Almira | |
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Opera by George Frideric Handel | |
Librettist | Friedrich Christian Feustking |
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Based on | libretto by Giulio Pancheri |
Premiere | 8 January 1705 Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg |
Almira, Königin von Castilien ("Almira, Queen of Castile", HWV 1; full title: Der in Krohnen erlangte Glücks-Wechsel, oder: Almira, Königin von Castilien) is Handel's first opera, composed when he was 19 years old. It was first performed in Hamburg in January 1705.