[1] It was probably directed from the harpsichord by Christoph Graupner and took place most likely after Handel's completion of his first Italian opera, Rodrigo.

Keiser inserted a play in low German, called die lustige Hochzeit, into the opera, afraid that the audience would get tired otherwise.

The thanksgiving festival in honor of the god Phoebus (Apollo) takes place in a beautiful landscape.

Daphne, Florindo's lover and already promised to him, meets Phoebus on the sidelines of the festival, and the son of Zeus falls in love with the daughter of the river god Pineus.

Daphne, who has come closer, sees her sadness, and through this Alfirena learns that the planned wedding is to take place the next morning.

In the forge of the fire god Vulcanus, he receives Cupid and both agree not to support Phoebus' love for the still resisting Daphne.

Tyrsis comes along and is amazed at the protective care, but also fears negative effects, which eventually go so far that Damon suspects a fly on Lycoris' face is a transformed Jupiter who wants to cool his "hot heat".

Damon tries in vain to catch the fly with his hand, instead he accidentally hits Lycoris, who jumps up angrily, in the face.

Handel himself had an excellent reference library of his own works since his stay in Italy, so that if he had ever taken a copy with him, these scores would probably have been preserved for us in this way.

However, the statement of the singer Johann Konrad Dreyer, who was co-tenant of the opera house after Keiser's departure (September 1706) and was therefore responsible for its continued operation, about the difficulties of restarting work does not shed a good light on the safe storage of the sheet music at the opera house.

The twelve instrumental movements (HWV 352–354) in the Aylesford Collection are probably also fragments of the two lost operas.

They were created around 1728 by Handel's junior secretary, the harpsichordist Johann Christoph Schmidt Jr., and copied into an anthology by an anonymous writer.