TRIONFO! ORATORIUM VON GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL
In the organizer's words:
IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO
Music by George Frideric Handel
Oratorio in two parts HWV 46a (1707)
Text by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj
It doesn't necessarily have to be "Messiah" at Christmas! The Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz continues its series of baroque concerts with a special treat under the direction of its new chief conductor: the very first oratorio from George Frideric Handel's pen.
Handel's ingenious early work is about the "triumph of time and knowledge": four allegorical figures debate the question of whether young beauty should indulge in pleasure or reflect on deeper values. The final moral, that human beings are not defined by the intoxication of fleeting pleasure, comes as no surprise, as the libretto was written by a Roman cardinal: In 1707, Benedetto Pamphilj provided the then 22-year-old Handel with material that would literally occupy the composer his entire life. He expanded his work in 1737 to "Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità" and reworked it again in 1757, already blind, as "The Triumph of Time and Truth", his last oratorio.
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