Everything about Florindo totally explained
Der beglückte Florindo (HWV 3) is an
opera composed by
Handel and was ordered by
Reinhard Keiser, the manager of the Hamburg Opera at that time. The opera was performed in
Theater am Gänsemarkt and probably directed by
Christoph Graupner in 1708 after Handel had left for Italy. It is part of a double opera. The other part being
Die verwandelte Daphne. Keiser mixed up the opera with a play in low German, called
die lustige Hochzeit, afraid the audience would get tired otherwise. Handel wasn't pleased, as Romain Rolland suggests. Only fragments of the score survive, although one 1946 review from J.M. Coopersmith stated that a copy of the libretto from 1708 was in the
Library of Congress.
The libretto was by
Heinrich Hinsch, a lawyer, who also wrote the text for
Reinhard Keiser's first opera in Hamburg: Mahumet II (1696), based on the life of
Mehmet II. Hinsch had been written librettos since 1683. He died in 1712.
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