Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19 (Handel, George Frideric)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts
Composition Year 1725/01/20 (end date)
Genre Categories Opera seria; Theatrical Works; Operas; For 6 voices, orchestra; For voices with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring the orchestra; Italian language; For harpsichord (arr); Scores featuring the harpsichord (arr); For 1 player (arr); For orchestra (arr); Scores featuring the orchestra (arr); For keyboard (arr); Scores featuring keyboard soloists (arr); For voice, continuo (arr); For voices with continuo (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores with basso continuo; For voice, mixed chorus, keyboard (arr); Scores featuring mixed chorus (arr); For voices and chorus with keyboard (arr); For trumpet, organ (arr); Scores featuring the trumpet (arr); Scores featuring the organ (arr); For 2 players (arr)

Contents

Performances

Naxos

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Aria: Dove sei, amato bene? (Act I, sc.6)

For Voice, Mixed Chorus and Keyboard (Knuth)

 Synthesized Performance
#237274 - 3.14MB - 3:26 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 634×⇩ - MP3 - Reccmo

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Reccmo (2012/6/23)

Publisher Info. Altena: Jürgen Knuth
Performers Synthesized MIDI
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Prelude (Act I, Sc.10)

For Trumpet and Organ (Rondeau)

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#435950 - 2.37MB - 2:35 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 74×⇩ - MP3 - Michrond

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Michrond (2016/8/20)

Publisher Info. Michel Rondeau
Performers MIDI
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Sheet Music

Full Scores

Complete

 Complete Score
#19008 - 25.56MB, 138 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 17584×⇩ - Ivdruiz

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Ivdruiz (2008/7/17)

Editor Friedrich Chrysander (1826–1901)
Publisher. Info. Georg Friedrich Händels Werke. Band 70
Leipzig: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1876. Plate H.W. 70.
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Act II

 Aria (Bertarido): Scacciata dal suo nido
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Editor Alexander E. Volkov
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Misc. Notes Based on Chrysander edition
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 Duet: Io t'abbraccio
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Pgosta (2025/4/21)

Editor Predrag Gosta (b. 1972)
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Act III

 Aria (Grimoaldo): Pastorello d'un povero armento
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Editor Hayden Muhl
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Misc. Notes Based on Chrysander edition. LilyPond source attached to full score
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Parts

Act II. Aria (Bertarido): Scacciata dal suo nido

 Violins
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 Continuo (Cellos, Basses, Keyboard)
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Editor Alexander E. Volkov
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Act II. Duet: Io t'abbraccio

 Violin I
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 Violin II
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 Continuo
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 Continuo (with singers' part)
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Editor Predrag Gosta (b. 1972)
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Act III. Aria: Pastorello d'un povero armento

 Grimoaldo (tenor with unrealized continuo)
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⇒ 4 more: Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Continuo (Cellos/Basses/Keyboard)

 Violins I
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 Violins II
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 Violas
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 Continuo (Cellos/Basses/Keyboard)
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Editor Hayden Muhl
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Misc. Notes Based on Chrysander edition. LilyPond source attached to full score
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Vocal Scores

Complete

 Complete Score
#111848 - 8.35MB, 108 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/28 - 14291×⇩ - Daphnis

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Daphnis (2011/8/1)

Arranger Oskar Hagen (1888–1957), piano reduction
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, 1923. Plate 10349.
Reprinted 1951. Catalog 3784.
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Selections

 Duo: Io t'abbraccio
#879761 - 7.64MB, 6 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 13×⇩ - Royal College o...

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Royal College o... (2023/10/12)

Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.(ca.1700s).
Copyright
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Misc. Notes From Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): MS 2254
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 Aria: Dove sei, amato bene?
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 Aria: Con rauco mormorio
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Massenetique (2011/11/7)

Editor Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909)
Language English / Italian
Translator Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935), English text
Publisher. Info. "Where now art thou, my own beloved one?"
"With mournful sounds of weeping"
Songs and Airs by George Frideric Handel, Vol.II: For Low Voice (pp.31-38)
Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1905. Plate ML-1123, 1124.
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 Duo: Io t'abbraccio (Act II, sc.7)
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 Aria: Dove sei, amato bene?
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Language English
Translator William Gurney Rothery (1858–1930)
Publisher. Info. Novello's School Songs, No.1038.
London: Novello & Co. Ltd., n.d.[1910].
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Misc. Notes "Art thou troubled?"
From uploader's collection. In key F major. Tonic sol-fa notation below the staff
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 Aria: Dove sei, amato bene?
#749975 - 1.40MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 37×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2021/12/9)

Arranger Isaac Nathan (1790–1864), arrangement and ornamentation
Language English
Publisher. Info. Musurgia Vocalis
London: J. Fentum, 1836.
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Misc. Notes English Text: Holy, holy Lord God almighty
Included in the category Vocal Ornamentation.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Ouverture

For Harpsichord

Addfilenum[1]

See: 65 Keyboard Pieces, D-Dl Mus.1-T-6

Ouverture-Suite

For Orchestra

 Complete Parts
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Copyist Johann Gottfried Grundig (ca.1706–1773)
Johann Gottlieb Morgenstern (1687–1763)
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.[1725-35].
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Schrank II coll.
Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl): Mus.2410-F-26
Movements 2 and 3 are from Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:D15 by Telemann, movement 4 is by an unknown composer, movements 5 and 6are from Ouverture-Suite, FaWV K:D21 by Fasch. Flute parts have been added, even though they are not in the original works.
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Menuet (Ouverture)

For Keyboard (Heidtmann)

 Complete Score
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Aria: Dove sei, amato bene? (Act I, Sc.6)

For Voice and Continuo

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Feduol (2018/8/16)

 Extract (detailed image)
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Feduol (2018/8/16)

Arranger Anonymous
Copyist Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807)
Publisher. Info. Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse
Oil on canvas, 1781.
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For Voice, Mixed Chorus and Keyboard (Knuth)

 Complete Score
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 Choral Score
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 Keyboard Instrument
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Reccmo (2012/6/23)

Arranger Jürgen Knuth
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Misc. Notes German text Sag, wo weilst du
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Prelude (Act I, Sc.10)

For Trumpet and Organ (Rondeau)

 Complete Score and Trumpet Part
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 Engraving files (Finale & XML)
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Arranger Michel Rondeau
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Librettos

 Complete Italian/English Libretto (1725)
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 Italian Text (1725)
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 English Translation (1725)
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Editor Colin Wake (b. 1950)
Publisher. Info. Colin Wake, 2022.
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Misc. Notes The 1725 Audience Wordbook transcribed for convenient modern use.

The separate language pages are more precise transcripts for study purposes.

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General Information

Work Title Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi
Alternative. Title
Name Translations Rodelinda; Rodelinda regina de' Longobardi; Ռոդելինդա; 로델린다; Роделинда; ロデリンダ; Роделінда; 羅德琳達; 罗德琳达; Rodelinda, a longobárdok királynője; Ροντελίντα
Name Aliases Роделинда, королева лангобардов; Rodelinda, regina de’ Longobardi
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 181676425; LCCN: no99038104; GND: 300065590; BNF: 139131230
Composer Handel, George Frideric
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. HWV 19
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IGH 430
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1725/01/20 (end date)
First Performance. 1725/02/13 in London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket
Francesca Cuzzoni (Rodelinda)
Francesco Bernardi, called "Senesino" (Bertarido)
Francesco Borosini (Grimoaldo)
Anna Vicenza Dotti (Eduige)
Andrea Pacini (Unulfo)
Giuseppe Maria Boschi (Garibaldo)
Librettist Nicola Francesco Haym (1678–1729)
after Antonio Salvi, 1710, from Pierre Corneille's "Pertharite, roi des Lombards" (1652)
Language Italian
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voices, orchestra
InstrDetail
Cast
Rodelinda (soprano)
Bertarido (alto-castrato)
Grimoaldo (tenor)
Eduige (alto)
Unulfo (alto-castrato)
Garibaldo (bass)

Orchestra

2 recorders, flute, 2 oboes, [bassoon]
2 horns, strings, continuo (cello, lute, harpsichord)
External Links Wikipedia article
Extra Information The 1725/12/18 revival included 4 new arias and new duet.
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