PARTENOPE, Handel’s bitter, witty and ironic comedy of sexual intrigue, jealousy and rage, premiered in London in 1730. Four years earlier the erotic libretto had been deemed entirely unsuitable for t ...
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Warmth, colour, breezy humour and charming loveliness ride high in Opera North’s Falstaff, in which the fine, rounded baritone – and even more rounded belly – of main man Henry Waddington give f ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Partenope at London Coliseum In 1726 Owen Swinney, manager of the London opera, dismissed the erotic libretto for Handel’s Partenope as entirely unsuitable for the Royal A ...
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