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Johanna Stojkovic (Emira), Sunhae Im (Laodice), Ann Hallenberg (Siroe), Gunther Schmid (Medarse), Sebastian Noack (King Cosroe), Timm de Jong (Arasse)
Capella Coloniensis, Andreas Spering
Handel's opera Siroe, rè di Persia was premiered at London's Haymarket Theatre on 17 February 1728. Not entirely by coincidence, in the year following George II's accession to the throne, it forms with Riccardo Primo, rè d'Inghilterra and Tolomeo a kind of triptych on royal subjects. But this was also the first time Handel had set a libretto by a young beginner, Pietro Antonio Trapassi, who would come to symbolise eighteenth-century Italian opera, and, under the name of Metastasio, wrote more than 27 librettos which inspired around 850 works by 260 composers.
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