Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra
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One of the great Baroque works – Riccardo Primo, re d’Inghilterra, the only Handel opera based on the story of an English monarch – opens at the Real. Under the baton of Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants bring this musical treasure to life, together with the countertenor Hugh Cutting in the title role.
Title from the Teatro Real archive. Available exclusively to subscribers in Spain.
Opera in three acts.
Music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759).
Libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani’s libretto Isacio tiranno (1710).
Premiered at The King’s Theatre (London) on 11 november 1727.
Premiere at the Teatro Real
Concert version
Les Arts Florissants
