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Berenice| Ancient name for the Libyan city of Benghazi. |
Berenice (born AD 28)| Eldest daughter of Herod Agrippa I, ruler of Palestine. She was married at 13 years old to her uncle, Herod of Chalcis, but after his death in AD 48 she lived, not without suspicions of incest, with her brother, Herod Agrippa II. Married again, to the Cilician king Polemon, she soon deserted him and returned to her brother, with whom she was living in AD 60 when St Paul appeared before him (Acts 26). In 75 Berenice followed the future emperor Titus to Rome as his intended bride, but the match proved to be unpopular, and he dismissed her on his accession in 79. |
Berenice| Opera by Handel (libretto by A Salvi), first produced at Covent Garden, London, England, on 18 May 1737. The complex plot concerns the love problems of the Egyptian queen Berenice before her marriage to Alexander; politics, jealousy, and anger are happily resolved in the end. |
| There is also an earlier opera on the same subject by Giacomo Perti (libretto by A Salvi), first produced at the Villa Pratolino near Florence, Italy, in September 1709. |
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