Chapter I: Operas

In chronological order, with the dates and places of the first performance.

(The figures in brackets refer to the number of the Volume in the Complete Edition of Handel's Works.)

1. _Almira_ (55) Hamburg, 1705. 2. _Nero_ (lost) " 1705. 3. _Florinda_ (lost) " about 1706. 4. _Daphne_ (lost) " about 1706. 5. _Roderigo_ (56) Florence, 1707. 6. _Agrippina_ (57) Venice, 1708. 7. _Rinaldo_ (58) London, 1711. 8. _Il Pastor Fido_ (59) " 1712. 9. _Teseo_ (60) " 1713. 10. _Silla_ (61). Never performed in public (probably privately performed at Canons). 11. _Amadigi_ (62) London, 1715. 12. _Radamisto_ (63) " 1720. (There are three versions.) 13. _Muzio Scaevola_ (64) " 1721. 14. _Floridante_ (65) " 1721. 15. _Ottone_ (66) " 1723. 16. _Flavio_ (67) " 1723. 17. _Giulio Cesare_ (68) " 1724. 18. _Tamerlano_ (69) " 1724. 19. _Rodelinda_ (70) London, 1725. 20. _Scipione_ (71) " 1726. 21. _Alessandro_ (72) " 1726. 22. _Admeto_ (73) " 1727. 23. _Riccardo Primo, Re d'Inghilterra_ " 1727. 24. _Siroe_ (75) " 1728. 25. _Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto_ (76) " 1728. 26. _Lotario_ (77) " 1729. 27. _Partenope_ (78) " 1730. 28. _Rinaldo_ (new version) (58) " 1731. 29. _Poro_ (79) " 1731. 30. _Ezio_ (80) " 1732. 31. _Sosarme_ (81) " 1732. 32. _Orlando_ (82) " 1733. 33. _Arianna_ (83) " 1734. 34. _Terpsichore_ (84) 35. _Ariodante_ (85) " 1735. 36. _Alcina_ (86) " 1735. 37. _Atalanta_ (87) " 1736. 38. _Giustino_ (88) " 1737. 39. _Arminio_ (89) " 1737. 40. _Berenice_ (90) " 1737. 41. _Faramondo_ (91) " 1738. 42. _Serse_ (92) " 1738. 43. _Imeneo_ (93) " 1740. 44. _Deidamia_ (94) " 1741. 45. _Jupiter in Argos_ (MS. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Advertised but never performed), 1739. 46. _Tito._ Unperformed and unpublished. 47. _Alfonso Imo._ Unperformed and unpublished. 48. _Flavio Olibrio._ Unperformed and unpublished. 49. _Honorius._ Unperformed and unpublished. 50. An unnamed opera (MS. Fitzwilliam Museum). 51. Eleven Pasticcios, arranged at various times between 1730 and 1747.