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English audiences took to his 1711 opera Rinaldo, and several years later Handel moved to England permanently. He impressed King George early on with the Water Music of 1716, written as entertainment ...
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Aci by the River, London Handel Festival: this voyage up the Thames is exactly what opera needsW hen Handel famously launched his Water Music on the Thames for King George I in 1717, the music and the boats went from Whitehall to Chelsea and back again. Some 307 years later, we set off in ...
In London, kings and noblemen also feasted to his music, sometimes while being ferried downstream to the theatre. This was the watery “Handel experience” that director Jack Furness and his ...
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