiglia. Stampiglia's libretto had received many previous settings, including one by Caldara which Handel may have seen in Venice around 1710.