Tolomeo, Re dEgitto HWV 25
Dramma per musica in three Acts
by George Frideric Handel
Bassoon - Sheet Music

2 soprano voice solos, mezzo-soprano voice solo, alto voice solo, bass voice solo, piano (2 Soprano Voice Solo, Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo, Alto Voice Solo, Bass Voice Solo, 2 recorder-A, Fl, 2 Ob, bassoon, 2 Hn, Str, Continuo)

SKU: BA.BA04058-90

Dramma per musica in three Acts. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Arranged by Michael Pacholke. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Barenreiter Urtext. Vocal Score. HWV 25. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04058-90. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04058-90).

ISBN 9790006499328. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: Italian. Translation: Michael Pacholke. Nicola Francesco Haym.

Tolomeowas Handel's last opera for the Royal Academy of Music in London . Composed between March and 19 April 1728, it was premiered on 30 April. Handel revived the opera several times further: in 1730 in an extensive revision, with seven performances, and in 1733 with four performances.
The historical background is the dispute between Cleopatra III and her younger son Ptolemaio X Alexander I ( Tolomeo ). In 110 BC Cleopatra drove Tolomeo out of Egypt . She died, irreconciled to him, in 101 BC.

The new vocal score is based on the"Halle Handel Edition"(vol. II/20), published in 2000. The main part contains the version from the premiere. The extensive appendix also enables later versions to be performed.