Handel’s very first oratorio, composed in spring 1707, to an Italian-language libretto by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. Time and Disillusion are personified (thus spelled with an initial capital even in Italian). Comprising two sections, the oratorio was premiered that summer in Rome. One of its famous arias is Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa (Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose), later recast as Lascia ch’io pianga (Leave Me to Weep) in the opera Rinaldo.
Librettist | Benedetto Pamphili |
Date of composition | 1737 |
Premiered | 1737, March 23rd in London, UK |
Type | Oratorio |
Catalogue | HWV 46b |
Spoken language | Italian |
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Voice (Castrato) Voice (Soprano) Voice (Tenor) Voice (Contralto) |
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George Frideric Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71
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Autotranslations beta |
Georg Friedrich Haendel: Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, HWV 46b Georg Friedrich Händel: Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, HWV 46b Georg Friedrich Händel: Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, HWV 46b |