What is "oreste"

Oreste ("Orestes", HWV A11, HG 48/102) is an opera by George Frideric Handel in three acts. The libretto was anonymously adapted from Giangualberto Barlocci’s L’Oreste (1723, Rome), which was in turn adapted from Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris.

The opera is a pasticcio ( pastiche), meaning that the music of the arias was assembled from earlier works, mainly other operas and cantatas also by Handel. The recitatives and parts of the dances are the only parts composed specifically for this work. Handel had put together similar works before, fitting the music of pre-existent arias to new words, but this was the first time he had made an opera in this way using entirely his own music. He assembled a collection of his arias from the previous years, ranging from Agrippina of 1709 to Sosarme of 1732, binding the pre-existent music seamlessly together with the newly-written recitatives to create a new musical drama.

The opera is in Italian, although it was written and performed in England. The lead role was written for the castrato Giovanni Carestini. It is now performed by either a countertenor or soprano.

Oreste is an Italian masculine given name. It is derived from the Orestes, who in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. People with the name Oreste include:

• Oreste Albertini (1887–1953), Italian painter
• Oreste Arpè (1889–1977), Italian wrestler, Olympic competitor
• Oreste Barale (also known as Barale III) (1904–1982), Italian footballer
• Oreste Baratieri (1841–1901), Italian general and governor of Eritrea
• Oreste Benatti (1909-????), Italian footballer
• Oreste Benzi (1925–2007), Italian Catholic priest
• Oreste Biancoli (1897–1971), Italian screenwriter and film director
• Oreste Bilancia (1881–1945), Italian actor
• Oreste Candi (1865–1938), Italian luthier
• Oreste Capuzzo (1908–1985), Italian gymnast and Olympic competitor
• Oreste Carpi (1921–2008), Italian painter, engraver and ceramist
• Oreste Cioni (1913-1968), Italian footballer
• Oreste Conte (1919–1956), Italian racing cyclist
• Oreste Giorgi (1856–1924), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Oreste Grossi (1912–2008), Italian rower and Olympic medal winner
• Oreste Kirkop (1923-1998), Maltese opera singer
• Oreste Lionello (1927–2009), Italian actor and voice dubbing artist
• Oreste Marrero (born 1969), Puerto Rican baseball player
• Oreste Moricca (1891–1984), Italian fencer and Olympic medalist
• Oreste Perri (born 1951), Italian sprint canoer, politician and Olympic competitor
• Oreste Piccioni (1915-2002), Italian-born American physicist
• Oreste Pinto (1889–1961), Dutch counterintelligence officer, Lieutenant colonel and author
• Oreste Piro (born 1954), Argentinian-born Spanish dynamical systems theorist and biophysicist
• Oreste Puliti (1891–1958), Italian fencer and Olympic medalist
• Oreste Ramos (Born ????), Puerto Rican politician
• Oreste Ravanello (1871–1938), Italian composer and organist
• Oreste Recchione (1841– 1904), Italian painter
• Orestes Rodríguez (born 1989), Cuban sprinter and Olympic competitor
• Oreste Riva (1860–1936), Italian composer
• Oreste Rizzini (1940– 2008), Italian actor and voice dubbing artist
• Oreste Scalzone (born 1947), Italian Marxist intellectual and political activist
• Oreste Silvestri (1858-1936), Italian painter
• Oreste Sindici (1828–1904), Italian-born Colombian musician and composer
• Oreste Squinobal (1943-2004), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer
• Oreste Tescari (born c. 1923), Italian rugby player
• Oreste Vaccari (1886-1980), Italian Orientalist and linguist
• Oreste Zamor (1861–1915), Haitian politician, former President of Haiti