| Saturday 06 June 2026 | 14:00 |
| Wolfgang Katschner | Conductor | |
| Eugenio Monti Colla | Director, Costume Designer | |
| Franco Citterio | Set Designer, Lighting Designer | |
| Lautten Compagney | ||
| Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla e Figli | ||
| Nicholas Tamagna | Countertenor | Rinaldo |
| Danae Kontora | Soprano | Armida |
| Johanna Rosa Falkinger | Soprano | Almirena |
| Johannes Wieners | Countertenor | Goffredo |
| Florian Götz | Baritone | Argante, A Christian Magician |
| Benno Schachtner | Countertenor | Eustazio |
When men literally become marionettes, it opens up a surprisingly new perspective on Handel’s world of heroes – a world in which Baroque music and ancestral puppet theatre meld together in a unique way. For the first time, the Handel Festival is showing all three productions resulting from the artistic collaboration between lautten compagney BERLIN and their artistic director Wolfgang Katschner and the Milan-based puppet theatre Carlo Colla & Figli. Rinaldo opens the trilogy with a visually stunning play on perspectives and forms that already thrilled audiences back in 2011. Here, the abstract marionette figure becomes a broken symbol of the complex “images of men” in Baroque opera. At the same time, this production presents a conscious antithesis to the simultaneous new production at Halle Opera. A rare occasion to witness directly how very differently Handel’s male characters can be approached.
Tickets:
80/65/30 €
