Arianna in Creta

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Operas by George Frideric Handel
Almira (1705) Florindo (1708) Rodrigo (1707) Agrippina (1709) Rinaldo (1711) Il pastor fido (1712) Teseo (1713) Amadigi di Gaula (1715) Acis and Galatea (1718) Radamisto (1720) Muzio Scevola (1721) Floridante (1721) Ottone (1723) Flavio (1723) Giulio Cesare (1724) Tamerlano (1724) Rodelinda (1725) Scipione (1726) Alessandro (1726) Admeto (1727) Riccardo Primo (1727) Siroe (1728) Tolomeo (1728) Lotario (1729) Partenope (1730) Poro (1731) Ezio (1732) Sosarme (1732) Orlando (1733) Arianna in Creta (1734) Oreste (1734) Ariodante (1735) Alcina (1735) Atalanta (1736) Arminio (1737) Giustino (1737) Berenice (1737) Alessandro Severo (1738) Faramondo (1738) Serse (1738) Giove in Argo (1739) Imeneo (1740) Deidamia (1741) Semele (1744)
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Arianna in Creta (Ariadne in Crete) (HWV 32) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Pietro Pariati's Arianna e Teseo.

[edit] Performance history

The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 26 January 1734.

[edit] Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, January 26, 1734 (Conductor: - )
Arianna	soprano	Anna Maria Strada
Teseo	alto castrato	Giovanni Carestini
Carilda	alto	Maria Caterina Negri
Alceste	soprano castrato	Carlo Scalzi
Tauride	soprano	Margherita Durastanti
Minos	bass	Gustavus Waltz

[edit] References

• Dean, Winton (2006), Handel's Operas, 1726-1741, Boydell Press, ISBN 1843832682  The second of the two volume definitive reference on the operas of Handel