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
Instruments Orchestra
4x Voice
Chorus/Choir
Links
Autotranslations beta 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