Bononcini
Americannoun
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Opera Feroce will present a semi-staged production of “Magdalene’s Dilemma,” a morality musical based on oratorios by Bononcini.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2014
Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting for audiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
I have taken my little thread satin beauty into the house with me; she is allowed by Bononcini to have the finest voice he ever heard in England.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Melville, Lewis
On the dispute which occurred betwixt Bononcini and Handel.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 by Various
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