Contains:
Heritage: Handel's Italian journey as a European experience ; Alessandro Scarlatti and the eighteenth century ; Handel and his Italian opera texts ; Francesco Gasparini's later operas and Handel -- Operatic practice: Towards an understanding of the opera seria ; An opera autograph of Francesco Gasparini? ; Vivaldi's career as an opera producer ; Handel's pasticci -- Answers to the past: Leonardo Vinci's Didone abbandonata (Rome 1726) ; Handel's Ezio ; Metastasio's Alessandro nell'Indie and its earliest settings ; Comic traditions in Handel's Orlando