The first music by Handel heard in London may have been Agrippina's " Non hò che ", transposed into Alessandro Scarlatti's opera Pirro è Dimitrio which was performed in London on 6 December 1710.

Germanicus, Agrippina's father, was a very popular general and politician.

Claudius was Agrippina's paternal uncle and third husband.

This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.

Nero was Agrippina's only natural child.

Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.

Her property was confiscated, she left Italy and on Agrippina's orders, she committed suicide.

In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.

Additionally, Suetonius reveals that Poppaea's husband, Otho, was not sent away by Nero until after Agrippina's death in 59, making it highly unlikely that already married Poppaea would be pressing Nero.

Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.

After Agrippina's death, Nero viewed her corpse and commented how beautiful she was, according to some.

During the remainder of Nero's reign, Agrippina's grave was not covered or enclosed.

The inheritance of Nero, Agrippina's son and the future emperor, was seized by Caligula.

Agrippina's father, Germanicus, was a grandson of Augustus's wife, Livia, on one side and to Mark Antony and Octavia on the other.

Messalina realised that Agrippina's son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Nero ) was a threat to her son's position and sent assassins to strangle Nero during his siesta.

The climate was further poisoned by the hatred that Tiberius ' mother Livia Drusilla felt for her, since Agrippina's ambition, to be the mother of emperors and thus Rome's first woman, was an open secret.

Among those who perished were Gaius Asinius Gallus, a prominent senator and opponent of Tiberius who was linked to Agrippina's faction.

1st century ), probably the son of the conqueror of Britain, and allegedly the lover of Agrippina the younger, who was murdered by Agrippina's son Nero.

Additionally, Suetonius mentions how Poppaea's husband, Otho, was not sent away until after Agrippina's death, which makes it very unlikely that an already married woman would be pressing Nero to marry her.

Agrippina's youngest daughter, Julia Livilla was also exiled to Pandateria twice: the first time by her brother Caligula for plotting to depose him and the next time by her uncle, the emperor Claudius, at the instigation of his wife, Messalina, in 41 AD.

Tacitus reported that Paulina was forced to commit suicide under the watch of a colonel of the Guards, and implied that this was done under Agrippina's orders.

Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.

Agrippina's increasing efforts to separate Nero from Acte served only to increase his fondness for her ; and the ensuing conflicts led Nero to take absolute control of the Empire and, eventually, to order his mother's assassination.

The circumstances that surround Agrippina's death are uncertain due to historical contradictions and anti-Nero bias.

All surviving stories of Agrippina's death contradict themselves and each other, and are generally fantastical.

In 59 they had reluctantly agreed to Agrippina's murder, and afterward, we are told by Tacitus that Seneca wrote a dishonest exculpation of Nero to the Senate.

For the 1848 London run of Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer transposed the role of the page " Urbain " ' from soprano to contralto and composed the aria " Non!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was by far the most notable composer for the basset horn, including three basset horns in the Maurerische Trauermusik ( Masonic Funeral Music ), K. 477, and two in both the Gran Partita, K. 361, and the Requiem, K. 626, and several of his operas, like Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Clemenza di Tito which features Vitellia's great aria " Non più di fiori " with basset-horn obbligato, and Die Zauberflöte, where they prominently accompany the March of the Priests, as well as chamber works.

Notable examples include the aria " Non Più Andrai " from the opera The Marriage of Figaro, the andante movement from Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, K331 ( best known for the third movement, the Rondo alla turca ), the Posthorn Serenade, K320 and a Rondo in D, K382.

" – " Non mi dir, bell idol mio ," recitative and aria for Donna Anna from Don Giovanni

Just to illustrate the popularity of the Harmoniemusik at this time: At the banquet in the finale of " Don Giovanni ", Mozart has a " Harmonie " perform parts from Una cosa Rara by Vicente Martín y Soler, I due litiganti by Giuseppe Sarti and the aria Non piu andrai from his own The Marriage of Figaro.

The aria Non lo dirò col labbro was adapted by Arthur Somervell ( 1863 – 1937 ) as the popular classic ' Silent Worship ', 1928 ; its use in the 1996 film of Jane Austen's Emma may effectively capture an atmosphere of home entertainment, although this English drawing-room version of the song was created more than a century after the action of Jane Austen's novel.

*" Berenice, ove sei … Ombra che pallida " ( recitatve and aria for Apostolo Zeno's Lucio vero )

Sometimes a composition which is simple and songlike is designated as a canzone, especially if it is by a non-Italian ; a good example is the aria " Voi che sapete " from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.

Advising the impresario of the Lyrique that more time was needed, he took the opportunity to revise the entire opera, in particular by adding music for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Acts 1 and 3 ; the addition of a ballet in Act 3 ; and changing the endings of Acts 3 and 4, in the latter case by dropping Macbeth's aria Mal per me che m ' affidai-" Trusting in the prophecies of Hell " and adding the triumphal choral ending.

***" Ma che vi fece, o stelle " – " Sperai vicino il lido ," K. 368, recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra

* L ' aria che tira, business program hosted by Myrta Merlino ;

Among the authors of the songs on the album appear that Mario Biondi and signature Se e L ' aria che respiro, the latter a duet sung by Tatangelo and published on 1 April as the second single, and Renato Zero, who wrote the song dedicated to the artist, Anna.

The Pisani's were a prominent Lucca family and Haliday a frequent visitor to " Campagna bella e chiamate di Tuscanys a Firenze, a Lucca, a Pisa ed al Cinque Terre che la campagna della Toscana allunga dall ' aria croccante e libera del Apennines ad alcune delle linee costiere più belle dell ' Italia.

In Edipo Re ( a short one act work ) the composer uses exactly the same melody for the final scene " Miei poveri fior, per voi non più sole ..." ( with the blinded Edipo ) as he had for the act 4 soprano aria from Der Roland von Berlin.

In the sense of " sounding together ," the word begins to appear in the titles of some works by 16th-and 17th-century composers including Giovanni Gabrieli's Sacrae symphoniae, and Symphoniae sacrae, liber secundus, published in 1597 and 1615, respectively ; Adriano Banchieri's Eclesiastiche sinfonie, dette canzoni in aria francese, per sonare, et cantare, op.

While not performed as regularly as Donizetti's more popular operas, Lucrezia's aria " Com ' è bello ", Orsino's Brindisi " Il segreto per esser felice ", the tenor's " Di pescator ignobile ", and the bass aria " Vieni, la mia vendetta!

Manuel García, for instance, who had a wide range as a baritenor, " had L ' italiana in Algeri in his repertoire, but faced with the extremely high tessitura and the mainly syllabic writing of ‘ Languir per una bella ’, he transposed the aria down a minor third, performing it in c major instead of e flat ".