As with all Baroque opera seria, Arianna in Creta went unperformed for many years, but with the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically informed musical performance since the 1960s,Arianna in Creta, like all Handel operas, receives performances at festivals and opera houses today. Among other performances, Arianna in Creta was staged by Gotham Chamber Opera in 2005 and by the London Handel Festival in 2014.

Librettist Francis Colman (from Pietro Pariati's "Arianna e Teseo")
Date of composition 1734 (1733-1734)
Premiered 1734, January 26th (King's Theatre in Haymarket) in London, UK
Type Opera Seria
Catalogue HWV 32
Spoken language Italian
Instruments Voice (Soprano) - Arianna
Voice (Castrato) - Teseo
Voice (Castrato) - Alceste
Voice (Contralto) - Carilda
Voice (Contralto) - Tauride
Voice (Bass) - Minos
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Autotranslations beta Georg Friedrich Haendel: Arianna in Creta, HWV 32
Georg Friedrich Händel: Arianna in Creta, HWV 32
Georg Friedrich Händel: Arianna in Creta, HWV 32