Christopher Sokolowski

Handel composed his first Italian oratorio 'La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno' in 1707. It is based on an allegorical moral libretto written by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili w...

The episode from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo's advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, h...

Handel composed his first Italian oratorio "La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" in 1707, based on an allegorical and moralistic libretto by his patron Cardinal Benedetto Pamp...

The episode from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo's advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, h...