Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alessandro (Alexander the Great, HWV 21) is an opera written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726. Paolo Rolli was the librettist and based the story on Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro. This was the first opera where Handel had cast together in the same opera the famous singers Faustina Bordoni, as Rossane, and Francesca Cuzzoni, as Lisaura. Handel made use of their real-life professional rivalry in his treatment of the story.. }
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- Alessandro_(opera) comment "Alessandro (Alexander the Great, HWV 21) is an opera written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726. Paolo Rolli was the librettist and based the story on Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro. This was the first opera where Handel had cast together in the same opera the famous singers Faustina Bordoni, as Rossane, and Francesca Cuzzoni, as Lisaura. Handel made use of their real-life professional rivalry in his treatment of the story.".