Handel - Tolomeo
Score of Händel's Tolomeo
Chrysander | Edition 1875 | 110 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 20 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1875 | 110 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 20 MB
Tolomeo, re di Egitto (Ptolemy, King of Egypt) (HWV 25) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's Tolomeo et Alessandro.
It was Handel's 13th and last opera for the Royal Academy of Music. It was first performed at the King's Theatre, London on 30 April 1728 and revived with revisions on 19 May 1730 and 2 January 1733. The first modern production was by Fritz Lehmann at Göttingen on 19 June 1938.