Original id:
8881
Start date:
1 January 1984
Production notes:
This music, composed in 1750 for the lost masque by the novelist Tobias Smollett, was Handel's second engagement with the myth (Macintosh, Cahiers du GITA, no.14, 2001, p.284). This performance was given in the form of an 'English masque'.
Media of production:
Opera, musical and related genres