Handel's Operas 1726-1741

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Handel's Operas 1726-1741. By Winton Dean. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2006. [xx, 565 p. ISBN-10 1843832682; ISBN-13 9781843832683. $85.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, indexes.

This volume concludes a project begun collaboratively by Winton Dean and John Merrill Knapp (Handel's Operas 1704-1726 [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987]). (Dean and Knapp had parted ways even before the publication of their work, and Knapp's attempt at a second volume was left incomplete at his death in 1993; his unfinished typescript, however, has been made available to selected research libraries by the American Handel Society.) With the publication of his own second volume, …