Handel wrote 49 operas in the Italian style, including Julius Caesar, Xerxes, Rodelinda and many others before turning to writing oratorios in English such as Solomon, Israel in Egypt, and The Messiah.
Italy was greatly affected by the Renaissance, and they were probably the ones who had a great interest in operas in the first place. Italian is also a classic language for artistic performances, as many people in opera have to learn Italian and German because many of them were written in more classic languages than English. Also, Italians like pasta and lots of it, and you need to exercise your diaphragm to belt out many of those poweful notes in Italian arias.
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Handel wrote very much music in all forms of his time. He wrote Italian operas, English oratorios, cantatas, orchestral suites, concertos, chamber music, and music for solo keyboards. In short, he wrote vocal and instrumental music of all kinds.
He never wrote an opera.
Operas are typically performed in the language that the composer wrote the opera in, such as Italian, German, French, or English. Some composers also wrote operas in their native language, like Russian or Czech. Additionally, there are operas that incorporate multiple languages within the same production.
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
Perhaps Verdi is most well known for his Italian operas. He mainly wrote vocal music: 28 operas and Manzoni's Requiem. Finally, he also wrote chamber music.
The language spoken by the person who wrote it. Not always. Mozart, a German-speaking Austrian, wrote Italian operas, t'was the fashion in those days.
"Dafne" was written by the Italian composer Jacopo Peri in 1597. It is considered one of the earliest operas ever composed.
Verdi wrote 28 operas
Handel wrote 49 operas in the Italian style, including Julius Caesar, Xerxes, Rodelinda and many others before turning to writing oratorios in English such as Solomon, Israel in Egypt, and The Messiah.
Italy was greatly affected by the Renaissance, and they were probably the ones who had a great interest in operas in the first place. Italian is also a classic language for artistic performances, as many people in opera have to learn Italian and German because many of them were written in more classic languages than English. Also, Italians like pasta and lots of it, and you need to exercise your diaphragm to belt out many of those poweful notes in Italian arias.
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Giuseppe Verdi.
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Austrian composer Wenzel Müller composed the most operas, writing around 166 of them.