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Max Emanuel Cencic

Arminio

Soprano

Sandrine Piau

Tusnelda

Vince Yi

Sigismondo

Ruxandra Donose

Ramise

Conductor

George Petrou

Tenor

Vassilis Kavayas

Varo

Owen Willetts

Tullio

Bass

Pavel Kudinov

Segeste

MusikTheater an der Wien

Italian

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

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The 1736/37 season was extremely busy for Handel, and his own opera company in Covent Garden felt the bitter competition of the Opera of the Nobility in the King's Theater. Handel wanted to counteract this with as many new productions as possible and composed three new operas between August 1736 and January 1737: Giustino , Arminio and Berenice . The effort was in vain, his company went bankrupt at the end of the season, and Handel suffered a collapse in health. What may have given him satisfaction, however, was that the Opera of the Nobility was bankrupt at the same time. Albeit ArminioBack then, because Italian operas had gone out of fashion in London, Handel's brilliant composition has a lot to offer today's Handel lovers: the composer used a libretto that had already been set to music many times before, but he left it to renew interest in Italian opera tightened the text and modified the strict form of the opera seria, he worked with duets and created unusual variants of the usual da capo arias. Against the background of the Varus Battle (9 AD), in which the Teutons under the leadership of the Cheruscan prince Arminius (Hermann) weakened the Romans and stopped the Roman conquests in Germania, the opera shows the private entanglements - love, desire, loyalty, Generational conflicts - that take place within Arminius' family,

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