offered here is the illustratred music cover of HANDEL'S ACIS AND GALATEA (without the music).
Acis and Galatea is a musical work by George
Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been
variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a
"little opera", an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of
Music as an oratorio.
What is the story of Acis and Galatea?
Galatea and
Acis used to mock
Polyphemus's songs of love for Galatea. Polyphemus caught them sleeping on a
grassy hill, and killed Acis by crushing him under a huge rock. Acis's blood
formed a stream beneath the rock. Galatea turned it into a river and named it
after him.
Emma Romer, afterwards Emma Almond (1814–1868) was a
leading British soprano of the 19th century, and for three years a theatre
manager and producer. A soprano singer, pupil of Sir George Smart, born
in 1814, made her first appearance at Covent Garden Oct. 16, 1830, as Clara in
'The Duenna.' She met with a favorable reception, and for several years filled
the position of prima donna at Covent Garden, the English Opera House, and
Drury Lane, with great credit. In 1852 she took the management of the Surrey
Theatre, with a company containing Miss Poole and other good singers, and
brought out a series of operas in English. Miss Romer was rarely heard in the
concert-room, but appeared at the Westminster Abbey Festival in 1834. She was
the original singer of the title-parts in Barnett's 'Mountain Sylph' and
'Fair Rosamond.' Her performance of Amina in the English version of Bellini's
'Sonnambula' was much admired.
John Brandard was an English lithographic artist. He
designed many hundred illustrated title-pages for sheet music.
M. & N. Hanhart was a London lithographic
publishing house founded in 1839 by Michael Hanhart and Nicholas Hanhart.