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Handel Redux: A Mirror of Modern-day Culture |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: Peter Catalano |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,928 Words, 18,903 Characters |
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From his London redoubt in the 1720s and '30s, George Frideric Handel, today most remembered for his oratorios, composed and produced about thirty-five operas, all in Italian. Ultimately, his operas numbered about forty--an amazing legacy. In the realm of opera, however, Handel's fame was fleeting. His works in this genre were like unto Roman candles, one after another streaking to the heavens, glittering in a brief celestial display, only to be engulfed in darkness. Virtually overnight, his operas disappeared from the stage--for hundreds of years.
In the 1920s, a piecemeal revival began in Germany, his native land. Following World War II--and later, with the blooming of the early music movement in the 1970s--a small selection of his operas, much reworked, came into the repertoire of s...
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...forced Handel to turn from Italian opera seria to oratorio. Or it may be that two cultures--one reveling still in entrancing decadences and the other aiming toward dedication to high ideals--may vie for dominance. It is too early yet to tell.
In the meantime, the unspoken, implicit cultural subtext beneath the Handel opera phenomenon can be exhilarating, perplexing--and surely disturbing.
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