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Handel’s Scipione: the Early Opera Company close the London Handel Festival with a celebration of clemency

3 years ago
Claire Seymour

This year’s London Handel Festival was brought to a gracious close with a celebration of clemency, magnanimity and honour.  Scipione, the ninth of the operas that Handel composed for the…

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Blow’s Venus and Adonis: the Early Opera Company at St John’s Smith Square

4 years ago
Claire Seymour

Probably first performed at the London or Windsor court in 1683, John Blow’s Venus and Adonis is a thinly veiled political satire on the amorous appetites of Charles II and…

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