Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel se

Thomas McGeary's book explores the relationship between Italian opera and British partisan politics in the era of George Frideric Handel.

In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II