Sunday morning opera--Handel's Deidamia

¡Tunes Classical Radio is certainly delivering the goods this morning: Deidamia, the Master's last Italian opera in London, performed by Alan Curtis's Complesso Barocco, with singers Handel would have killed for. And, par surcroît, while just poking among the available criticism and background information on the Net, suddenly there popped up--ardently wished for, but all unbidden--the libretto to read along with it. So I'm in clover. Ma se ne avessi la partitura! O se ne potessi guardare una produzione teatricale ottocentista--con le alte piume ondeggianti sulle teste dei personaggi eroici....When I die perhaps, and go to Heaven.

But anyway, thinking that after all the copyright would have lapsed...just a little more Googling led me in fact to the very score--and I was able to read the words and music to the whole last act. Mirabile dictu! My god, the wonders of the age of the personal computer and the Internet!