Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno

Everything beautiful fades. Handel, with this first great moral allegory, approaches a vibrant and invisible battle of the human soul. Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno , premiered in Rome in 1707, is a vast canvas that reflects on vanity: Youth, Beauty, Time, and Disillusion confront one another in a dialogue of splendours and shadows that reveals that the struggle between the ephemeral and the eternal remains one of the essential drives of the human being.