Crossword-Solution: ARIOSTI 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Mainwaring asserts that in 1698 he went to Berlin, where he was presented to the Electress Sophia Charlotte and made the acquaintance of Ariosti and Giovanni Battista Buononcini, two famous Italian opera composers whom he was to encounter again, in London, many years later.

The directors engaged Nicolo Haym and Paolo Rolli as poets to provide libretti; for the music they naturally secured Handel, but also invited Buononcini over from Rome, and Attilio Ariosti from Berlin.

The season of 1723 began in November with Buononcini's _Farnace_ and Handel's _Ottone_; in January 1724 a new opera, _Vespasiano_, by Attilio Ariosti, was given, and ran for nine successive nights.

Ariosti was never a very troublesome rival to Handel; he was a man of amiable character, and apparently quite content to remain aloof from the party politics of the opera-house.

Another masterpiece of Handel's, _Tamerlano_, inaugurated the autumn season of 1724 in October; in December appeared Ariosti's _Artaserse_, in January _Giulio Cesare_ held the stage till the production of another Handel opera, _Rodelinda_, which came out on February 13, and ran for thirteen nights.