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2023 TFA blurb
Of the four operas written by the youthful composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) between 1703 and 1706 when he lived in the German city of Hamburg, only the first, Almira, has survived complete. The music for the others is lost apart from a few orchestral fragments. He was able to get Almira and a second opera, Nero, performed at Oper am Gänsemarkt, the opera house, during the temporary absence of the theatre's director, Reinhard Keiser. Almira was more successful than Nero. Handel's last two Hamburg operas, Florindo and Daphne, were not produced before Handel left Hamburg. No music that can be definitively traced to Nero has been identified, although some of it may have been used in later works, particularly Agrippina, which has a similar plot and characters. Fragments of music from Florindo and Daphne have been preserved without the vocal parts, and some of these elements have been incorporated into an orchestral suite first recorded in 2012.

This one ran at TFA in 2016, but needed some trimming. Edits and comments are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 18:51, 17 July 2023 (UTC)