"Occasional attempts at revival, although revealing untold glories to musicians of sober and patient tastes, have only shown that there is no hope of ever restoring these works to a stage which no longer resorts to extravagant sumptuousness of production for its own sake, nor has any use for the stiff formality of endless successions of da capo arias."Handel's fortune really was at its nadir when his supporters, not his detractors, spoke in this way.
from James Fenton: The Guardian: Past notes
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