Lotario
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Lotario ("Lothair", HWV 26) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Antonio Salvi's Adelaide.The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 2 December 1729.
The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of some events in the life of Holy Roman Empress Adelaide of Italy.