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Rinaldo
For the first time in modern times, the Festival della Valle d’Itria stages the Neapolitan version of Händel’s Rinaldo, a pastiche with a Mediterranean allure which Leonardo Leo assembled in 1718. After the huge success he got in London, the castrato singer Nicolo Grimaldi brought the opera score to Naples. Once in Italy, the opera was rehashed by Leo as well as other local composers, who adapted the opera to the taste of the local Neapolitan public of the time, and therefore added some intermezzos and amusing characters.
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