Larry Zazzo
speaker
193 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
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So you have that virtuosity of the Italian castrato and this wonderful simplicity of Susanna Kibber.
It is done by countertenors, but all of that music is equally done beautifully by mezzo-sopranos, I must say.
Once I was called subtle and my wife laughed.
But I have performed it many times.
It's such a unique piece.
And talking about its place in history and its place in Handel's career, I think going back to what Donald was saying and where Handel was when he was composing the Messiah,
If Handel had his druthers, I think, he was a man of the stage.
He loved operas.
And if he could have, if it could have found a way for it to be profitable, he would have continued happily, I think, writing operas.
Yeah, he was a spiritual man.
He was a devout.
He went to St.
George's Hanover every week, from what I understand.
However, it was simply a financial issue for him.
And the financial and the artistic are always very close for Handel.
And it simply was the case.
And if anyone's interested, Alan Harris has done some wonderful work with the Bank of England.
And she discovered that by 1739, Handel had withdrawn his last 50 pounds from his cash account.
and put no more money in his bank account until 1743.
He was subsidising his own opera seasons.
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