... he did not change librettists). Handel's operas comprise, structurally, a series of mostly static scenes in which intense feelings (ambition, lust, hope, fear, doubt, pain, remorse, etc.) are expressed. The happy‐ending convention in opera seria renders plot resolution secondary. Handel's operas...

... anniversaries. Of special interest is the author’s chapter entitled “Recycling and Russifying Seria,” in which she discusses the fate of “serious,” historical Italian operas (opera seria) on the Rus- sian soil. Naroditskaya argues that they not only functioned “as a decoration for the Russian crown...