She also recorded music for the musical Carmen Jones, based on the Bizet opera ; as well as operetta ( Johan Strauss II's Der Zigeunerbaron ), oratorio ( Handel's Israel in Egypt and Judas Maccabeus ), and an album of pop songs.

He also gave performances of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, Gounod's Gallia, and Massenet's Eve.

Having performed in the major opera houses and with the greatest symphony orchestras of the world, she has left a legacy of recordings, including: Handel's Judas Maccabeus ( twice ) and Samson, Mozart's Don Giovanni ( Donna Elvira for Karl Böhm and Donna Anna for Sir Colin Davis ), Beethoven's Missa solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Rossini's

In 1648 there appeared the play Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet by Jean Magnon, and in 1725 Handel's Tamerlano was first performed and published in London ; Vivaldi's version of the story, Bajazet, was written in 1735.

Handel and his father travelled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel's half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian, who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I. Handel and the duke convinced his father to allow him to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of Halle's Marienkirche.

Later in life, he was known to cross himself in veneration when speaking of Handel's skill.

They also sang the alto parts in Handel's choruses, and it was as choral singers within the Anglican church tradition ( as well as in the secular genre of the glee ) that countertenors survived throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1734, George Frederic Handel's opera L ' Oreste ( based on Giangualberto Barlocci ’ s Roman libretto of 1723 ), was premiered in London's Covent Garden.

Handel's imitators included the Italian Lidarti who was employed by the Amsterdam Jewish community to compose a Hebrew version of Esther.

In 1734, George Frederic Handel's opera L ' Oreste ( based on Giangualberto Barlocci ’ s Roman libretto of 1723 ), was premiered in London's Covent Garden.

A thanksgiving service was held at St Paul's Cathedral which saw the first performance of George Frideric Handel's " The Conquering Hero ", composed especially for Cumberland.

By 1741, Handel's pre-eminence in British music was evident from the honours he had accumulated, including: a pension from the court of King George II, the office of Composer of Musick for the Chapel Royal and — most unusually for a living person — a statue erected in his honour, in Vauxhall Gardens.

Because Handel's main creative concern was still with opera, he did not write the music for Saul until 1738, in preparation for his 1738 – 39 theatrical season.

He was certainly devoted to Handel's music, having helped to finance the publication of every Handel score since Rodelinda in 1725.

Handel's instrumentation in the score is often imprecise, again in line with contemporary convention, where the use of certain instruments and combinations was assumed and did not need to be written down by the composer ; later copyists would fill in the details.

The first published score of Messiah was issued in 1767, eight years after Handel's death, though this was based on relatively early manuscripts and included none of Handel's later revisions.

A violinist friend of Handel's, Matthew Dubourg, was in Dublin as the Lord Lieutenant's bandmaster ; he would look after the tour's orchestral requirements.

He organised a second performance of Messiah on 3 June, which was announced as " the last Performance of Mr Handel's during his Stay in this Kingdom ".

In this second Messiah, which was for Handel's private benefit, Cibber reprised her role from the first performance, though Avoglio may have been replaced by a Mrs Maclaine ; details of other performers are not recorded.

In continental Europe, performances of Messiah were departing from Handel's practices in a different way: his score was being drastically reorchestrated to suit contemporary tastes.

At the end of the century, Sir Frederick Bridge and T. W. Bourne pioneered revivals of Messiah in Handel's orchestration, and Bourne's work was the basis for further scholarly versions in the early 20th century.

Although the huge-scale oratorio tradition was perpetuated by such large ensembles as the Royal Choral Society, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Huddersfield Choral Society in the 20th century, there were increasingly calls for performances more faithful to Handel's conception.

Prout continued the practice of adding flutes, clarinets and trombones to Handel's orchestration, but he restored Handel's high trumpet parts, which Mozart had omitted ( evidently because playing them was a lost art by 1789 ).

The opening aria, " Ombra mai fu ", sung by Xerxes to a tree ( Platanus orientalis ), is set to one of Handel's best-known melodies, and is often played in an orchestral arrangement, known as Handel's " largo " ( despite being marked " larghetto " in the score ).

Handel's " Water Music ", although it was composed more than thirty years earlier, is often paired with the " Music for the Royal Fireworks " as both were written for outdoor performance.

" Brahms might well have known that large and often admirable work, published as recently as 1856, which Volkmann based on the so-called ' Harmonious Blacksmith ' theme from the Air with Variations in Handel's E major Harpsichord Suite.

A Scratch Messiah, People's Messiah, Come Sing Messiah, Sing-it-yourself Messiah, or Sing along Messiah ( the first two British and Australian usage, the last two common in North America ) is an informal performance of Handel's Messiah in which the audience serves as the unrehearsed chorus, often supported by a carefully prepared core group.

* April 13 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio The Messiah is first performed in Dublin, Ireland.

An authentic performance was thought impossible: The Musical Times correspondent wrote, " Handel's orchestral instruments were all ( excepting the trumpet ) of a coarser quality than those at present in use ; his harpsichords are gone for ever … the places in which he performed the ' Messiah ' were mere drawing-rooms when compared with the Albert Hall, the Queen's Hall and the Crystal Palace.

In London the previous year, Senesino, a singer who had been a part of Handel's " Second Academy " which performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, quarrelled with Handel and established a rival company, the Opera of the Nobility, operating from a theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Her first opportunity to present a piece came in October 1872, when she performed " Angels, ever bright and fair " from Handel's Theodora at the Norwich Festival.

Handel's Messiah was performed at the opening of the stadium.

** Mervyn E. Warren ( producer ) for Handel's Messiah-A Soulful Celebration performed by various artists

In 1984, she sang the title role of Handel's opera seria Rinaldo ( directed by Frank Corsaro ), the first Handel opera ever performed at the Met.

During Handel's lifetime, Rinaldo was the most frequently performed of all the composer's musical dramas.

In December, 2002, the KKB performed Handel's Coronation Anthems and the Chichester Psalms, choreographed by Parwin Hadinia in the Theater Basel, for its 75th birthday.

In January, 2008, Handel's Messiah was performed with the Berner Freitagsakademie in the original English with great success ; in March, there followed a concert tour through Hungary with four more Messiah concerts, one of which took place in Matthias Church in Budapest.

She also performed the title role in Handel's Alcina with Les Arts Florissants and conductor William Christie and with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Concerned about the waning popularity and literary flaws of Handel's works, he launched a campaign through his own oratorio The Cure of Saul, performed at Covent Garden Theatre, and the publication of A Dissertation on Poetry and Music, and he almost certainly produced the first monograph of oratorio criticism, An Examination of the Oratorios which have been performed this Season, at Covent-Garden Theatre ( 1763 ).

* March 17 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Solomon first performed, at the Theatre Royal in London.

For all its Enlightenment sophistication in fields such as architecture and music ( Handel's " Messiah " was first performed there in Fishamble street ), 18th century Dublin remained decidedly rough around the edges.

Handel's Fireworks Music, performed at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND ' S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749.

* July 17 – George Frideric Handel's " Water Music " is performed on the River Thames.

Then the Stoughton singers performed Handel's majestic Hallelujah Chorus from his oratorio, Messiah.

He performed the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare in a Royal Danish Opera production in 2002 and 2005 ), reprised in Paris ( 2007 ) and Lausanne ( 2008 ).

In 2008 he performed the role of Arsace in Handel's Partenope for the Royal Danish Opera.

In 2001, Scholl sang in Handel's Saul in Brussels and performed the title role in Handel's Solomon, conducted by Paul McCreesh.