This composer wrote the aria "Vieni, o figlio" for an opera about a king who loves the Byzantine emperor's daughter Teofane.
This composer wrote the aria "Vieni, o figlio" for an opera about a king who loves the Byzantine emperor's daughter Teofane. John Byram's epigram that coined the phrase "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" compared this man with his rival Giovanni Bononcini. This composer reused the melody of a sarabande from his first opera as the basis for an aria sung by a woman held captive by the Queen of Damascus in a Tasso-inspired opera. Another aria written by this composer of Ottone is sung by a man admiring the shade of a plane tree and, despite being marked "larghetto," is commonly known as the "Largo from" that opera. "Lascia ch'io piange" and "Ombra mai fu" are the most famous arias by, for 10 points, what German-British composer of the operas Serse and Rinaldo, the Music for the Royal Fireworks, and the oratorio Messiah?
This composer wrote the aria "Vieni, o figlio" for an opera about a king who loves the Byzantine emperor's daughter Teofane.
George Frideric Handel [or Georg Friederich  Handel]