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Giovanni Antonini leads a splendid orchestral performance of Cesti’s masterpiece, featuring an outstanding cast headlined by Carlo Vistoli.

Ravishing music and performances, a crazy G&S plot, but physicality that tends to distract in Constantine Costi's production.

Opera director András Almási-Toth’s whimsical updating of an early Baroque opera by Antonio Cesti switches the composer’s L'Orontea from 1656 to 2016.

A very naughty translation and some fine singing make for a delightfully comic evening of Cesti's recently rediscovered Orontea at Wigmore Hall. 

L'Orontea was premièred as turbulent Carneval entertainment in 1656. Now it is experiencing a fast-paced new staging as modern opera gag at Frankfurt Opera.