L' Ombra di Iside

Premiered at the King's Theatre, London during May 1739, this is not a familiar Handel opera, although its music certainly will be. It is a pasticcio opera cobbled together by Handel using an existing libretto and music he plundered from the little known Francesco Araja (c1709-1770).
The plot of Giove in Argo is a mix of mistaken identities and complicated relationships, featuring mortals, gods and kings. The music is beautiful and performed by a cast that includes - Tanya Aspelmeir, Lisa Tjalve and Benoit Haller. The period instrument band, Concert Royal Koln and Kammerchor Wurzburg are directed by Sylvie Kraus and Matthias Beckert.

Handel's Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos) is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, a pastiche (or, in the parlance of the time, pasticcio) of numbers from earlier operas stitched together into a mythological-pastoral plot that is absurd even by the standards of Baroque opera. It is a notable sign of the success of the Baroque opera revival that this has appeared on a semi-major label, Virgin Classics. The pieces were all from operas that were fairly recent at the time, and it's possible that the work was intended as a kind of greatest-hits reprise, but London audiences did not bite; the opera was long thought to be lost, and it had its modern premiere only in 2006, with newly written recitatives.

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