15 Facts About Flavio

1.

Flavio, re de' Longobardi is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.

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2.

Flavio is unusually concise for an opera by Handel of this period.

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3.

Flavio is greatly struck by her beauty and suggests she become lady-in-waiting to the Queen .

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4.

King Flavio receives word that his governor in Britain has become incapacitated through illness and needs to be replaced.

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5.

Flavio praises the beauty of Teodata to his courtier Vitige, whom the King does not realise is Teodata's secret lover.

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6.

Flavio has ordered the lovely Teodata to come to him and is working on seducing her when her father bursts into the room, protesting about the loss of his honour.

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7.

Flavio tells Guido what her father is asking her to do, but says she will never cease to love Guido.

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8.

Flavio says he will consider the matter; really he is more concerned at the moment with trying to seduce Teodata.

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9.

Vitige brings Teodata to the King and has to listen as Flavio declares she will be his real Queen, which makes him enraged with jealousy.

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10.

Flavio takes the sword but is unable to kill him and leaves.

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11.

Flavio comes out of his hiding place, declares they have both deceived him and they will be punished.

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12.

Flavio now realises that he will have to show wise judgement like a good King.

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13.

Flavio sends for Emilia and tells her that he has followed her desire; he has had Guido decapitated for killing her father and in fact she can see the severed head right away.

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14.

Flavio sends for Vitige and tells him that his punishment will be that he will have to marry the girl who he does not think is nice to look at, Teodata, and presents her to him.

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15.

Flavio, following Ottone in the same year and with the same leading singers, did not create such a sensation as Ottone had, although it was successful enough with audiences to be revived by Handel in a subsequent season.

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