LIBRETTO FOR HANDEL: STANDARDS AND EFFECT
Tatiana Belova “...If your friend wants to send several librettos, he needs to know that in England they don’t like a lot of recitatives, and there should be at least thirty arias and at least one duet, distributed over three acts. The theme may be open, sensitive, heroic, Roman, Greek or even Persian, but in no case Gothic or Lombard.