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 | Thomas Morell |
Premiered | 1757, March 11th (Covent Garden Theatre) in London, UK |
Type | Oratorio |
Catalogue | HWV 71 |
Spoken language | English |
Arrangement of | George Frideric Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, HWV 46b |
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4x Voice Chorus/Choir |
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Georg Friedrich Haendel: The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71 Georg Friedrich Händel: The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71 Georg Friedrich Händel: The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71 |