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The Invention of English Opera: part two, the brief flowering of English opera, the rise of Italian opera and the development of ballad opera
[…] Semele in 1744, but with its risqué nature and hints of satire on the relationship between King George II and his mistress, the Countess of Yarmouth, Semele did not go down well (though labelled an oratorio, Handel's some-time collaborator Charles Jennens labelled it a bawdy opera!). The result was that English opera remained on the side-lines, and Handel developed the oratorio. Margherita de l'Épine (with a red muff), Catherine Tofts (in white), and some opera musicians (Rehearsal of an opera, by Marco Ricci, ca. 1709) The rise of Italian opera Italian opera singers started to appear in England in the late 17th century and by the early 18th there were attempts at putting on Italian opera in English translation, though when Bononcini’s Camilla was performed in 1706 it was bilingual so that the castrato Valentini […]
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