Hercules
Author: first_name: Thomas
last_name: Broughton
first_name: Georg Friedrich
last_name: Händel
Language: English
Year: 1745

Hercules is an English Oratorio composed by Georg Friedrich Händel to a libretto by the Reverend Thomas Broughton. It was first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 5th of January 1745.
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It is based on the story of Hercules and Deianira, as it is related by Ovid, in the Ninth Book of his Metamorpheses; and the same subject, as it is treated by Sophocles, in his tragedy The Trachinians.
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(Summary by Alan Mapstone and the Librettist)
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Cast List
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Herc