# Almira is produced at Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt as Handel’s first surviving opera Date: 1705 ## The fact On 8 January 1705 [Handel](/people/george-frideric-handel)’s opera Almira was produced at the Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. This Fact is that first surviving opera as a public theatre instrument, not the later Italian years and not a unique wage for the pit. It is one event. ## Context A named first opera is a knowledge-and-repertoire path. Do not treat Hamburg theatre economics as his personal harm to singers. George Frideric Handel’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. He arrived in Hamburg in 1703 as a violinist/harpsichordist. Mattheson is a colleague, including a 1704 duel that both survived; that quarrel is not this premiere. Reinhard Keiser’s house is the theatre. Conventional 8 January 1705 is the received first night. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Britannica and Handel Hendrix House independently date the Hamburg start and Almira. Official or archival record: Britannica — George Frideric Handel (https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance A produced opera is an education-and-repertoire path. Confidence high on the 1705 heading. ## What is established and what is not Established: Almira 1705 Hamburg production under his name. Not established: a complete 1705 box-office table. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by George Frideric Handel. They are not a public rating. George Frideric Handel did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Hamburg is not Haymarket. Split 1705 from 1711 Rinaldo. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of George Frideric Handel. ## People - George Frideric Handel: https://factrail.ai/people/george-frideric-handel ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://handelhendrix.org/discover/learn-about-handel - https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gfh-hamburg-almira-1705