Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Johanna Wallroth (Bellezza) and ensemble

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Ed Lyon (Tempo), Anna Bonitatibus (Piacere), Johanna Wallroth (Bellezza), Raffaele Pe (Disinganno)

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Von Pia Maltri, 10 April 2026

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“an evening of refined musical and theatrical delights”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, am 7 April 2026

Händel, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Gianluca Capuano, Musikalische Leitung

Robert Carsen, Regie, Licht

Gideon Davey, Bühnenbild

Peter van Praet, Licht

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

rocafilm, Video

Johanna Wallroth, Bellezza

Anna Bonitatibus, Piacere

Raffaele Pe, Disinganno

Ed Lyon, Tempo

Rebecca Howell, Choreographie

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Pia Maltri

Pia first fell head over heels for opera when she was a teenager by listening to recordings of some of the great voices of the past: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus. She holds a degree in Italian Literature and she lives in Rome.

After three centuries, Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome