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Handel's 12th full-length opera received 18 performances in a run that began at the King's Theatre, Haymarket on February 17, 1728. In order to whip up public demand, the composer cast London's rival Italian sopranos Cuzzoni and Bordoni in the leading female roles and engaged the famous ...