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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Gripping, alive and immediate, Opera North’s handsome production of Handel’s handsome oratorio, Susanna, performed in a fourth collaboration with The Phoenix Dance Company, is stunning. An orato ...
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Lady Luck was shining on us as we drove into the picturesque Somerset village of Dunster and straight into an empty parking space in front of the centuries old yarn market and right outside the histor ...
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Handel was 24 years old when Agrippina premiered in Venice in 1710. The opera is a popular mixture of gorgeous music, political satire and bedroom farce; and it’s very, very funny. David McVicar’s mod ...
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