Score of Händel's Siroe
Chrysander | Edition 1878 | 118 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 22 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1878 | 118 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 22 MB
Siroe, re di Persia (or 'Siroes, King of Persia') is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Metastasio's Siroe. Like all of Metastasio's libretti, it was also set by Handel's contemporaries, ex. Leonardo Vinci, Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Adolf Hasse.
It was Handel's 12th opera for the Royal Academy of Music. It was written for the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.