NEW RELEASE: HANDEL IN THE PLAYHOUSE

'A fascinating insight into Handel and the English ballad opera tradition. L'Avventura show excellent musicianship...'--Gramophone

Handel CD As today, the timeless melodies of George Frideric Handel were also favourites of eighteenth-century music-lovers in Britain. His melodies were appropriated and used extensively in ballad opera, a very successful type of early English musical theatre. In order to create ballad operas, authors combined comic plays and preexisting ‘Airs’ to which they would fit new words in English. Handel’s Italian opera and instrumental melodies were among those most frequently selected for this purpose, helping him to become Britain’s favourite composer.

OLD INSTRUMENTS,
NEW MUSICAL ADVENTURES

'the band is excellent'--Early Music Review

L'Avventura London is a period-instrument ensemble dedicated to the exploration of Western musical repertoire from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Through a combination of brilliant virtuosity, passion, unbridled dramaticism, and an extensive knowledge of historical performance practice and its repertoire, L’Avventura London seeks to bring the joy of a new musical adventure to its rapidly growing audiences.
L'Avventura's is pleased to announce its new appointment as Ensemble in Association at the Foundling Museum in London beginning in 2011.

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