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Handel wrote Scipione at the height of his success with his first opera company in London in 1726, after the three acclaimed masterpieces Giulio Cesare, Tamerlano, and Rodelinda. The piece has not re-established a place in the repertoire following the revival of interest in this composer’s operatic output in recent decades however, and has remained obscure, except for the brief …

London Handel Festival – Scipione with James Laing, Mhairi Lawson & Catherine Carby – Early Opera Company/Christian Curnyn Read More »