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and reorganized material as each production was being prepared.

The first act begins with the well-known aria "Ombra mai fu" ("There was never a shadow"). According to Martha Novak Clinkscale, Handel's later, more famous setting "is neither more poignant nor mellifluous than Cavalli's".

Roles

Editions

Martha Novak Clinkscale included a modern transcription of the full score in the second volume of her Ph.D. thesis ("Pier Francesco Cavalli's

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