18th-Century Operas Directory of free resources on the net

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Libretti - various types of secular music

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Albinoni Tomaso 1671-1751 Pimpinone (Interludes) Pietro Pariati Libretti d'opera italiani 22 November 1708, Venice Three comic interludes.
Cimarosa Domenico 1749-1801 Il maestro di cappella (Interlude) ??? Karadar 1790 Intermezzo giocoso
Conti Nicola [Niccolò] 1733-1754 L'endimione (Cantata) Pietro Metastasio LiberLiber - Metastasio 1752 Napoli Cantata. 2 parts
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) John Gay Stanford.edu   Serenata. Composed c. 1718. One-part Masque.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) John Gay Karadar   Serenata. Composed c. 1718. One-part Masque.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) John Gay Naxos   Serenata. Composed c. 1718. A Masque in Two Acts.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) John Gay Stanford.edu   Serenata. Composed c. 1718. A Masque in Two Acts.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Acis e Galatea (Masque in two acts) John Gay HAENDEL.IT   Composed c. 1718. HWV 49a. Masque in 2 acts.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Alceste (Masque or semi-opera) Tobias Smollett after Euripides HAENDEL.IT Composed 1749. The performance planned for Covent Garden in 1750 did not take place. Masque or semi-opera. HWV 45
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Alexander's Feast (An Ode) Newburgh Hamilton Stanford.edu Composed 1736 Ode.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Alexander's Feast (An Ode) Newburgh Hamilton Karadar Composed 1736 Ode.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode) Charles Jennens Karadar Composed 1740 Ode.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode)
(English libretto)
Charles Jennens Naxos Composed 1740 Ode.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode)
(German libretto)
Charles Jennens Naxos Composed 1740 Ode.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode)
(German libretto)
Charles Jennens Stanford.edu Composed 1740 Ode.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 The Choice of Hercules (Interlude / One-act cantata) Attributed to Thomas Morell, after The Judgement of Hercules by Robert Lowth (1747) Karadar Composed 1751. 1 March 1751, Covent Garden, London. Musical interlude/one-act cantata, secular oratorio. HWV 69.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 The Choice of Hercules (Interlude / One-act cantata) Attributed to Thomas Morell, after The Judgement of Hercules by Robert Lowth (1747) Stanford.edu Composed 1751. 1 March 1751, Covent Garden, London. Musical interlude/one-act cantata, secular oratorio. HWV 69.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 The Choice of Hercules (Interlude / One-act cantata) Attributed to Thomas Morell, after The Judgement of Hercules by Robert Lowth (1747) HAENDEL.IT Composed 1751. 1 March 1751, Covent Garden, London. Musical interlude/one-act cantata, secular oratorio. HWV 69.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Esther, detto anche Haman and Mordecai
(A Masque)
Words by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope Karadar 1718, Cannons, Edgeware Masque in six scenes. HWV 50a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Esther, detto anche Haman and Mordecai
(A Masque)
Words by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope HAENDEL.IT 1718, Cannons, Edgeware Masque in six scenes. HWV 50a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Esther, detto anche Haman and Mordecai
(A Masque)
Words by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope Stanford.edu 1718, Cannons, Edgeware Masque in six scenes. HWV 50a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 An Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Ode) John Dryden Stanford.edu 22 November 1739, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London Ode. HWV 76.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Benedetto Pamphilj HAENDEL.IT June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Benedetto Pamphilj Opernhaus Zürich June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
(German libretto)
Benedetto Pamphilj Opera Guide (Switzerland) June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
(English libretto)
Benedetto Pamphilj Karadar June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a.
Handel George Frideric 1685-1759 Il Trionfo del Tempo e della Veritŕ Benedetto Pamphilj HAENDEL.IT 23 March 1737, Covent Garden, London Oratorio in three parts. HWV 46b.
Haydn Franz Joseph 1732-1809 L'isola disabitata (Azione teatrale) Pietro Metastasio Libretti d'opera italiani 6 Dicembre 1779, Esterháza Azione teatrale. 2 parts.
Marcello Benedetto 1686-1739 Arianna (Intreccio in 2 parts) Vincenzo Cassani Libretti d'opera italiani Inverno 1726 Intreccio scenico-musicale. 2 parts.
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791 Il sogno di Scipione (Serenata) Pietro Metastasio OperaGlass (1.5.1772 Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg) Dramatic serenade in one act. K.126
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791 Il sogno di Scipione (Serenata) Pietro Metastasio Karadar (? 1.5.1772 Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg) Dramatic serenade in one act. K.126
Rousseau Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) Le Devin du village (Interlude) Jean-Jacques Rousseau Bob Frone 18 October 1752, Fontainebleau Interlude in 1 act.
Sarro
(Sarri)
Domenico 1679-1744 L'impresario delle Canarie (Dorina e Nibbio) (Interludes - 2 parts) Pietro Metastasio Libretti d'opera italiani Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Napoli Carnevale, 1 Febbraio 1724 Intermezzi. 2 parts. Performed with Didone abbandonata.
Sarro
(Sarri)
Domenico 1679-1744 L'Impresario - The Master of the Opera (English translation of L'impresario delle Canarie (Interludes - 2 parts).) Pietro Metastasio The Domenico Sarro Page King's theater , Haymarket, London, 1737 Intermezzi. 2 parts.
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