Music Of The Great Composers --

Georg Friedrich Handel-Part 7 Handel's Earliest Opera Within little more than a week after the termination of this quarrel Handel presented to the world his own opera - the first - Almira, the role of the tenor being performed by Mattheson. The German opera of this period, though based upon Italian models, had shown signs of a certain individuality. Italian opera owed its origin to a series of reunions instituted by enthusiastic music lovers at the house of Giovanne..