In the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe (except France), attracting foreign composers such as Handel. Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his reform operas in the 1760s.
1 The average temperature in Amsterdam in August is very mild at 17.5 Â°C (63.5 Â°F). 2  Afternoons can be really warm with average high temperatures reaching 22 Â°C (71.6 Â°F).  Overnight temperatures are generally mild with an average low of 13 Â°C (55.4 Â°F).
Brouwersgracht, in the center of Amsterdam, on a September afternoon. Meteorologically, weather professionals consider September 1 to be the start of fall or autumn, but for you and I it starts â in Holland at least â on either the 22nd or 23rd of September. In 2013, autumn officially begins on September 22. But in the Netherlands September tends to turn into somewhat of an extension of summer. More often than not September â or at least the first three weeks of the month â has many days of summer-like weather with on average of 145 hours of sunshine for the whole month. Then again, there may also be some hail- and thunder storms, especially in the coastal areas â and then particularly at night.