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Part of this year's London Handel Festival, Apollo e Dafne and The Choice of Hercules are transported to the stage in a captivating production that blends music and dance.

The French premiere of the British composer's opera will be the undisputed high point of the Grande Boutique's season: a perfect confluence of music, staging and cast.

Dinis Sousa conducts the combined forces of the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir in L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

The bass truly got his needle working on preparing his latest role, the raging cyclops Polifemo. 

This Evangelist had just come straight from Golgotha, where he had witnessed events so momentous he was compelled to recount them at once.

Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina, performed at the Medici court in Florence in 1625, is said to be the first opera composed by a female composer.

Beeindruckendes Solisten-Trio und Instrumentalensemble unter Leitung Steven Devines sorgten für eine in vielerlei Hinsicht passende Premiere in und Rückkehr nach Malta.