(+) Esther (1732 Haendel), oratorio

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Esther (1732) is an oratorio by Georg Frideric Haendel (mus.), and John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope (libr.).

Abstract

Based on Esther (1668 Racine), play. The work was born and first performed as a masque around 1718. In 1732, Haendel revised and expanded it as an oratorio.

Editions, performances, translations

Premeried in London [England]: Haymarket, 2 May 1733.

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