Performer: Early Opera Company Orchestra

The Royal Opera presents another Handel rarity for its Jette Parker Artists in the Linbury Theatre, the but action thriller approach is ill-suited to the ancient tale. 

A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.

An especially adapted version of Purcell's Fairy Queen, reworked by Timothy Nelson, inspires an exceptional reading from a talented young cast at Iford.